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About Śrīla Prabhupāda
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
appeared in this world in 1896 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
In 1922, after completing college, he first met his guru, Śrīla
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura — a prominent religious
scholar and the founder of the Gauḍīya Maṭha spiritual
institution — who entreated him to dedicate his life to
broadcasting Vedic knowledge in the English language. Śrīla
Prabhupāda became his follower and, in 1933, was formally
initiated as his disciple.
In the following years, Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote a commentary
on the Bhagavad-gītā, rendered assistance to the Gauḍīya Maṭha,
and in 1944 started Back to Godhead, an English fortnightly
magazine. Single-handedly, he edited it, typed the manuscripts,
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