At this time David made a broad survey of Eastern philosophical and spiritual teachings. Besides reading very widely in the Indian spiritual traditions, he met and studied Vedic teachings with many svamis and yogis teaching on the West Coast. By great good fortune he met his spiritual master, His Divine Grace Abhaya Charanaravindam De, a fully self-realized pure devotee and renunciant, prolific author, profound devotional musician and philosopher in the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaiṣṇava lineage of Bengal, and was inspired to study bhakti-yoga, the profound wisdom path of the Esoteric Teaching of the Vedas, with him.


David became a Vedic monk, accepting formal hari-nama initiation as Dasanudas Brahmacari from Bhaktivedanta Swami in New Orleans in 1974, and ordination as a Vedic brahmana (priest) in Vrndavana, India in 1977. He lived and studied in traditional Vaiṣṇava and Tantric communities in India and various other parts of the world for over 20 years. He learned Sanskrit, deeply studied Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, performed traditional temple music and dance, and led fire sacrifices and other Vedic ceremonies all over India.


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