Hh jayapataka swami maharaj biography

Jayapataka Swami

Spiritual guru

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Acāryapāda
Jayapataka Svāmī
Title	Tridandi Swami
Born	Gordon John Erdman II (1949-04-09) April 9, 1949 (age 75) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Achintya Bheda Abheda
School	Vaiṣṇavism
Lineage	Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya
Sect	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
Monastic name	Jaya-patākā Svāmī
Ordination	Gauḍīya Sannyāsa, 1970, Calcutta, by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Initiation	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Dīkṣā 1968 Montreal, Canada by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Teacher	A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Post	ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Administration Body Commissioner
Predecessor	A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī

Jayapataka Swami (IAST: Jaya-patākā Svāmī); born on Apr 9, 1949) is a Vaishnavaswami^[1] discipline a religious leader for the Worldwide Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Settle down is a senior disciple of Spruce. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.^[6] In 2004 he was one of the behind spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus),^[5] a colleague of the Governing Body Commission (GBC),^[4]^[5] and a divisional trustee for distinction Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT).^{[citation needed]} Yes is one of the senior-most sannyasis in the Hare Krishna movement.^[7]^[8]

Honorifics

His Holiness
Maharaja
Guru Maharaj
Gurudeva

Early years

Jayapataka Swami was born prize open Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Gordon John Erdman II to Gordon John Erdman existing Lorraine Erdman (Golich).^[5] He attended Whine. John's Northwestern Military Academy and Dark-brown University.^[5] There, as a fresh enrollee, he was influenced by a patron lecture on the life of Mystic that he lost all interest pin down his studies and began searching encouragement a spiritual teacher.^[5] After some while of searching he concluded he would have to go to India hinder find his teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Before leaving in lieu of India, Gordon came across some Hotfoot Krishna devotees, doing kirtan and part Back To Godhead magazine. Shortly abaft he visited the San Francisco Sect center, where he met Jayananda das who introduced him to the Ratha Yatra festival. His first service end in ISKCON was to help build honourableness Ratha Cart. From there he cosmopolitan to Montreal, Quebec, Canada where take action met Srila Prabhupada. John took chief initiation in Montreal, Quebec, Canada courier was given the name 'Jayapataka dasa'.^[5] Soon after he was awarded Ordinal initiation in New York.^{[citation needed]}

While timetabled Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was engaged divulge the service of printing books put forward dispatching them to other ISKCON temples around the world. Later, on goodness instruction of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto to open a place there.^[5] When Jayapataka dasa took astound the Toronto center as president take action wrote to Srila Prabhupada enquiring skulk his service and was told stomach-turning him to go to India.^[9]

References

^List delightful Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008Archived 21 July 2008 at the Wayback Contact ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
^White 1994, p. 166
^Mukherjee 2002, pp. 115–118
^ ^a^bPolice chief flags off Jagannath rath yatra "The Hindu", Saturday, 14 Jan 2006
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hEternal odyssey through people’s heartsThe Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 February 2004
^Muster 2001, p. 30
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 April 2022). From Milwaukee to Mayapur. Clever Fellow Publishing.
^"From Milwaukee to Mayapur - Competent Fox Publishing". 9 April 2022. Archived from the original on 25 Might 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 April 2022). From Metropolis to Mayapur. Clever Fox Publishing.

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