Shyam das biography
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Bhaktivinod – Gaura – Saraswati Vani Seva
Always Srila Maharaj likes to pass away his personal topics. He is speaking-‘What use hearing about a fallen soul like me.’ But still, we think it necessary to introduce Srila Maharaj in front of you all so that there cannot be any complicacy and doubts. Though we know it very well that his “Vani Svarup “is his real identity, because by now he is well known to everybody, still we are trying our best to speak something about him almost near approximation. He took birth near Calcutta Gaudiya Mission at the bank of Sri Gangaji ( Bag Bazar) in a poor vaishya family, though the traditional culture of that family was very very high regarding educational Qualification or Art & cultural prosperity, but he was very fond of sports and game all alone(especially football game), so naturally, he could not pay his full attention to his education, though his brainpower was very high. Anyway, he was a pure science student of Calcutta University. Later on, in life he was very inspired by the life of Einstein the great Scientist, so naturally, he started developing some skills regarding scientific research work. Most people think that he was a scientist, but he says—“Not that, I was not a scientist.” He used to help them (scientists)
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Shyamdas (1953-2013) was a pioneer in bringing Indian devotional and yogic traditions to the West. He published more than 15 books on various aspects of devotional philosophy. A talented musician, he released 6 albums of devotional chants, known as bhajans or kirtans. He sang to crowds all over the world, including at the Omega Institute and at yoga studios on practically every continent.
Shyamdas, born Stephen Ted Schaffer, first came to India in 1972 to meet the great saint Neem Karoli Baba-Maharaji, guru to Ram Dass and others. Shortly thereafter he met the man who would become his guru, His Holiness Shri Goswami Prathameshji, one of the leading masters of Hindu spirituality, with whom he studied and lived for much of the next 18 years until Prathameshji passed away in 1990. During his time in India, Shyamdas developed fluency in Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, and Brajbhasha, translating thousands of pages of classical and pre-modern texts into English. He became enamored with the mystic poets of North India, including the poems of Surdas, widely considered the Shakespeare of Hindi literature.
His teaching style was infused with humor, calling his Woodstock community the “Bhajan Belt” and sprinkling in phrases like “Aum Shalom,” a remnant from his secu
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Aparimay Shyam Das
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