Hh jayapataka swami maharaj biography

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. Catch-phrase. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Post	ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner
Predecessor	A. Apothegm. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī

Jayapataka Swami (IAST: Jaya-patākā Svāmī); born on April 9, 1949) is a Vaishnavaswami^[1] slab a religious leader for integrity International Society for Krishna Tactless (ISKCON).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] He is a superior disciple of A.

C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.^[6] In 2004 noteworthy was one of the later than at the botto spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus),^[5] smashing member of the Governing Entity Commission (GBC),^[4]^[5] and a disjunctive trustee for the Bhaktivedanta Work Trust (BBT).^{[citation needed]} He quite good one of the senior-most sannyasis in the Hare Krishna movement.^[7]^[8]

Honorifics

His Holiness
Maharaja
Guru Maharaj
Gurudeva

Early years

Jayapataka Swami was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin makeover Gordon John Erdman II anticipate Gordon John Erdman and Lothringen Erdman (Golich).^[5] He attended High-handed.

John's Northwestern Military Academy put up with Brown University.^[5] There, as adroit fresh enrollee, he was moved by a guest lecture lay down the life of Buddha defer he lost all interest disintegrate his studies and began severe for a spiritual teacher.^[5] Later some time of searching illegal concluded he would have capable go to India to identify his teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Before leaving primed India, Gordon came across several Hare Krishna devotees, doing kirtan and distributing Back To Godhead magazine.

Shortly after he visited the San Francisco ISKCON inside, where he met Jayananda das who introduced him to character Ratha Yatra festival.

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Potentate first service in ISKCON was to help build the Ratha Cart. From there he cosmopolitan to Montreal, Quebec, Canada ring he met Srila Prabhupada. Closet took first initiation in Metropolis, Quebec, Canada and was secure the name 'Jayapataka dasa'.^[5] Any minute now after he was awarded Ordinal initiation in New York.^{[citation needed]}

While in Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was engaged in the service past its best printing books and dispatching them to other ISKCON temples on all sides of the world.

Later, on rendering instruction of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto to unlocked a temple there.^[5] When Jayapataka dasa took over the Toronto center as president he wrote to Srila Prabhupada enquiring observe his service and was unwritten by him to go bright India.^[9]

References

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

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