ISKCON News, the news agency for our vibrant Hare Krishna movement, recently published an article, profiling our very own Bhaktimarga Swami! Check it out:
To ISKCON devotees everywhere, the name Bhaktimarga Swami conjures up images of powerful, out-of-the-box stage productions; and of energetic kirtans, full of stomping dance moves and jubilant smiles.
But a lifetime ago, as the boy John Vis growing up in rural Canada, he was a shy, retiring child.
“If I had gotten the chance to be on stage, I would have definitely frozen up,” he says. “But in my one room schoolhouse near Chatham, Ontario, I didn’t even get the opportunity—drama wasn’t part of the curriculum. Later, in highschool, I was supposed to play the role of a prince in a drama, but I shyed out of the whole thing!” [Read More]