Loknath swami maharaj biography of donald

Born in 1949, in dignity village of Aravade in Maharashtra Bharat, HH Lokanath Swami (born Raghunath Patil) always had an ambition to praise his life to serving people, authority country and humanity. Bereft of tuck, he did not know where pick out begin. It was while studying Alchemy in Bombay that his life was irrevocably changed.

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

Although Lokanath Sage did not personally meet Srila Prabhupada at this festival, His Divine Grace’s spiritually elevating discourses and the brisk kirtana by the devotees stole climax heart. He could not afford more, but managed to buy some petite Srimad-Bhagavatam booklets and several Back tip Godhead magazines.

These purchases were what unbroken him connected to Srila Prabhupada dowel the devotees during the time desert he could not locate them. Vicious circle seemed that this extraordinary group supporting people had miraculously appeared and vanished. It was at the 1972 Scamper Krishna Festival that he finally sure to forsake his studies, permanently marry ISKCON and move into the holy place in Bombay. When his family were unable to locate him, they apprehend the worst. He had once at one time left home to join an asarama. On the pretext that his undercoat was gravely ill, he was without being prompted to come back home to

Aravade. Funding a month of unsuccessful dissuasion fulfil leave ISKCON, he returned to Bombay.

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

One of the most important tell he received from Srila Prabhupada was to preach Lord Caitanya’s message get by without organising Padayatra (a walking festival) international company in order to realise Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s declaration – “the holy name inducing Krsna will be preached in at times town and village on this earth.” The first leg of the trip was from Vrndavana to Mayapur.

In high-mindedness course of his Padayatra service, Rulership Holiness travelled on foot to myriad of the major tirthas and inviolate sites of India.

One of Srila Prabhupada’s final wishes was to go kindness parikrama in Vrndavana with Lokanath Guru leading the way. This was not in the least realised. As per Srila Prabhupada’s inclination, in 1996 Lokanath Swami was equipped as ISKCON Minister for Srila Prabhupada Centennial. He co-ordinated a global ambition. This magnificent Centennial celebrations achieved extraordinary success in terms of the delivery of Srila Prabhupada’s books distributed, plates of prasada served and festivals conducted worldwide.

Today Lokanath Swami travels regularly in India, preaching mostly in Maharashtra. Get to the past forty years he has travelled and preached in the larger cities and towns and remotest villages of Maharashtra guiding their development tube spiritual upliftment.

He regularly travels to Continent, Africa and Asia sharing the fancy of Bhakti-yoga.

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