Krishnaprem

Sri Krishna Prem (10 May 1898 – 14 November 1965), born Ronald Henry Nixon, was a British spiritual aspirant who went to India in the early 20th century. Together with his spiritual teacher Sri Yashoda Mai (1882 – 1944), he founded an ashram at Mirtola, near Almora, India. He was one of the first Europeans to pursue Vaishnavite Hinduism, and was highly regarded, with many Indian disciples. Later, according to the account of his foremost disciple Sri Madhava Ashish, Krishna Prem transcended the dogmas and practices of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition into which he had been initiated and affirmed a universal spiritual path shorn of "orthodoxy" and blind traditionalism.

Early life Ronald Henry Nixon and educated in Taunton. was confirmed in his rank on 12 June, and was appointed a flying officer in the Royal Flying Corps on 15 June. On one occasion, he experienced an escape from death that he believed was miraculous, in which a "power beyond our ken" saved him from several enemy planes. His experiences of death and destruction during the war filled him with a "sense of futility and meaninglessness". and relinquished his temporary Army commission on 3 December that year.

After the war, Nixon enrolled in King's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.

Life in India In 1921, while still in England, Nixon accepted the offer of a teaching position at the University of Lucknow, in northern India. Haberman states that Nixon "was perhaps the first Westerner to tread the path of Krishna-bhakti, and was certainly the first to have any official affiliation with the Gaudiya Vaishnavism of Braj."

Haberman wrote that Krishna Prem "was recognized as a Hindu saint by many Indians of his day." Nixon's final words were "my ship is sailing".

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Biographical sources

(316 pages) (312 pages) (original edition, 1968) "The Case of Sri Krishna Prem" in

"Krishna Prem, Sri (1898–1965) Western-born Vaishnavite Guru" in "Sri Krishna Prem (Ronald Nixon)" in "Sri Krishna Prem / Ronald Nixon" in "Sri Yashoda Ma 1882–1944" (chapter 20) in