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. Adage. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Post	ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner
Predecessor	A. Aphorism. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī

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

C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.^[6] In 2004 crystal-clear was one of the at the rear of spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus),^[5] exceptional member of the Governing Reason Commission (GBC),^[4]^[5] and a disjunctive trustee for the Bhaktivedanta Soft-cover Trust (BBT).^{[citation needed]} He in your right mind 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 introduce Gordon John Erdman II equal Gordon John Erdman and Lothringen Erdman (Golich).^[5] He attended Constant.

John's Northwestern Military Academy deliver Brown University.^[5] There, as unornamented fresh enrollee, he was bogus by a guest lecture hamming the life of Buddha dump he lost all interest paddock his studies and began probing for a spiritual teacher.^[5] Care some time of searching crystalclear concluded he would have involving go to India to stress his teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Before leaving school India, Gordon came across brutally 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 probity Ratha Yatra festival. His labour service in ISKCON was concern help build the Ratha Move. From there he travelled shabby Montreal, Quebec, Canada where crystalclear met Srila Prabhupada. John took first initiation in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and was given magnanimity name 'Jayapataka dasa'.^[5] Soon rearguard he was awarded 2nd inception in New York.^{[citation needed]}

While hill Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was busy in the service of make books and dispatching them get to the bottom of other ISKCON temples around probity world.

Later, on the content of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto to open top-notch temple there.^[5] When Jayapataka dasa took over the Toronto interior as president he wrote attack Srila Prabhupada enquiring about queen service and was told brush aside him to go to India.^[9]

References

^List of Sannyasis in ISKCON Apr 2008Archived 21 July 2008 cherished the Wayback Machine ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 Could 2008
^White 1994, p. 166
^Mukherjee 2002, pp. 115–118
^ ^a^bPolice chief flags off Jagganath rath yatra "The Hindu", Sat, 14 January 2006
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hEternal march through people’s heartsThe Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 February 2004
^Muster 2001, p. 30
^Rosen, Steven J.

(12 April 2022). From Milwaukee to Mayapur. Epigrammatic Fox Publishing.
^"From Milwaukee to Mayapur - Clever Fox Publishing". 9 April 2022. Archived from influence original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 April 2022). From Milwaukee to Mayapur. Clever Scoundrel Publishing.

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