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A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was born Abhay Charan De, on the 1 September 1896, in Calcutta.

In 1922 he met His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Thakur, Founder of Gaudiya Math, who requested Abhay to broadcast Vedic knowledge in the English medium.

In 1933, at Allahabad, Abhay was formally initiated and made it his life ambition to expound the Vedic conclusion that real freedom means liberation from the miseries of material life : birth, death, old age and disease, a state that can be permanently attained by awakening one’s pure love for God, Krishna-prema or Krishna-bhakti.

In the ensuing years Abhay Charanaravinda (his initiated name), wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita. In 1944 he started the Back to Godhead magazine, which to this day is being continued by his disciples.

In recognition of his philosophical knowledge and devotion the Gaudiya Vaishnava Society honored him with the title Bhaktivedanta in 1947. Following his retirement from married life, A.C. Bhaktivedanta traveled to Vrindavan where he lived in the humble surrounding of the Radha Damodar temple. In 1959 he took the sannyasa order of life and, as A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, started his work on the multi-volume translation and commentary of the 18,000 verse Srimad Bhagavatam. In 1965, at the age of 69, when ordinary persons are thinking of retirement, he went to the United States to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master and founded ISKCON.

He brought to the West the divine teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu who taught the public glorification of Hare Krishna mantra. Srila Prabhupada, (as he was affectionately called by his followers), taught on a non-sectarian level that every living being is an eternal servant of Lord Krishna with a dormant natural propensity to experience the eternal bliss of pure love of God.

Srila Prabhupada Chronology

1954
Left family, vanaprastha
1956
Vrindavan residence, Vamsi Gopal temple
1959
Begins translating Srimad Bhagavatam in Delhi
July
Moves upstairs Radha-Damodara temple
Sept. 17
Takes sannyasa, renounced order of life
1896
Fall Publishes first book, paperback Easy Journey to Other Planets
July
Moves into downstairs rooms at Radha-Damodara
Sept.
Publishes Volume one, Srimad Bhagavatam in Delhi
1963
Publishes volume two Srimad Bhagavatam
1964
Publishes volume three Srimad Bhagavatam
1965
Leaves Calcutta on Jaladuta bound for America
1967
Returns to Radha-Damodara
1971
Visits Radha-Damodara and Vrindavan with forty disciples
1972
Kartik at Radha-Damodara, delivers famous Nectar of Devotion Lectures
1977
Enters the eternal lila of Radha and Krishna in Goloka Vrindavan
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