You are invited to spend upcoming weekend in the association of HH Niranjana Swami and His Grace Madhavananda Prabhu for series of lectures at the temple.
Tentative Schedule:
Lectures by HH Niranjana Swami - TBD
Lectures by HG Madhavananda Prabhu:
Friday, April 20: 7 - 9 pm - The Ecstasy of Insignificance
Saturday, April 21: 6 - 9 pm - Lessons in Entering Vrindavan
Sunday, April 22: Morning Class
Sunday, April 22: Feast Lecture - Living Alone in the Crowd
His Holiness Niranjana Swami is a Vaishnava sannyasi, initiating guru and a governing body commissioner of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
He was born on December 10, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In 1972, his spiritual search took a turning point when he saw a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, on the counter of a bookshop in Washington, DC. After completing his study of the "Gita", he continued his research of Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy by purchasing and reading several other publications from the same author, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
During this time, he returned to Massachusetts, continued his work as a house builder, and simultaneously pursued further studies by regularly visiting the Boston ISKCON temple. By mid-1973, he accepted a monastic life, moved into the Boston temple, and accepted initiation from his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in the early spring of 1974. Soon thereafter he received brahminical initiation.
In 1986, at ISKCON's world headquarters in Sri Dhama Mayapura, West Bengal, His Holiness Niranjana Swami accepted the renounced order of life, sannyasa. Since that time, wishing to satisfy his spiritual master, Niranjana Swami has been traveling extensively throughout North America, the former Soviet Union, and India, lecturing on the teachings found within the books of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
His Grace Madhavananda Prabhu joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar in Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications. For over ten years he has been serving as the director of ISKCON Gopal Jiu Publications, the editor of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Magazine, and the email magazine Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu.
