Bhagavatam katha - Profile of katha speaker

Birth and childhood

Madhucchanda das ( Mota baba ) is born in ancient land of Macedonia. ( country where are born many famous personalitis as mother Teresa and Alexandar the Great ). In time of birth auspisious planet of Guru ( Brihaspati ) wa on his lagna who is guiding him through all his life.

As a child he was not just interested in normal play as other children. He was on spiritual search.He was dreamimg for travel in India..
Born in christan ortodox religion he try to find answers to life questions as: Who is God? Who am I? Is life eternal? Is there life after death? It has come from previous life samskaras. But he coudnt. So he turned his study to other world religions but nowhere his thirst was satisfy.

Srimad Bhagavatam

With age of 16 he come across Srimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavat gita and they will become his life guidence. They are answers to all his questions. His thirst for God and bhakti has finaly arrived at its goal. With age of 16 he learned by hearth Srimad Bhagavatam and memorize Bhagavad Gita.

Study and life in India

He traveled in India where he lived for many years and study under many saints subjects such as sanskrit, yoga, jyotish and finaly Srimad Bhagavatam. He traveled across India where he visited hundreds of holy places, meet many sadhus and spread glory of bhagavatam dharma. Finaly he
arrived at holy Sri Vrindava dham, place of Krishnas eternal pastimes. His hearth become so much atracted to Vraja that he do not wanted to go anywhere in the world. In search for Krishna he travelled vandering in all holy places of Vraja Mandala parikrama and thus has build his relationship to divine couple Sri Sri Radha Krishna and who has bring him closer to their lotus feet.

Iskcon and his Guru

His Search has bring him to the Hare Krishna movement, formaly known as The International society for Krishna consciousmess ( Iskcon ) and its founder - acarya Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He has become Iskcon member. By divene arangment and guidence he come to meet his divine guru His Hollines Srila Sacinandana Swami. He has given him many valuble spiritual instruction. From Sacinandana Swami he recived diksha initiation and in this way he become member of glorious guru – sisya parampara known as Brahma – Madhva Gaudiya sampradaya . Activitis of his teacher you can find on www.sacinandanaswami.info.

Present


At present time he is based in Croatia where he live with his wife Acyuta – priya devi dasi and his son Manu. His work and service take him on travels all over world to many countris such as Greece, Japan, Malaysia, Hungary, Hong Kong, Germany, Croatia and in many of this places he has lectured on Srimad Bhagavatam.