Vaishnavas are the representatives of one of the modern traditions of the world’s oldest religion – Hinduism.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Vaishnavas appeared in Georgia through Abkhazia. Krishna Consciousness bore a sort of a dissident spirit for the Soviet and the Georgian youth back then.
Otar Nachkebia, with the spiritual name Ambarish Prabhu, was the first Georgian who founded the School of Vaishnavism in Georgia.
The Soviet Government was persecuting Vaishnavas just like any other religious group. The young people, who were leading the movement, were put in jail or psychiatric hospitals, with some of them finding their death there.
The number of Vaishnavas in Georgia significantly decreased due to several reasons. The religious community did not practice proselytism and abstained from too much publicity.
