Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
| His Holiness Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswāmī | |
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Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
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| Religion | Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism |
| Personal | |
| Born |
December 6, 1939 New York |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | US |
| Title | Goswami |
| Period in office | 1972–present |
| Predecessor | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
| Religious career | |
| Initiation | Diksa–1966, Sannyasa–1972 |
| Post | ISKCON Guru, Sannyasi |
| Website | sdgonline |
Satsvarupa das Goswami (IAST satsvarūpa dāsa gosvāmī, Devanagari: सत्स्वरूप दास गोस्वामी) (born Stephen Guarino on December 6, 1939) is a senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement. Serving as a writer, poet, and artist, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is the author of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's authorized biography,Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta. After Prabhupada's death, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami was one of the eleven disciples selected to become an initiating guru in ISKCON. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, (Sanskrit: [sət̪'sʋəruːpə d̪ɑːsə ɡoː'sʋɑːmiː]), is one of the first few westerners ordained by Prabhupada in September 1966. He has been since established as a prolific Vaishnava writer and poet. While traveling, lecturing on Krishna consciousness, and instructing disciples worldwide, he published over hundred books including poems, memoirs, essays, novels, and studies based on the Vaishnava scriptures. In his later years he created hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that attempt to capture and express his perspective on the culture of Krishna consciousness.
He was born Stephen Guarino, the elder of two children, to Italian Roman Catholic parents in Staten Island, New York. He was educated initially in a public high school nearby and then enrolled in the Brooklyn College, where he underwent an intellectual revolution putting in question his Catholic values. In the college he read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and associated with students and professors who were religious skeptics.
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