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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 renamed
             Iläpati Däsa.

             From 1977 to 1979 Iläpati Däsa was based in India, mainly
             distributing Çréla Prabhupäda’s books throughout West Bengal.
             In the following ten years, he helped pioneer ISkcoN activities
             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 been preaching Kåñëa consciousness mostly
             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 writes extensively on Kåñëa  conscious
             topics. His books have been translated into over twenty
             languages, with more than one and a half million in print.

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














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