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Disciples of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is widely regarded as the foremost Vedic scholar, translator, and teacher of the modern era. He is especially respected as the worldโs most prominent contemporary authority on bhakti-yoga, devotional service to the Supreme Person, Krishna, as taught by the ancient Vedic writings of India. He is also the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada, as heโs known to his followers, translated and commented on over eighty volumes of the Vedasโ most important sacred bhakti texts, including the Bhagavad-gitaโa concise handbook for understanding the purpose and goal of human lifeโand the multi- volume Srimad-Bhagavatamโan epic biography of Krishna, Krishnaโs avatars, and His many devotees throughout the history of the universe.
Srila Prabhupadaโs own spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, was the leading proponent of Krishna consciousness in India during the early part of the twentieth century. He specifically taught the philosophy of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the divine avatar who revived Krishna-bhakti all over India in the 1500s. When Srila Bhaktisiddhanta first met the young man later known as Srila Prabhupada โ in Calcutta in 1922 โ he told him to preach Chaitanya Mahaprabhuโs message of Krishna consciousness throughout the English-speaking world.
After forty years of struggling within India to carry out his guruโs order, while maintaining family and business responsibilities, Srila Prabhupada boarded a steamship bound from Calcutta to New York City in 1965. At age sixty-nine, with forty rupees and a trunk of his Bhagavatam commentaries โ the first ever in English โ his aim was to introduce โIndiaโs message of peace and goodwillโ to the western world. During the last twelve years of his life, Srila Prabhupada would inspire thousands of Westerners and Indians to devote their lives to Krishna consciousness, launching one of the fastest-growing spiritual movements in the history of the world.
Many scholars and professors who met him and became familiar with his work continue to use Srila Prabhupadaโs books as standard university texts, and regard him as a genuine, realized, and scholarly teacher of bhakti. His authoritative yet down-to-earth presentation of Vedas continues to inspire a worldwide audience.
With the help of his students, he founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). ISKCON is popularly known as the โHare Krishnaโ movement, due to its membersโ widespread practice of chanting the Hare Krishna mantra in public. Srila Prabhupada intended ISKCON to facilitate the association and education of bhakti-yoga practitioners, and his followers continue to spread that mission.
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