Special Gita Class With Prahladananda Swami @ 5:30, Sat., Nov. 12 @ 26 2nd Ave.

Today is a special program in which His Holiness Prahladananda Swami, a special speaker, will teach us our Bhagavad Gita class.

Prahladananda Swami is a serious and well-known bhakti-yogi for forty-two years. He is a sannyasi, a member of the renounced order of life. Prahladananda Swami constantly travels around the world teaching people how to understand and live by Krishna's teachings as expounded in the Bhagavad Gita.

Please do the very best you can to attend our meetup this day.

To see a photo of Prahladananda Swami, please visit here: https://www.meetup.com/Kirtan-and-Discourses-on-Bhagavad-Gita/photos/2902691/#71012462

Here is some background on Prahladananda Swami:

His Holiness Prahladananda Swami is a Vaishnava swami and a religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ("ISKCON"). He is an initiating spiritual master (diksha guru) and a member of the Governing Body Commission ("GBC"). Prahladananda Swami was born as Philip Burbank in 1949, in Buffalo, New York. In January 1969, while studying at the University of Buffalo, he joined ISKCON. The same year, he was initiated by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, receiving the name Prahladananda Dasa. In 1975 he joined the Radha-Damodara preaching bus tour, organized by Tamal Krishna Goswami and Vishnujana Swami. In 1982 he took sannyasa, and in 1986 he became one of the initiating gurus in ISKCON. In 1989 he became a member of the Vaishnava Institute for Higher Education, in Vrindavana, India. In 1990 he was appointed to head the Governing Body Commission’s committee of Health and Welfare. In 1991, the GBC also made him the head of the sannyasa ministry.