- Giriraja Swami
"'Infobox ReligiousBio
background = #AAA07A
honorific-prefix = His Holiness
honorific-suffix = Srila
name = Girirāja Swāmī"
religion =Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Title =sannyasi
location =USA
Period = 1978 - current
post =disciple
date of birth =
place of birth =Chicago
website = [http://www.girirajswami.com GRS Website]Giriraja Swami is a religious leader, and initiating spiritual master ( diksa guru ) of the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness . [ [http://www.iskcon.net.au/sannyasaministry/listing List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008] ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008]Origin
Giriraja Swami was born in
Chicago as Glenn Phillip Teton.As an ISKCON Leader
He personally met and became an initiated
disciple ofSrila Prabhupada early in 1969 in Boston during one month of lectures byPrabhupada inBoston University . [Citation
first = Dasa Goswami | last = Satsvarupa
author-link = Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
title = "You Cannot Leave Boston" My Letters From Srila Prabhupada Volume 2 | publisher = GN Press| date = 1998
page = February 1969
isbn = 0911233717]In 1972, after Giriraj toured India with Srila Prabhupada, [Citation
first = Dasa Goswami | last = Satsvarupa
author-link = Satsvarupa dasa Goswami| title = Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Vol 1| publisher = BBT| date = first edition 1980-82, second edition 2002 | pages = vol.1 1133 chapter: India: Dancing White Elephants | isbn = 0892133570] ] Prabhupada appointed him as President of ISKCON Bombay as well as Trustee of theBhaktivedanta Book Trust .Giriraja accepted the renounced order of life,
sannyasa after Prabhupada's departure in 1977 fromTamal Krishna Goswami . He was also appointed the President of ISKCON's Board of Trustees in India. He joined theGoverning Body Commission in 1982 (the ultimate managing authority for the movement) Girirraj Swami went on to oversee the Society's activities in Bombay, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.Due to health considerations Giriraja Swami has reduced his travels, he has taken the opportunity to focus on Srila Prabhupada's instruction to him to write. He is now based in Southern California.
He is currently on the
board of trustees ofBhaktivedanta College . [ [http://www.radhadesh.com/index.php?id=65 Bhaktivedanta College Board of Trustees] Bhaktivedanta College Vision]Books
Watering the Seed, Giriraj Swami, Publisher: Mountain King (2000), ASIN: B000K9PRVS
Notes
External links
* [http://www.girirajswami.com/home.htm Website of Giriraja Swami]
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