Anagha Bhosale Instagram – Srila Prabhupada- Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami was an Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava guru who founded ISKCON,commonly known as the “Hare Krishna movement”. Bhaktivedanta Swami was a representative and messenger of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He has been described as a charismatic leader by his followers,who was successful in acquiring followers in many Western countries and India. After his death in 1977, ISKCON, the society he founded based on a form of Hindu Krishna Bhakti using the Bhagavata Purana as a central scripture, continued to grow. In February 2014, ISKCON’s news agency reported reaching a milestone of distributing over half a billion of his books since 1965.