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About Blog: To explore the meaning of this simple motto, which states that Divine Love is the goal of life.

I was born in Sheffield, England, in 1950. My family emigrated to Canada in 1957. We lived first in Toronto then Montreal, and my teenage years were spent in the latter city's west end, the English-speaking part of town.

I made a stab at university in 1966, but the Zeitgeist got the better of me and I spent the years from 1967 to 1970 in the hippy subculture traveling back and forth across the United States and Canada, "looking for myself."

Though my interest in Indian culture and religion had been developing for years beforehand, it took a serious turn in 1970 when I became a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

My ISKCON career lasted nine years. After the requisite brahmachari and sankirtan training, I became a Sanskrit editor for Iskcon Press publications in 1972, and not long afterwards became the first Sanskrit teacher at the ISKCON Gurukula in Dallas. In 1975 I came to India and spent four years as the headmaster of the Gurukula [See 2.9] at Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir. The name A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada gave me was Hiranyagarbha Das.