Hridayananda dasa Goswami

Hridayananda dasa Goswami (born November 5 1948), born Howard J. Resnick, is a spiritual leader 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 2008-05-05]

He was initiated in Los Angeles, California, on February 8 1970 as a disciple of Srila Prabhupada. In 1972, he accepted the renounced order of life ("sannyasa") [ [http://www.iskcon.com/icj/contributors.html#Hrdayananda ICJ Contributors] ] , and in 1974 he was named a member of the Governing Body Commission with responsibility for overseeing the Krishna Consciousness Movement in Latin America. [ [Back to Godhead Magazine #13-07.1978, #11-01.1976, #14-06.1979] ]

"Srila Prabhupada appointed Hrdayananda Goswami the Governing Body Commissioner for all of Latin America, and from that point the Krsna consciousness movement in Latin America began rapidly expanding. Prabhupada wrote to his newly appointed G.B.C. secretary:

Just as Hansadutta and Bhagavan have gone to foreign countries and arranged for a solid program of translation, printing and distribution of my books by sankirtan party, so you will also find the devotees in South America willing to help you in this noble project which is for the benediction of the suffering humanity." [ [ cite book | first = H.H.| last = Satsvarupa dasa Goswami| title =Srila Prabhupada Lila | publisher = [http://www.sdgonline.org/ GNPress] | date = 1983 | isbn = 0911233369] ]

Before his death in November 1977, Srila Prabhupada asked Hridayananda das Goswami, as well as ten other prominent disciples, to initiate disciples within ISKCON in order to give continuity to the disciplic succession starting with Krishna. He was also asked to complete Srila Prabhupada’s translation and commentary of the "Srimad Bhagavatam" [ [http://www.acharyadeva.com/en/mahabarata/sb.php Hridayananda's Srimad Bhagavatam] ] , an important classic of Vedic literature. Since the completing of this work, his literary project [ [Resnick. Howard. 1996. "The Supremacy of Vishnu/Krishna in the Mahabharata." The Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 4(3) (Summer): 5-21 1996] ] has since been the adaptation of the famous Indian epic, the "Mahabharata" [ [http://www.acharyadeva.com/en/mahabarata/ Hridayananda's Mahabharata] ] [ [http://www.iskcon.com/icj/contributors.html Hrdayananda dasa Goswami (Howard J. Resnick)] ICJ] , into a historical novel. He has also been awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard University [ [http://www.acharyadeva.com/en/life/ Hridayananda's Biography] ] , and has written many theological articles to date.

ee also

*Hare Krishna
*Gaudiya Vaishnavism
*Krishnology

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External links

* [http://www.acharyadeva.com/ Official Website of Hridayananda dasa Goswami]