Krishnabookspov
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Prabhupāda: Your Ever Well-Wisher tells the inspiring story of a remarkable man and his remarkable achievement. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda – philosopher, scholar, religious leader, author – founded the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement in 1966, effectively transplanting India’s spiritual culture of bhakti-yoga from India to America. In his seventies and with almost superhuman drive, Prabhupāda took his Hare Kṛṣṇa movement and its iconic chant around the world and then back to India, establishing centers and ashrams wherever he went and writing over sixty books.
Drawing on Prabhupāda’s own words and on numerous interviews with those who knew him both in India and the West, Prabhupāda emerges as a vital and earnest ambassador of spiritual India whose teachings continue to influence spiritual culture today.
Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami was born on December 6, 1939. In July 1966, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, and he became his initiated disciple in September of that year. Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami began contributing articles to /"Back to Godhead"/, the magazine of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, and later became its editor in chief. In August 1967 he went to Boston to establish the first ISKCON center there.
Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami was one of the original members selected by Śrīla Prabhupāda to form the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON in 1970. He remained as president of Boston ISKCON until 1971, when he moved to Dallas and became headmaster of the /gurukula/, the first ISKCON school for children.
In May 1972, on the appearance day of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, he was awarded the /sannyāsa/ (renounced) order by His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda and began traveling across the United States, lecturing in colleges and universities. In January 1974 he was called by Śrīla Prabhupāda to become his personal secretary and to travel with him through India and Europe. In 1976 he published /"Readings in Vedic Literature"/, a concise account of the Vedic tradition. The volume is now being studied at various universities. In 1977 Śrīla Prabhupāda ordered him to accept the duties of initiating guru, along with ten other senior disciples. In addition to his duties as a Governing Body Commissioner and an initiating guru, he has written many books, including the multivolume /"Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta"/.
Michael Scherer has over twenty years' experience narrating books and magazines for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress, with more than five hundred titles completed. He is also a radio broadcaster in the Washington, DC, area, with extensive experience in audiobook production.