HG Ranji Prabhu recounts an experience from 1976 in Vrindavan when he went to receive the Gayatri mantra initiation from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. When he offered respects and loudly glorified Prabhupada, Prabhupada immediately redirected the honor toward his own spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, illustrating how a genuine spiritual teacher passes all respect up the disciplic succession to Krishna. The storyteller saw this as evidence that Prabhupada acted as a tra
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It is with tremendous sadness that we acknowledge the very auspicious passing away of Ranjit das, ACBSP, today, February 25 at 6:45pm ET in Alachua, Florida. He was surrounded by many devotees chanting soft kirtan, in a celestial environment created by his good wife Gopisvari devi dasi and daughter Prema.
Ranjit prabhu was a Prabhupada man. He has joined him now. He dedicated his life to preserving Srila Prabhupada’s books and photos. He worked with the Bhaktivedanta Archives for many years in N
