Life & Teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada VHS 1994 Hare Krishna EX

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Offered for sale is a vintage video of "The Life & Teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada" (1994, ITV Productions, SPV14, Running Time: 110 Minutes), which features rare footage, and is a long out of print collector's item (see bio info below).  The item is in "FINE" condition (see photos / description above), and is a suitable for usage or archiving in a permanent collection.  The asking price is .99 + FREE Shipping / Handling (.95 Value; US Domestic only), and is the only example offered for sale on eBay.  Feel free to contact me with further questions, and thanks for visiting my listing.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
His Divine Grace
অভয় চরণারবিন্দ ভক্তিবেদান্ত স্বামী
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupāda
Bhaktivedānta Swami in Germany, 1974
Personal
Born
Abhay Charan De
1 September 1896
Calcutta
,
Bengal Presidency
,
British India
Died
14 November 1977 (aged 81)
Vrindavan
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
Resting place
Bhaktivedānta Swami's
Samadhi
,
Vrindavan
Religion
Hinduism
Nationality
Indian
Denomination
Vaishnavism
Lineage
Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya
Sect
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Notable work(s)
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
,
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
,
Caitanya Caritāmṛta
Alma mater
Scottish Church College
,
University of Calcutta
(
B.A.
)
[1]
Monastic name
Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmī
Temple
Gaudiya Math, ISKCON
Philosophy
Achintya Bheda Abheda
Religious career
Teacher
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Based in
Vrindavan
, India
Period in office
1966–1977
Predecessor
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Initiation
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava
Diksa
1933
by
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Ordination
Gaudiya
Sannyasa
, 1959, by
Bhaktiprajnāna Keśava Gosvāmī
Post
Guru
,
Ācārya
Website
Official Website of ISKCON
Official Website of Prabhupada
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Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami
(
IAST
:
Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmī
; 1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977
[2]
) or
Srila Prabhupada
, born
Abhay Charan De
, was an Indian
spiritual teacher
and the founder-
acharya
(preceptor) of the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON),
[3]
commonly known as the "Hare Krishna movement".
[1]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
Members of the ISKCON movement view Bhaktivedanta Swami as a representative and messenger of
Krishna Chaitanya
.
[8]
Born in an aristocratic
Kayastha
family in Kolkata (then called Calcutta), he was educated at the
Scottish Church College
there.
[1]
Before adopting the life of a novice renunciate (
vanaprastha
) in 1950,
[9]
he was married with children and owned a small
pharmaceutical
business.
[10]
[11]
In 1959, he took a vow of renunciation (
sannyasa
) and started writing commentaries on
Vaishnava
scriptures.
[12]
In his later years, as a travelling Vaishnava monk, he became an influential communicator of
Gaudiya Vaishnava
sampradaya
's theology to India and specifically to the
West
through his leadership of ISKCON, founded in 1966.
[13]
[14]
As
the founder
of ISKCON, he "emerged as a major figure of the Western
counterculture
, initiating thousands of young Americans."
[15]
He was criticized by
anti-cult groups
, but was well regarded by
religious scholars
, such as J. Stillson Judah,
Harvey Cox
,
Larry Shinn
and Thomas Hopkins, who praised Bhaktivedānta Swāmi's translations and defended the group against distorted media images and misinterpretations.
[16]
Religious leaders from other Gaudiya Vaishnava institutions also gave him credit for his achievements.
[17]
He has been described as a
charismatic leader
who was successful in acquiring followers in many countries including the United States, Europe and India.
[18]
[19]
[20]
His mission was to propagate throughout the world
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
, a school of
Vaishnavite
Hinduism
that had been taught to him by his guru,
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
.
[13]
After his death in 1977, ISKCON, the society he founded based on a form of Hindu
Krishnaism
using the
Bhagavata Purana
as a central scripture, continued to grow. In February 2014, ISKCON's news agency reported reaching a milestone of distributing over half a billion of his books since 1965. His translation of and commentary on the
Bhagavad Gita
, titled
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
, is considered by ISKCON adherents and many Vedic scholars as the finest, bona fide translation of
Vaishnava
literary works.
[5]
[6]
[7]
[21]