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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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