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Sanskrit: अभयचरणारिवनद भिकतवेदानत सवामीपभुपाद, abhaya-caraṇāravinda bhakti-vedānta svāmī
prabhupāda, (September 1, 1896–November 14, 1977), was the founder of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness a movement to propagate Gaudiya Vaishnavism of
Hinduism, not only in India, but also throughout the whole world, a devotional yoga tradition
that is popularly known as the "Hare Krishna". Born as Abhay Charan De, in Calcutta he
was educated at the prestigious local Scottish Churches College. Before adopting the life of
a pious renunciate, vanaprastha, in 1950, he was married with children and owned a small
pharmaceutical business. He later took a vow of renunciation, sannyasa, in 1959 and
started writing commentaries on Vaishnava scriptures. In his later years, as a traveling
Vaishnava sadhu, he became an influential communicator of Gaudiya Vaishnava theology to
India and specifically to the West through his leadership of the International Society for
Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded in 1966. As the founder of ISKCON, he has
"emerged as a major figure of the Western counterculture, initiating thousands of young
Americans." Despite attacks from the anticult groups, he received a favorable welcome from
many religious scholars, such as J. Stillson Judah, Harvey Cox, Larry Shinn and Thomas
Hopkins, who praised Prabhupada's translations and defended the group against distorted
media images and misinterpretations. In respect to his achievements, religious leaders from
other Gaudiya Vaishnava movements have also given him the credit.[13] He has been
described as a charismatic leader, in the sense used by the sociologist Max Weber, as he
was successful in acquiring followers in the United States, Europe, India and elsewhere.
As such his Hare Krishna movement is accepted by the academics as "the most genuinely
Hindu of all the many Indian movements in the West".
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Aum Devkinandanaye Vidmahe Vasudavaye Dhi-mahi Tanno
Krishnah Prachodayat