Rasikananda Swami

Rasikananda Swami (Swami Bhakta Bandhav Rasikananda Maharaja) is a Bhakti-yoga teacher, publisher, and mentor. Swami inspires, trains, and empowers people on their spiritual journey, shares Lord Chaitanya's message of divine love, and serves to build and strengthen spiritual communities. As a boy, his spiritual master Bhakta Bandhav Srila Gurudeva - BV Narayana Gosvami, a spiritual successor of Srila Swami Prabhupada, would often request him to become a monk and serve his mission. He received brahminical initiation at ten, annually traveled on pilgrimage to India as a youth, and then lived in a monastery in Vraja for 16 years before being sent back to the United States by his siksa-guru to begin building the mission for Bhakta Bandhav Srila Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada in the US and around the world. In 2022 he received the sannyasa order and began accepting students on the request of his spiritual masters and senior members of the Bhakta Bandhav mission and spiritual family.