At the age of 24 he received the sacred order of sannyas, or renunciation. His Sannyas name is Bhaktiloka Paramadvaiti Swami. The life of Guru Maharaja has been very dynamic, as he has occupied himself continuously with opening centers and spreading the transcendental message of the Vedas. He is placed within the twelfth generation of masters of the Brahma Gaudiya Sampradaya disciplic succession, descending from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

 

His Divine Grace B.A. Paramadvaiti Maharaja is the "Vaishnav sannyas guru" of Ramakrishnananda Swami. Swami Paramadvaiti is the founder of the Institute for Higher Vedic Studies in America, and also the Vrinda Institute in India which has centers all over the world. He is the co-founder of the World Wide Vaishnava Association that helps with communication between the different transcendental families that are located around the globe. He has written many books such as: The First Spiritual Master in Colombia, The Free Woman, The Bhagavad Gita: The Supreme Science, Initiation: The Second Birth,  as well as books about ecology, meditation, and the history of Vaisnavism, yoga courses and  many pamphlets and articles about current issues and problems in the world. He also edited the Confidential Science of Bhakti Yoga, The Secrets of a Yogi, Mysterious India and many others. He maintains many websites in German, English and Spanish. Srila Guru Maharaja is involved in a great variety of activities that require his continuous attention as lecturer and unceasing advisor for a communal life based on spiritual and ecological principles. Apart from being a monk, and the founder of more than 100 Yoga centers, he is an artist and the founder of the Harmony School of Conscious Arts. He participated in the production of numerous artistic documentaries; he has written and directed musical and theatrical projects, he designed and constructed projects with profound symbolic meaning and ecologic art such as the Eco Truly Ashram planetarium in Lima, Peru. Guru Maharaja was the first western monk to open centers in India, where he established a restoration project of the beautiful gems of Vaishnava architecture such as the famous Vrinda Kunya, that served as an oasis to receive the Spanish speaking pilgrims, and which is especially dedicated to offering the services of the Vaishnava academy to all his students and disciples  arriving from America.  He is presently traveling throughout America and Europe, giving lectures in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese; broadening the understanding and distribution of the transcendental literature, as well as performing the sacred function of accepting disciples. His profound realizations help many people in the path toward perfection in Yoga. His work continues to expand, thanks to the love that he feels toward all humanity and his desire to serve his spiritual master. He is involved in the vegetarian society and many programs of social concern. His disciples, followers and friends are numbered in the hundreds, and they help him with his mission.  Through his loving way of presenting the Vaishnava teachings he has created affectionate bonds with many people including kings in India and important personalities in politics, art and religion. What is most rare is that he has obtained recognition for all of that without reducing his qualities of humbleness, purity, wisdom, simplicity and his sincere desire to help others.