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The Author


           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
           Prabhupāda, the founder-ācārya  of  ISKCON, and renamed
           Ilāpati Dāsa.

           From 1977 to 1979, Ilāpati Dāsa was based in India, mostly
           traveling in West Bengal distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda’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 sannyāsa, receiving the
           name Bhakti Vikāsa Swami, and again made his base in India.
           Since then he has preached Kṛṣṇa 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 Vikāsa Swami writes extensively on Kṛṣṇa conscious
           topics. His books have been translated into over twenty
           languages,  with  more  than  one  and  a  half  million  in  print.
           Mothers and Masters is his seventeenth book.

           Additionally, he is involved in developing several gurukulas
           and also Vedic rural projects based on simple living and high
           thinking.














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