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__NOTOC__ Lokanath Swami (born 1949) is an ISKCON guru from India. He is a senior disciple of A. C. 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. C. 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. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in India. ==Bibliography== In English *Lokanāth Swami in Conversation with Srila Prabhupada : Context and Compilations – Noida: Padayātrā Press, 2014. — 153p. — Print ISBN 978-0-620-58488-3 — E-book ISBN 978-0-620-58489-0 *Lokanāth Swami Festivals: Śrīla Prabhupāda at the Māyāpur-Vr̥ndāvana festivals. — Noida: Padayātrā Press, 2001. — 244 p. — ISBN 81-901132-1-6 *Lokanāth Swami Kumbha: Festival of Immortality. — Noida: Padayātrā Press, 2001. — 136 p. *Lokanāth Swami My Prabhupāda. — Noida: Padayātrā Press, 2007. — 159 p. *Lokanāth Swami Back to Home (BTG Articles Collection) *Lokanāth Swami Samskrtoccaranam (A complete guide to Sanskrit pronunciation) In Hindi *Lokanāth Swami Mere Prabhupada *Lokanāth Swami Bhuvaikuntha Pandharpur *Lokanāth Swami Kumbha In Marathi *Lokanāth Swami Bhuvaikuntha Pandharpur *Sukhi Jivanacha Marg (Collection of Lectures in Marathi) In Gujarati *Lokanāth Swami Kumbha In Russian *Локанатха Свами Обратно к Богу. — М.: Философская книга, 2003. — 96 с. — ISBN 5-8205-0022-9 *Локанатха Свами Кумбха-мела. Праздник бессмертия / Пер. с англ.: Анируддха дас. — М.: Философская книга, 2003. — 144 с. *Локанатха Свами Фестивали. — М.: Ведабук, 2007. — 350 с. — ISBN 978-5-902399-14-8 *Локанатха Свами Мой Прабхупада. — М.: Философская книга, 2008. — 240 с. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lokanatha Swami」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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