įor more than thirty years he was the international director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute which promotes the study of the relationship between religion and science ( Vedanta). A few years later he became one of the religious leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna Movement). In 1971 he received spiritual initiation from A. Thoudam Damodara Singh and by the honorific Sripada ( Śrīpāda), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual leader, chemist, writer about religion and science, and poet.
Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami ( IAST: Bhaktisvarūpa Dāmodara Svāmī 9 December 1937 – 2 October 2006), also known as Dr.
