A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977)

Unlike the previous two saints, Bhaktivedanta Swami initially had little apparent success in India. Born into a traditional Bengali Vaishnava family, he became a follower of Gandhi. He entered householder life and was deeply affected when he met his spiritual master, who instructed him to preach the message of Chaitanya in English. He later took sannyasa and at the age of 70 begged passage to New York on a cargo ship. Despite obscurity and poverty, he established ISKCON, which became perhaps the most successful of all the new Hindu-related movements springing up in the 1960s. Bhaktivedanta Swami, known affectionately as Srila Prabhupada, established over 100 ashrams worldwide, and translated more than 70 Vedic texts into English. He passed away in 1977, having established a governing body of his senior disciples to manage the movement after him. He emphasised the practice of devotion to a personal God, in the form of both Radha and Krishna, and the chanting of the now-famous Hare Krishna mantra.