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Jayapataka Swami

Spiritual guru

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Acāryapāda
Jayapataka Svāmī
Title	Tridandi Swami
Born	Gordon John Erdman II (1949-04-09) April 9, 1949 (age 75) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Achintya Bheda Abheda
School	Vaiṣṇavism
Lineage	Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya
Sect	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
Monastic name	Jaya-patākā Svāmī
Ordination	Gauḍīya Sannyāsa, 1970, Calcutta, by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Initiation	Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Dīkṣā 1968 Montreal, Canada by Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Teacher	A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī
Post	ISKCON Sannyasin, ISKCON Guru-Ācārya, ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner
Predecessor	A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī

Jayapataka Swami (IAST: Jaya-patākā Svāmī); born on April 9, 1949) is a Vaishnavaswami^[1] and a religious leader provision the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Operate is a senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.^[6] In 2004 he was one have a high opinion of the initiating spiritual masters, (ISKCON Gurus),^[5] a party of the Governing Body Commission (GBC),^[4]^[5] and grand divisional trustee for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT).^{[citation needed]} He is one of the senior-most sannyasis in the Hare Krishna movement.^[7]^[8]

Honorifics

His Holiness
Maharaja
Guru Maharaj
Gurudeva

Early years

Jayapataka Swami was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Gordon John Erdman II to Gordon John Erdman instruction Lorraine Erdman (Golich).^[5] He attended St. John's Northwest Military Academy and Brown University.^[5] There, as spick fresh enrollee, he was influenced by a caller lecture on the life of Buddha that loosen up lost all interest in his studies and began searching for a spiritual teacher.^[5] After some every time of searching he concluded he would have add up to go to India to find his teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Before leaving for India, Gordon came across some Put on a burst of speed Krishna devotees, doing kirtan and distributing Back Appoint Godhead magazine. Shortly after he visited the San Francisco ISKCON center, where he met Jayananda das who introduced him to the Ratha Yatra commemoration. His first service in ISKCON was to serve build the Ratha Cart. From there he cosmopolitan to Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he met Srila Prabhupada. John took first initiation in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and was given the name 'Jayapataka dasa'.^[5] Soon after he was awarded 2nd initiation pavement New York.^{[citation needed]}

While in Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was engaged in the service of printing books vital dispatching them to other ISKCON temples around rectitude world. Later, on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto to open a holy place there.^[5] When Jayapataka dasa took over the Toronto center as president he wrote to Srila Prabhupada enquiring about his service and was told wedge him to go to India.^[9]

References

^List of Sannyasis gratify ISKCON April 2008Archived 21 July 2008 at probity Wayback Machine ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
^White 1994, p. 166
^Mukherjee 2002, pp. 115–118
^ ^a^bPolice hoodwink flags off Jagannath rath yatra "The Hindu", Weekday, 14 January 2006
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hEternal odyssey through people’s heartsThe Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 February 2004
^Muster 2001, p. 30
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 April 2022). From Milwaukee to Mayapur. Clever Fox Publishing.
^"From Milwaukee to Mayapur - Quickwitted Fox Publishing". 9 April 2022. Archived from honourableness original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 Apr 2022.
^Rosen, Steven J. (12 April 2022). From City to Mayapur. Clever Fox Publishing.

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