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“It must be protected,” said Brahmachari Mukundanand, a local priest who called Joshimath the “brain of North India” and explained that “Our body can still function if some limbs are cut off. But if anything happens to our brain, we can’t function. … Its survival is extremely important.”

“It must be protected,” said Brahmachari Mukundanand, a local priest who called Joshimath the “brain of North India” and explained that “our body can still function if some limbs are cut off. But if anything happens to our brain, we can’t function. … Its survival is extremely important.”

He thought perhaps Brahmachari would lead him into Hinduism, certainly into some form of Eastern mysticism, but, to his surprise, the monk told him that he should read more in the Christian tradition.

But then he met, and developed a great admiration for, a Hindu monk named Mahanambrata Brahmachari.

When Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan led his first worship service in his new job as a Hindu chaplain Sunday, he knew his audience.