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jayadvaita swami

jayadvaita swami , a gaudiya vaishnava swami , is an editor , publisher , and teacher and a disciple of a. c. bhaktivedanta swami prabhupada , founder of the international society for krishna consciousness -lrb- iskcon -rrb- .
he has been the seniormost editor for the bhaktivedanta book trust for more than forty years and now serves as its trustee for publishing in africa .
he has been described as `` one of iskcon 's most independent-minded and respected thinkers . ''
he is the author of `` vanity karma : ecclesiastes , the bhagavad-gita , and the meaning of life , '' a cross-cultural commentary on the biblical book of ecclesiastes .
jayadvaita swami was born jay israel to a reform jewish family .
he spent his childhood in englewood , new jersey .
in 1968 in new york city he was first introduced to krishna consciousness and received initiation from srila prabhupada .
jay shaved his head , received the spiritual name jayadvaita , and began to study the teachings of krishna .
practically the first task assigned to him in iskcon was to staple booklets .
later he went on to become the editor of dozens of books and magazines .
he was engaged in transcribing srila prabhupada 's dictation for books , and then typesetting , proofreading , managing book production , and editing .
although before joining iskcon jayadvaita attended some college classes at carnegie institute of technology , `` he is in the most general sense self-educated and taught himself everything he needed to know in order to become a literary editor '' .
in 1978 he accepted the order of renounced life , sannyasa , from satsvarupa dasa goswami .
in 1985 and 1986 , he spent a year and a half traveling with a party of pilgrims on padayatra , a journey on foot , through various states of india , stopping in a different town or village every night .
from 1991 through most of 1998 he served as editor in chief of back to godhead magazine , for which he had been an assistant editor for several years .
he later served as editor for a three-volume translation and commentary for `` brihad-bhagavatamrita '' , a sixteenth-century sanskrit philosophical and devotional work .
still later , he served as editor for tattva sandarbha , another sixteenth-century sanskrit philosophical work .
jayadvaita swami has also been involved in debates with the proponents of the `` ritvik '' doctrine , an unusual notion about discipular succession he regards as contrary both to tradition and to srila prabhupada 's teachings .
apart from his services in publishing , jayadvaita swami travels widely , teaching and lecturing in over 50 countries .
