In Sridhar Swami`s life,
Srila Prabhupada`s sparked a thirty-five-year spiritual journey
that began far from its ending point in holy India. Sridhar Swami
described himself as a shy person before coming to Krsna
consciousness. Born John Colcleugh in 1948 in Vancouver, Canada,
his quest for spiritual understanding led him, in 1969, from
engineering school to a Sunday feast at the Frederick Street San
Francisco Krsna temple. The first person he met at the door was a
kind and energetic devotee named Jayananda Dasa. Since it was early
in the day, Jayananda invited his young guest to vacuum the rug and
help in the kitchen. By the end of the evening, John was ready for
more. He moved in to the San Francisco ashram to begin his study of
Srila Prabhupada`s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Later, he transferred to
the fledgling Krsna center in his native Vancouver. In 1970 he
returned to San Francisco for the Rathayatra festival and met Srila
Prabhupada for the first time. John was deeply impressed and,
having completed the required training, was initiated by Srila
Prabhupada as Sridhar Das Brahmacari. His Holiness Sridhar Swami
left this world on March 14, 2004, it was on his terms--in holy
Mayapur, surrounded by loving Vaisnavas, and just after he'd helped
install Sri Panca-tattva with his dearest Godbrothers and
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