Education
University of Auckland.
University of Auckland.
He was born as Richard Naismith on 14 August 1951 in Auckland, New Zealand. A year later he joined that society in London and received initiation from Prabhupada, who gave him the sanskrit name of Raghubhir Dasa. In 1994, during the Gaura Purnima Festival, he took the renounced order of sannyasa from Giriraja Swami and received the name Bhakti Caitanya Swami.