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Riktananda Dasa (center in red sweater) helping to pull the cart with Srila Prabhupada at 1975 San Francisco Rathayatra.

Just before noon on April 3, 2025, Riktananda Dasa Adhikari (Richard W. Arthur), a most dear disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, departed this world for Goloka Vrindavan.

After breaking his spine and hospitalization, Riktananda Dasa decided for himself to forgo any rehab or treatment and leave his body. For over a month, he ate nothing but small

Ravi with his wife and daughter; Ravi with his wife and son.

It is with deep sorrow that we share the devastating news of the passing of Ravi Simkhara in the recent earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Ravi was in Mandalay for a business meeting when a collapsing wall tragically took his life. The news of this loss reached his family late in the evening. Because the airport was closed, his wife, Nistha Rani Radha Dasi, mother-in-law, and other family members embarked on a dangerous journey to Mand

Her Grace Krishna Priya Devi Dasi entered the spiritual realm of Goloka Vrindavana to serve her beloved Lordships on March 12, 2025, at 3:41 pm in North Carolina. Devotees present said, “She was very peaceful, pain-free, and looking effulgent during her departure as if she knew where she was heading to and what to do there. She was surrounded by loving devotees holding her while Srila Prabhupada’s chanting was going on. A perfectly glorious departure!!”

Glorifications from godsiblings and devote

My beloved husband, the British devotee His Grace Adwaita Acharya Das (Alan Hole), departed on July 9th. 

My husband joined the movement in Cardiff at the beginning of 1970. Kulashekar Das had started a temple there. He joined together with a rather large group of men named “the Cardiff boys.” They were my husband, who was named Adwaita Acharya Das, Narahari, Vichitraveria, Smarahari, Bhajahari, Gunanava and a few more. After a while, the temple in Cardiff was closed, and they all moved to the B