Jayadvaita Swami — editor, writer, publisher, and teacher — is a disciple of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
He served as an editor or assistant editor for nearly all the books of Srila Prabhupada published during Srila Prabhupada’s lifetime.
He received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1968, at the age of eighteen.
Practically the first task assigned to him was to staple booklets. He later went on to typing manuscripts, transcribing Srila Prabhupada’s dictation for books, and then typesetting, proofreading, managing book production, editing, and taking part in the governance of Srila Prabhupada’s publishing house.
He has lectured extensively at colleges and universities, especially in the United States.
In 1978 he accepted the order of renounced life, sannyasa.
In 1985 and 1986, he spent a year and a half traveling with a party of pilgrims on pada-yatra, a journey on foot, through various states of India, stopping in a different town or village every night.
In 1987, along with Dhanurdhara Swami and Bhurijana Dasa, he co-founded the Vrindaban Institute for Higher Education.
From 1988 till 2017 he served as a director of Srila Prabhupada’s publishing house, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
From 1991 through most of 1998 he served as editor in chief of Back to Godhead magazine, for which he had been an assistant editor for several years.
From 2008 till 2018 he served as a director of the Bhaktivedanta Archives, the official repository for historical records from Srila Prabhupada’s life and work.
He served as the senior editor of a three-volume translation and commentary (publication completed in 2005) for Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta, a sixteenth-century Sanskrit philosophical and devotional work by Srila Sanatana Gosvami, and, by the same author, Sri Krishna Lila Stava (published in 2008). He also served as the senior editor for Srila Jiva Gosvami’s Tattva-sandarbha (published in 2013).
He is the author of Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the meaning of life (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2015), winner of a Benjamin Franklin gold award from the Independent Book Publishers Association.
He does not initiate disciples.
Apart from his services in publishing, he travels widely, teaching about the philosophy and culture of Krishna consciousness.
These are the countries in which he has taught:
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