He was located in London and was responsible for initiating disciples and managing ISKCON in Great Britain and South Africa.

By the age of 70 Swami Bon had over one thousand initiated mostly Bengali and other Indian born disciples, out of which were 10 Tridandi Sannyasis (monks).

In consultation with the official governing body of the Krishna consciousness society, he agreed to cease initiating disciples.

Upon returning to India in 1972, Sheela and Silverman became sannyasins or initiated disciples of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now commonly known as Osho.

He began initiating disciples (known as neo-sannyasins) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher.

In evening darshans, Osho conversed with individual disciples or visitors and initiated disciples ("gave sannyas").

He started initiating disciples on the spiritual path as well.

After the disappearance of Prabhupada (his Gurudev) from this world in 1977, he took the role of diksha (initiating) guru and began to initiate disciples.

Currently, there are approximately 80 spiritual masters initiating disciples in the movement, some of whom have more disciples than Srila Prabhupada personally initiated himself.

The article, entitled Mystic Modernist, mentioned that the late Sheikh had initiated several European disciples into the Sufi tradition.