Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

Satsvarupa Goswami the (December 6, 1939 in New York) ( Devanagari: सत्स्वरूप दास गोस्वामी, Satsvarupa gosvämé ) is a senior disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the better the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON ) in the West as Hare Krishna movement known founded. In his official role as a writer, poet and artist Satsvarupa Goswami is the author of the authorized biography of Bhaktivedanta Swami Pabhupada, Srila Pabhupada - lilamrita.

Satsvarupa Goswami was one of the eleven students who were selected to be initiating after the death of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada gurus in ISKCON. Satsvarupa Goswami is one of the first few Westerners who were initiated by Prabhupada in September 1966.

Meanwhile, he has been recognized as one of the most prolific Vaishnava writer and poet. While he traveled, talks about Krishna consciousness held and students taught, he published more than 100 books, the foot on the sacred writings of Vaishnava poems, memoirs, novels and studies include.

In recent years, he has created hundreds of paintings, drawings and sculptures, which represent an attempt to capture its recess in the culture of Krishna consciousness and express.

Early years

He was born as the older of the two children of Catholic parents on Staten Iceland in New York and was baptized Steven. His education began in a public high school in the vicinity. Then he enrolled in Brooklyn College, where he experienced an intellectual revolution, which meant that he began to question his Catholic values ​​.:

" Once I started to study, I experienced an intellectual revolution. Any regiöse feeling that I had received from my mother was supplanted by my university lecturers, the die-hard Marxists were Americans from the 30s. They taught me their intellectual and aesthetic views and did my research of religion than from sentimentality. One of them claimed that theology could never satisfactorily explain why there is evil in the world. I was attracted to their philosophy, because my parents were not intellectuals and had never caught my intellectual ability, while my lecturers revealed to me a whole new world. I developed a strong desire to study philosophy and literature. I came to the personal conclusion that the church was hypocritical: in the entrance of our church, the priest raffled regular bottles of spirits ( they called them "Joy baskets "). I was dissatisfied with the Catholic Church because they did not provide any answers to my questions. "

Works

  • Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Vol 1-2. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Los Angeles, Calif. 1980-82, 2002, ISBN 0-89213-357-0.
  • Japa Reform Notebook. GN Press, La Crosse, FL 1982, ISBN 0-911233-39-3.
  • Prabhupada Lila. Gītā - Nagari Press, Potomac, Md. 1983, ISBN 0-911233-36-9.
  • Life with the Perfect Master. Gita - nagari Press, Port Royal, Pa. 1983, ISBN 0-911233-17-2.
  • Vaisnava Behavior. Gita Nagari - Press, Port Royal, PA 1983, ISBN 0-911233-18-0.
  • Prabhupada Nectar Vol 1-5. Gītā - Nagari Press, Port Royal, PA 1984-1987 ( reprint 1991,1997,2003 ), ISBN 0-911233-22-9.
  • Reading reform. Gītā - Nagari Press, Washington, D.C. 1985, ISBN 0-911233-28-8.
  • Entering the Life of Prayer. GNP, USA? 1987, ISBN 0-911233-97-0.
  • Prabhupada Meditations Vol 1-4. 1991-1997 ( reprint 2003).
  • Memories. GN Press, Port Royal, PA 1997, ISBN 0-911233-69-5.
  • A Poor Man Reads the Bhagavatam. Vols. From 1995 to 2008.
  • Niti - Sastras: Sayings of Canakya and Hitopadesa As Quoted by Srila Prabhupada. GN Press, Port Royal, Pa. 1995, ISBN 0-911233-61- X.
  • Churning the Milk Ocean. GN Press, Port Royal, PA 1995, ISBN 0-911233-63-6.
  • Photo Preaching. GN Press, Port Royal, PA 1996, ISBN 0-911233-65-2.
  • The Qualities of Sri Krsna. 1998, ISBN 0-911233-64-4.
  • My Letters from Srila Prabhupada vols 1-3. GN Press, Port Royal, PA (1986-1997), ISBN 0-911233-84-9.
  • Every Day, Just Write vols. 1-19. From 1997 to 2003.
  • From Imperfection, Purity Will Come About. GN Press, Port Royal, PA 1999, ISBN 0-911233-52-0.
  • Vaisnava Compassion. GN Press, La Crosse, FL 2001, ISBN 0-911233-25-3.
  • Stowies. GN Press, La Crosse, Fl 2002, ISBN 0-911233-04-0.
  • Write & The. 2006, ISBN 0-911233-85-7.
  • Visitors. GN Press, Port Royal, PA. 2007, ISBN 0-911233-50-4.
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