Lokanatha Swami, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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ISKCON Preacher
Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1949
Place of Birth: Maharashtra, India
Profession: writer
Nationality: India
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Lokanatha Swami
- Lokanath Swami (born 1949) is an ISKCON guru from India.
- He is a senior disciple of A.
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- Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (the founder of ISKCON).
- Lokanatha Swami oversees ISKCON activities and preaching in Maharashtra and Noida, and serves on the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON as a Minister of Padayatra.
- Lokanatha Swami is involved with various worldwide ISKCON preaching activities.
- He travels in India and in the West, giving discourses on Bhagavad Gita and other Hindu texts.Lokanatha Swami was born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, India.
- He pursued his secondary education from Wellington College, Sangli and moved to Bombay to study Chemistry at Kirti College.
- In the year 1971, after meeting A.
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- Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his western disciples at a preaching program in Mumbai, he "forsook his study of chemistry in favour of studying the Bhagavad Gita" and joined ISKCON.
- He took sannyasa (renounced order of life) in 1975.
- In 1976 he inaugurated the Padayatra walking pilgrimage tour of India where, together with a group of Hare Krishna devotees, a cart and religious books, "he treaded his way on foot across India, preaching the knowledge of sanatana dharma".
- In 1989 he inaugurated the same preaching program in America.
- Since then, Padayatra has become instrumental in propagation of Krishna consciousness.
- In 1986 Lokanatha Swami was appointed an initiating guru in ISKCON.
- In 1996 he was responsible for organising a celebration of 100th Anniversary of A.
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- Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in India.
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