Jayapataka Swami
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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 and Lorraine Erdman (Golich).[5] He attended St. John's Northwestern Military Academy and Brown University.[5] There, as a fresh enrollee, he was influenced by a guest lecture on the life of Buddha that he lost all interest in his studies and began searching for a spiritual teacher.[5] After some time of searching he concluded he would have to go to India to find his teacher.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Before leaving for India, Gordon came across some Hare Krishna devotees, doing kirtan and distributing Back To Godhead magazine. Shortly after he visited the San Francisco ISKCON center, where he met Jayananda das who introduced him to the Ratha Yatra festival. His first service in ISKCON was to help build the Ratha Cart. From there he travelled 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 in New York.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
While in Montreal, Jayapataka dasa was engaged in the service of printing books and dispatching them to other ISKCON temples around the world. Later, on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka went to Toronto to open a temple there.[5] When Jayapataka dasa took over the Toronto center as president he wrote to Srila Prabhupada enquiring about his service and was told by him to go to India.[9]
References
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- ↑ List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 Template:Webarchive ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 5 May 2008
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- ↑ a b Police chief flags off Jagannath rath yatra "The Hindu", Saturday, 14 January 2006
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Eternal odyssey through people’s hearts The Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 February 2004
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Works cited
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External links
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- Living people
- Indian Hare Krishnas
- Indian Hindu monks
- Brown University alumni
- Religious leaders from Milwaukee
- 20th-century Hindu religious leaders
- 21st-century Hindu religious leaders