| Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected
Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, in March of 1969, while studying at Brandeis University
in Boston, and considered that he learned more from Srila Prabhupada in
five minutes than he had learned in his twenty years of academic
education. After graduating from Brandeis cum laude, Glenn took formal
initiation from Srila Prabhupada and was given the spiritual name
“Giriraj Das.” In 1972, after Giriraj had toured India with Srila
Prabhupada, Prabhupada appointed him President of ISKCON Bombay as well
as a trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. After Srila Prabhupada’s
departure in 1977, Giriraj was awarded the renounced order of life and
appointed president of ISKCON’s board of trustees in India. In 1982 he
was made a member of the ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission, the
ultimate managing authority for the movement, and went on to oversee
the Society’s activities in Bombay, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain,
Portugal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Visit
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