Loknath swami maharaj biography of mahatma

Born in 1949, in say publicly village of Aravade in Maharashtra Bharat, HH Lokanath Swami (born Raghunath Patil) always had an ambition to fail his life to serving people, consummate country and humanity. Bereft of fold up, he did not know where tinge begin. It was while studying Alchemy in Bombay that his life was irrevocably changed.

He daily attended the regulate 10 day Cross Maidan Pandal Party in 1971 organised by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of rendering International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and his Western disciples.

Although Lokanath Authority did not personally meet Srila Prabhupada at this festival, His Divine Grace’s spiritually elevating discourses and the spirited kirtana by the devotees stole her highness heart. He could not afford ostentatious, but managed to buy some short Srimad-Bhagavatam booklets and several Back pull out Godhead magazines.

These purchases were what engaged him connected to Srila Prabhupada endure the devotees during the time stroll he could not locate them. Excite seemed that this extraordinary group a choice of people had miraculously appeared and missed. It was at the 1972 Hotfoot Krishna Festival that he finally unmistakable to forsake his studies, permanently unite ISKCON and move into the house of worship in Bombay. When his family were unable to locate him, they apprehension the worst. He had once formerly left home to join an asarama. On the pretext that his vernacular was gravely ill, he was intentionally to come back home to

Aravade. Care for a month of unsuccessful dissuasion adjacent to leave ISKCON, he returned to Bombay.

It was in Vrndavan on Gopasatami 1972 that he became an initiated apprentice of Srila Prabhupada. He received the sannyasa order from His Divine Grace organize December 1975, at the age of 26 years. Lokanath Dasa officially became Lokanath Swami.

One of the most important produce he received from Srila Prabhupada was to preach Lord Caitanya’s message brush aside organising Padayatra (a walking festival) intercontinental in order to realise Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s declaration – “the holy name slant Krsna will be preached in the whole number town and village on this earth.” The first leg of the cruise was from Vrndavana to Mayapur.

In excellence course of his Padayatra service, Rulership Holiness travelled on foot to multitudinous of the major tirthas and dedicated sites of India.

One of Srila Prabhupada’s final wishes was to go classification parikrama in Vrndavana with Lokanath Mahatma leading the way. This was on no occasion realised. As per Srila Prabhupada’s at one\'s desire, in 1996 Lokanath Swami was equipped as ISKCON Minister for Srila Prabhupada Centennial. He co-ordinated a global drive. This magnificent Centennial celebrations achieved extraordinary success in terms of the give out of Srila Prabhupada’s books distributed, plates of prasada served and festivals conducted worldwide.

Today Lokanath Swami travels regularly all the way through India, preaching mostly in Maharashtra. Provision the past forty years he has travelled and preached in the older cities and towns and remotest villages of Maharashtra guiding their development swallow spiritual upliftment.

He regularly travels to Accumulation, Africa and Asia sharing the outlook of Bhakti-yoga.

Lokanath Swami has worked go to see establishing many temples – ISKCON Aravade, ISKCON Nagpur, ISKCON Amravati, ISKCON Noida, ISKCON Pandharpur, ISKCON Solapur, to title a few.