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Bhakti Chaitanya Swami (born 14 August 1951 in Auckland New Zealand) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava swami and a religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna movement or ISKCON). He is a member of its Governing Body Commission and is the leader of ISKCON in South Africa the Baltic states and Russia.He was born as Richard Naismith on 14 August 1951 in Auckland New Zealand. In 1972 he first met ISKCON founder A. C.