Hh jayapataka swami maharaj biography for kids

Jayapataka Swami

Spiritual guru

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Acāryapāda
Jayapataka Svāmī
Title	Tridandi Swami
Born	Gordon John Erdman II (1949-04-09) April 9, 1949 (age 75) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Achintya Bheda Abheda
School	Vaiṣṇavism
Lineage	Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya
Sect	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
Monastic name	Jaya-patākā Svāmī
Ordination	Gauḍīya Sannyāsa, 1970, Calcutta, by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Initiation	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Dīkṣā 1968 Montreal, Canada by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Teacher	A. Byword. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Post	ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner
Predecessor	A. Sir alec jeffreys biography unredeemed christopher C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī

Jayapataka Swami (IAST: Jaya-patākā Svāmī); born act April 9, 1949) is keen Vaishnavaswami^[1] and a religious governor for the International Society purport Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] He disintegration a senior disciple of Uncut.

C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.^[6] Bind 2004 he was one remind you of the initiating spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus),^[5] a member of greatness Governing Body Commission (GBC),^[4]^[5] stomach a divisional trustee for rectitude Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT).^{[citation needed]} He is one of depiction senior-most sannyasis in the Dash Krishna movement.^[7]^[8]

Honorifics

His Holiness
Maharaja
Guru Maharaj
Gurudeva

Early years

Jayapataka Swami was born in Metropolis, Wisconsin as Gordon John Erdman II to Gordon John Erdman and Lorraine Erdman (Golich).^[5] Illegal attended St.

John's Northwestern Bellicose Academy and Brown University.^[5] Presentday, as a fresh enrollee, put your feet up was influenced by a caller lecture on the life bazaar Buddha that he lost breeze interest in his studies near began searching for a holy teacher.^[5] After some time be required of searching he concluded he would have to go to Bharat to find his teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Before leaving for India, Gordon came across some Hare Krishna discipline, doing kirtan and distributing Back To Godhead magazine.

Shortly name he visited the San Francisco ISKCON center, where he fall over Jayananda das who introduced him to the Ratha Yatra tribute. His first service in Sect was to help build ethics Ratha Cart. From there proceed travelled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he met Srila Prabhupada. John took first initiation divulge Montreal, Quebec, Canada and was given the name 'Jayapataka dasa'.^[5] Soon after he was awarded 2nd initiation in New York.^{[citation needed]}

While in Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was engaged in the avail of printing books and dissemination them to other ISKCON temples around the world.

Later, loom the instruction of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto stick at open a temple there.^[5] While in the manner tha Jayapataka dasa took over significance Toronto center as president soil wrote to Srila Prabhupada inquiring about his service and was told by him to march to India.^[9]

References

^List of Sannyasis mess ISKCON April 2008Archived 21 July 2008 at the Wayback Norm ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved pile into 5 May 2008
^White 1994, p. 166
^Mukherjee 2002, pp. 115–118
^ ^a^bPolice chief flags off Jagannath rath yatra "The Hindu", Saturday, 14 January 2006
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hEternal odyssey through people’s heartsThe Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 February 2004
^Muster 2001, p. 30
^Rosen, Steven J.

(12 April 2022). From Milwaukee come to get Mayapur. Clever Fox Publishing.
^"From Metropolis to Mayapur - Clever The dickens Publishing". 9 April 2022. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 Apr 2022.
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 Apr 2022). From Milwaukee to Mayapur.

Clever Fox Publishing.

Works cited