Jayadvaita Swami is an editor, writer, publisher, and teacher. He 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 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.
From the first task assigned to him–stapling booklets–he went on to getting involved in nearly every phase of publishing Srila Prabhupada’s books.
In 1978 he accepted the order of renounced life, sannyasa.
He has lectured extensively at colleges and universities, especially in the United States.
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 translations and commentaries for Srila Sanatana Goswami’s sixteenth-century Sanskrit philosophical and devotional works Sri Krishna Lila Stava and Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta and for Srila Jiva Gosvami’s Tattva-sandarbha.
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 writing, he travels widely, teaching about the philosophy and culture of Krishna consciousness.
He has taught in more than seventy countries:
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