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Satsvarupa das Goswami (IAST ', Devanagari: )〔Library of Congress refers to two variants of ''Personal Name'' spelling: ''Goswami, Satsvarupa Das,'' 1939– and ''Goswāmī, Satsvarūpa Dāsa,'' 1939–; WorldCat refers to 3 different spellings including two variants of diacritical spelling.('Satsvarūpa Dāsa Goswami', 'Satsvarupa Dasa Gosvami', 'Satsvarūpa Dasa Goswāmī' )〕 (born Stephen Guarino on December 6, 1939) is a senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement. Serving as a writer, poet, and artist,〔The American Humanities Index Humanities – 1991, Whitston Pub. Co, ISBN 0-87875-417-2, p. 1148〕〔(Report on painting exhibition. Georgetown. ''Washington Times'', Nov 10, 2001. ) "check out whimsical, colorful paintings and sculpture by writer Satsvarupa dasa Goswami from 11 am to 6 pm today at the gallery"〕 Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is the author of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's authorized biography,〔George D. Chryssides, Margaret Z. Wilkins. ''A Reader in New Religious Movements'', 2006, ISBN 0-8264-6168-9 p. 208〕''Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta''.〔 〕 After Prabhupada's death, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami was one of the eleven disciples selected to become an initiating guru in ISKCON.〔 (Hare Krishna leader visits local followers ) Daily Collegian, Penn State University, August 5, 1981〕 Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, (Sanskrit: (:sət̪'sʋəruːpə d̪ɑːsə ɡoː'sʋɑːmiː)), is one of the first few westerners ordained by Prabhupada in September 1966.〔N. Suman Bhat, N. Suman. ''Torch: Bearers of the Krishna Cult''. 2005, Sura Books. ISBN 81-7478-542-6 p. 81 "''Steve became Satsvarupa, Bruce became Brahmananda...''"〕〔S. Rosen ''Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights''. 2004, Lantern Books. ISBN 1-59056-066-3 p. 116 "''one of Prabhupada's earliest and most dedicated disciples''"〕 He has been since established as a prolific Vaishnava writer and poet. While traveling, lecturing on Krishna consciousness, and instructing disciples worldwide, he published over hundred books including poems, memoirs, essays, novels, and studies based on the Vaishnava scriptures. In his later years he created hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that attempt to capture and express his perspective on the culture of Krishna consciousness. == Early years == He was born Stephen Guarino,〔 the elder of two children, to Italian Roman Catholic parents in Staten Island, New York. He was educated initially in a public high school nearby and then enrolled in the Brooklyn College, where he underwent an intellectual revolution putting in question his Catholic values. In the college he read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and associated with students and professors who were religious skeptics. In January 1962 he joined the Navy, where he served for two years on board of U.S.S. Saratoga, a super-carrier. In his introduction to ''With Śrīla Prabhupāda in the Early Days, 1966–1969'' he writes: "A few months after the death of President Kennedy, I was honorably discharged, and without visiting my parents on Staten Island, I went directly to the Lower East Side. By then, the Lower East Side was, in my mind and in the minds of my friends, the most mystical place in the world."〔 "I certainly didn’t think some guru was suddenly going to appear and save me. I was too cynical. Yet I was regularly reading versions of the Bhagavad-gita and the Upanishads. Ironically, one week before the gift shop at 26 Second Avenue changed into Srila Prabhupada's temple, I was standing in that very doorway with a Bhagavad-gita in my back pocket, waiting to meet a friend. Somehow we had chosen 26 Second Avenue as a meeting place. At that time, I had no idea what was about to happen."〔 In July 1966 he met and accepted a spiritual instruction from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami who registered ISKCON a month later. Prabhupada soon began assigning him typing tasks which Satsvarupa understood "to be yoga".〔John P Reis, ''God is Not Dead; He Has Simply Changed Clothes: A Study of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness'' University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975, p.145〕 On September 23, 1966 he was ordained and shortly became one of the leading figures of the new Gaudiya Vaishnava movement.〔〔Letter by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, November 11, 1967 to Brahmananda, "I do not want crowd of Kirtananandas but I want a single soul like Brahmananda, Mukunda, Rayarama, and Satsvarupa. The same example is always applicable that one moon is sufficient for the night as not thousands of stars...Without being empowered by Krishna, nobody can preach Krishna Consciousness. It is not academic qualification or financial strength which helps in these matters, but it is sincerity of purpose which helps us always. Therefore, I wish that you will remain in charge of New York, let Satsvarupa be in charge of Boston, Let Mukunda be in charge of San Francisco...(Letters quote )〕〔 After Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's departure from this world he was one of eleven disciples selected to become an initiating guru in ISKCON. Prof. Larry Shinn in his overview of the contemporary state of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's movement confirms this while relating his first meeting with Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: In a typical initiation ceremony as a guru of International Society for Krishna Consciousness he would begin with purification using ''achamana'' (holy water) and concludes with a sermon on the importance of chanting of the holy names in the life of a new initiate. 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「Satsvarupa dasa Goswami」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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