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H.D. GOSWAMI




                                                                                                            As one of the most senior and respected spiritual

                                                                                                            leaders of the International Society for Krishna

                                                                                                            Consciousness (ISKCON), Hridayananda das Goswami

                                                                                                            (Howard
                                                                                                                  J. Resnick, Ph.D.) is an early pioneer and

                                                                                                            renowned teacher of bhakti yoga in the Western world.

                                                                                                            At the forefront of contemporary religious dialogue, he

                                                                                                            is celebrated for his unique ability to adapt the wisdom

                                                                                                            of ancient Indian philosophy into teachings that are

                                                                                                            comprehensible for Western audiences.


                                                                                                            Affectionately known as “Acharyadeva” by his students,

                                                                                                            H.D. Goswami (born November 5, 1948) grew up in Los

                                                                                                            Angeles, California an began his studies at the University

                                                                                                            of California, Berkeley where he participated in the

                                                                                                            political and cultural movements of the late sixties. In

                                                                                                            1969, after attending a campus lecture delivered by

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON, he began studying the philosophical literature of Prabhupada’s

movement, and in September 1969, took up the monastic practice of bhakti-yoga in the Prabhupada’s Berkeley ISKCON center. In

1970, he was formally initiated into the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. During the next four years, he served as president of bhakti-yoga

centers in Gainesville, Florida and Houston, and lectured on university campuses throughout North America. In 1974, Prabhupada asked him

to assume responsibility for Latin America and in the next several years, he opened dozens of bhakti-yoga centers in over a dozen countries,

and organized the leading publishing house of Indian spiritual literature in Spanish and Portuguese. In 1982, he took responsibility for

ISKCON's many centers in Florida, and in 1987 in Italy and Greece. Around this time, together with a team he formed, he completed

Prabhupada’s epic translation and commentary on the Bhagavata-purana.




Meanwhile, H.D.Goswami had returned to the University of California in 1991 as a student of World Religions. After graduating, he continued

his studies at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit & Indian Studies in 1996. Having published articles with Harvard

University Press, University of California Press, and Columbia University Press, he recently published his dissertation as the ninety-first

volume of the prestigious Harvard Oriental Series. He has taught at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of Florida, and

lectured at many dozens of universities in North and South America, Europe, and India.


Fluent in seven languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Sanskrit), Resnick recently completed the literal

translation of his popular Complete Guide to the Bhagavad-gita with Literal Translation, and published Quest forJustice, an explanation of

the epic Maha-bharata. He is now currently working on a trilogy of the Maha-bharata.



Around 2013, he founded Krishna West to help facilitate ISKCON’s outreach to Western audiences. Krishna West now has centers

throughout the world.




KRISHNA WEST
Making Bhakti-yoga Easy, Re         vant and Enjoyable for Western People




Founded by H.D.Goswami, Krishna West is a spiritual project that serves the world through the teaching and practice of advanced

spiritual knowledge found in ancient texts such as Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-bhagavatam. As one of the oldest, most cherished

treatises on the philosophy and practice of yoga, Bhagavad-gita explains that we are all eternal spiritual beings. We have always

existed and always will exist. Only our temporary body is born and dies. Compelled by the reactions to our worldly actions (karma)

we wander through many lives until we clearly grasp our eternal identity as souls, and our loving relationship with an infinitely

beautiful, all-knowing, and ever youthful God, Krishna. Krishna West teaches the timeless, non-sectarian path of bhakti-yoga,

devotion to God and all souls. Bhagavad-gita describes bhakti-yoga as the highest stage of spiritual yoga.


Krishna West is part of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the “Hare Krishna Movement,” founded by A. C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. We seek to serve the Western world with intelligent, appropriate, non-sectarian spiritual activism

that powerfully addresses, with spiritual wisdom, issues of social and economic justice, the global environment, and ultimate

liberation. Our vision, that every living being is an eternal part of God and thus worthy of our love, forms the basis of our approach to

justice, the environment, and enlightenment.




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 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness




 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

 (ISKCON) and the world’s foremost teacher of Krishna Bhakti in the 20th century.




  ISKCON
 The International Society for Krishna Consciousness




 The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), otherwise known as the Hare Krishna movement, includes five hundred

 major centers, temples and rural communities, nearly one hundred affilated vegetarian restaurants, thousands of namahattas or local

 meeting groups, a wide variety of community projects, and millions of congregational members worldwide.

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