H.D. Goswami
Howard Resnick, Ph.D.
- Spiritual Pioneer
One of the most senior, living teachers of bhakti-yoga is H.D. Goswami (Howard Resnick), the founder of Kṛṣṇa West. An early pioneer and renowned teacher of bhakti-yoga in the Western world, he began his strict practice of bhakti-yoga in 1969, while a student at the University of California in Berkeley, being inspired by a lecture given on campus by his future Guru, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON.
- International Pioneer
After lecturing in universities around North America for two years, he accepted responsibility for establishing bhakti-yoga centers throughout Latin America, and also printing sacred texts in Spanish and Portuguese translations.
- Scholar
During this time, he also became the first Western practitioner to translate, with commentaries, the epic Bhāgavata-purāṇa. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University and has since published academic papers with Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, and the University of California Press.
-Innovator
In 2013, HD Goswami founded Krishna West to facilitate the practice of Bhakti-yoga in Western Countries, and a growing number of centers have opened in North and South America and Europe.
- Author
Fluent in several languages, he regularly teaches throughout the world and is currently working on the second volume of The Great Bhārata, his modern prose translation of the Mahā-bhārata. He has also published a popular novel, Justin Davis, and numerous other books. His popular Bhagavad-gītā Guide has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Hebrew. (Click here to visit H.D. Goswami's Amazon page.)
Praise for Great Bhārata
"The author skillfully leads his readers into the multi-layered story lines of the largest Epic preserved in human literature. The Great Bhārata bursts with Epic ingredients of intrigue, betrayal, honour, love, banishment, revenge, mystic powers, battlefield heroics, the ever porous boundaries between the realms of mortals and gods, and an all-encompassing concern with dharma, duty."
Dr. Edwin Bryant
Rutgers University
Praise for Justin Davis
Good characters and an interesting plot line with many unexpected twists and turns. Throughout the ancient Bhakti teachings are gradually and systematically revealed. I look forward to more such novels.
Krishna Dharma
Author
Praise for Great Bhārata
"This first of many volumes sets the stage for India’s grand epic narrative, the Mahabharata. With the grandeur of the Game of Thrones, through the prism of ancient Sanskrit texts, Howard Resnick gives thrilling descriptions that delve deep into perennial archetypes of divinity and royalty, exploring truth, loyalty, and the universal good."
Christopher Chapple, PhD
Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Praise for Great Bhārata
Great Bhãrata may well prove to be the most relevant rendering of this ancient text in English available at this time.
Sharon Gannon
Author and co-founder of the Jivamukti Yoga method
Praise for A Comprehensive Guide to Bhagavad-gītā
After introducing the reader to the historical context and origin of the Bhagavad-gita, he systematically explains what the Gita says about individual persons, nature and how we interact with it, offerings, God in his different features, yoga and various practices of yoga, liberation, and the conclusion of the Gita. H. D. Goswami’s realization of both the text and how to bring it home to his audience shows in every aspect of his presentation. After reading H.D. Goswami's Comprehensive Guide to Bhagavad-Gita, I felt a deeper understanding of the Gita than I had in the more than thirty years I had studied the Gita. A most valuable book for those seeking truth, inner peace, and harmony.
D Consbruck