Hari-sauri dasa was born in England on November 17th, 1950. In May 1971 he emigrated to Australia where, on the second day of arrival, he met the members of the newly-emerging Krsna consciousness movement. He was duly accepted as an initiated disciple by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on April 9th, 1972 in Sydney.

In August of 1975 he moved to the newly-opened ISKCON Krishna-Balaram temple in Vrndavana, India, where he served as temple commander. In November of the same year, he joined Srila Prabhupada’s personal entourage, remaining as His Divine Grace’s servant for sixteen months.

In March of 1977 Srila Prabhupada appointed him ISKCON’s Governing Body Commissioner for Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, a service he performed for over seven years. During that period he oversaw the growth of the ISKCON society in the South Seas from four temples and asramas, to seventeen, including four farming communities, two schools and several restaurants. He was also instrumental in establishing branches of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in Australia and Indonesia.

In 1986 he began the work of transforming the diary he kept while traveling with Srila Prabhupada into a book.

In 1990 he moved to America and worked as publisher for Back to Godhead magazine, the Krsna consciousness movement’s spiritual periodical, for a year.

He is currently living in Mayapur with his wife Sitala dasi and daughter Rasarani. In 2006-7 Hari-sauri dasa taught Sri Isopanisad for the Mayapur Institute.