by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 26, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
Bhakti Bhusana Swami was born in Germany, but spent part of his childhood in Chile. He met Krishna devotees in 1968 when there was a lone monk visiting Germany. Bhakti Bhusana Swami assisted this monk in reaching out to local people by singing Hare Krishna melodiously...
by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 25, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
His Holiness Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami, in his quest for spiritual understanding prior to becoming a full time member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness joined the Divine Life Society were he studied under Sri Swami Sahajananda. However due to...
by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 24, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami joined the Krishna consciousness movement in Buffalo, NY in 1971 and received initiation from Srila Prabhupada later that year. He served as cook and pujari in ISKCON centers in Buffalo and Toronto until leaving for Vrindavan in 1977 and...
by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 23, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his...
by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 22, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
Bhakti Charu Swami (Bhakti Cāru Svāmī, 17 September 1945 – 4 July 2020) was a spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and a disciple of ISKCON’s founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is a...
by ISKCON Desire Tree | Mar 21, 2012 | ISKCON Swamis
His Holiness Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami is from West Africa. He is the first Sannyas disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami. He is known for his years of dedicated services to ISKCON. He is very dear to devotees from Africa. He has been teaching them the...