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Swami B.V. Tripurari

Email: sadhusanga@swami.org

Author's Web Page:
http://www.swami.org/

About the Author:
It is difficult to find someone from the West who understands and can articulate the theory behind an Eastern mystical tradition in our language. It is even more difficuly to find a modern mystic. In Swami Tripurari we have both: a traditional mystic who can articulate the teachings of an ancient spiritual tradition. A compelling speaker - to hear him and be in his presence is itself a spiritual experience.

Swami Tripurari has spent his adult life as a Hindu monastic. Awarded the renounced order (sannyasa) in 1975, Swami has studied under numerous spiritual masters, principal of whom are Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja of the Gaudiya Vedanta lineage. He has been dubbed by popular writers "the contemporary voice of Vaishnavism." Read widely, his books are sold all over the world.

Swami Tripurari is the foremost Western exponent of the Gaudiya Vedanta lineage. He is the founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Society and vice president of the World Vaishnava Association. Author, poet, and spiritual teacher, Swami has written several books, including Rasa: Love Relationships in Transcendence, Ancient Wisdom for Modern Ignorance, Tattva-sandarbha: Sacred India's Philosophy of Ecstacy, Joy of Self, and Form of Beauty.