The Mantra, The Movement & The Swami that Started it All...
Like Never Before, I was excited to Visit the Local Temple. There, I sticked to my Future Guru. He attracted me with His Modesty, Intelligence & Dedication to His, Spiritual Master. He spoke about Him with such an Energy & Love that, I cannot describe. He said: "A.C.Bhaktivedantha Swami Prabhupada".
I heard about this person much previously and although, I heard His story & Incredible Success, He did, it never touched my heart, that much as now. That Man, according to the Wish of His Spiritual Master went in the Western World to Promote the Science of God with Only few dollars & in few years He opened up 108 Temples all Around the World.
That was impressive before but now, this fact caught my full attention. I said to myself: "A.C.Bhaktivedantha Swami Prabhupad was not an Ordinary Man, He was Miracle Man, Man from other Planet when He succeded doing that. He was even more than Saint.
This is His Short Biography to attach You more for This Great Personality, which Activities cannot be simply explained by anybody but by His Disciples.
Autobiography - Source: Krishna.com
Biography of Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.
At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language. In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started an English fortnightly magazine.
Recognizing Srila Prabhupada's philosophical learning and devotion, the Gaudiya Vaisnava Society honored him in 1947 with the title "Bhaktivedanta." In 1950, at the age of fifty-four, Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, and four years later he adopted the vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more time to his studies and writing. Srila Prabhupada traveled to the holy city of Vrndavana, where he lived in very humble circumstances in the historic medieval temple of Radha-Damodara. There he engaged for several years in deep study and writing. He accepted the renounced order of life (sannyasa) in 1959. At Radha-Damodara, Srila Prabhupada began work on his life's masterpiece: a multivolume translation and commentary on the 18,000-verse Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). He also wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets.
Source: Krishna.com
( To Be Continued )
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