About the Author
Dr. Dane Holtzman) was born in Los Angeles in 1949. He studied sociology and economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While there he excelled in athletics and was selected the Most Valuable Player of 1970 (indoor volleyball) by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and won the international 2-man beach volleyball tournament at Santa Cruz.
On June 11, 1970, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and received initiation from him in February of 1971. Later that year, he was appointed temple president of the Portland, Oregon branch of ISKCON. Then he became the national sales manager for ISKCON's Spiritual Sky Scented Products Company, until he was asked to institute the world's first Bhakta Program in October of 1974 at the Los Angeles temple. Under the direction of Srila Prabhupāda, Danavir Goswami proceeded to inaugurate Bhakta Programs elsewhere in America, Europe, Africa, India, etc. Presently this comprehensive educational system for new devotees is standard throughout ISKCON.
In 1980, Danavir Goswami inaugurated Friends of Lord Krishna (FOLK), a lay congregational network in the UK, likely the Society's first. Thereafter he became director of ISKCON Scotland, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Holland and Belgium. In 1987 he was elected to ISKCON's thirty-man world Governing Body Commission and authorized as an initiating spiritual master.
In 1989 he returned to America to co-direct Krishna Fest, a national travelling Vedic cultural festival which included music, lectures and mul-timedia theatre. In the 1990's he commissioned the establishment of a permanent centre in safia, Israel to teach Israeli Druze about Krishna con-sciousness.
He has earned the Bhakti-shastri and Bhakti-Vaibhav degrees from ISKCON and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Vaisnava Philosophy and Vaisnava Administration in 1996 from the Florida Vedic College. Danavir Goswami has taught courses in five major universities, lectured at over 100 colleges and many diverse religious institutions, and appeared on numerous TV and radio talk shows.
Preface
As we begin writing a commentary on Śri Garga-samhita, we humbly bow to the lotus feet of our beloved spiritual master, Om Vişnupāda Paramahamsa Parivrăjakācārya 108 Śri Srimad His Divine Grace A. С. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Krsna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisance's are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Goswami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonal-ism and voidism.
Introduction
In the following section, we have included "The Merit of Garga-samhita," taken from Sammohana-tantra mentioned earlier. The name of King Pratibahu is mentioned there as the son of Vajra. The Srimad-Bhagavatam explains that when the curse of brahmaņas destroyed the whole Yadu dynasty, Vajra survived.
Thus Vajra, the son of Aniruddha, is Lord Krsna's great grandson. Yudhisthira Mahārāja is about to retire, and before doing so he established Parikshit and Vajra as rulers.
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