Sacinandana Swami
Born in Hamburg in 1955, Sacinandana Swami is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and for more than 30 years he has been living as a monk in the Bhakti-yoga-tradition. Throughout Europe he has cooperated with the foundation of spiritual life- and farm communities and has travelled around the world to lecture about spiritual topics, to spread Vedic knowledge and to help other people in their spiritual lives. In his seminars and public lectures he enthuses the audience through his warm and open way and his deep spiritual realizations.

He is also known as the author of several books and as an enthusiastic bhajan singer.
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He joined ISKCON in 1978, shortly after Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance and was initiated by Jayadvaita Swami. Till 1995 he mostly lived in India where he a.o. cared for the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi in Mayapur and took over the work of a temple president in Vrndavana. Then he began travelling and preaching in the whole world, above all in Europe, South Africa, India and Australia. At his spiritual master’s request he took over the position of an initiating spiritual master some years ago.

He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1971. He is the president of Iskcon Philadelphia, GBC representative for Germany and Austria and initiating spiritual master. He studied the Science of religion at the Temple University (M.A. and Ph.D.) and Philosophy at the university in Pennsylvania (B.A.), and sees it as his task, to develop the Gaudiya Vaisnava theology in Iskcon based on his studies.

 As a twen the Suisse Gopal Kripa Prabhu started for travelling round the world to find the sense in life. After some adventurers finally he met some Hare Krsna devotees in Indonesia talking with him about Krsna consciousness. Despite he was rather critical he felt in his heart that this was his way. Soon he met his spiritual master Gour Govinda Svami and his new home: Gadei-Giri – a small village in the jungle of Orissa, where he lived in the famous Gopal-Jiu-temple for many years. Since a few years he regularly returns to Switzerland and to Germany to speak about his deep spiritual realizations with other people and to inspire them to start their own way.