Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Ji

Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Ji

Subject – Important personalities

Context– PM to release a special commemorative coin on the occasion of 125th Birth Anniversary of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Ji on 1st September.

Concept –

• Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami or Srila Prabhupada, born Abhay Charan De, was an Indian spiritual teacher and the founder-acharya (preceptor) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna movement”.
• Members of the ISKCON movement view Bhaktivedanta Swami as a representative and messenger of Krishna Chaitanya.
• A number of memorial samadhis or shrines to Bhaktivedanta Swami were constructed by the members of ISKCON in his remembrance, the largest being in Mayapur and Vrindavan India as well as the larger sized temples in the United States.
• Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold was designed and constructed by devotees of the New Vrindavan community and dedicated on 2 September 1979.
• During the final twelve years of his life, Bhaktivedanta Swami translated over sixty volumes of classic Hindu scriptures (e.g. Bhagavad Gita, Chaitanya Charitamrita and SrimadBhagavatam) into the English language.
• Beginning his public preaching mission in India, he founded the League of Devotees in Jhansi in 1953.
• To promote the vedic education system within the modern Indian education structure, he introduced a chain of Gurukul in various part of India. The Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and International School is one of the most successful schools in the list.
• He has been described as a charismatic leader who was successful in acquiring followers in many countries including the United States, Europe and India.
• His mission was to propagate throughout the world Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a school of Vaishnavite Hinduism that had been taught to him by his guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvat.