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About Bhakti Vikäsa Swami
The author was born in Britain in 1957 and
joined iskcon in London in 1975. Later that year he
was formally accepted as a disciple of His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, the founder-
äcärya of iskcon, and named Iläpati däsa.
From 1977 to 1979 Iläpati däsa was based in India,
mostly travelling in West Bengal distributing Çréla
Prabhupäda’s books. He spent the following ten years
helping to pioneer iskcon’s preaching in Bangladesh,
Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
In 1989 he was granted the order of sannyäsa,
receiving the name Bhakti Vikäsa Swami, and again
made his base in India. Since then he has preached
Kåñëa consciousness throughout the subcontinent,
lecturing in English, Hindi, and Bengali. He also
spends a few months each year preaching in the West.
His television lectures in Hindi have reached millions
worldwide.
Bhakti Vikäsa Swami has written fourteen books,
which have been translated into over twenty languages,
with more than seven hundred thousand in print.
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