By Prema-vilasini Devi Dasi,
Ranjit Dasa was born on August 31, 1945, in Pretoria, South Africa. He moved to England after graduating from college and later went to a farm near Vancouver, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. He was initiated there in 1974 and saw Srila Prabhupada four or five times, including in San Francisco, Vrindavan, India, Dallas, and England.
His main service in Nelson was Sankirtan, book distribution, and chopping firewood. From there, he briefly went to Dallas, TX in 1976, then returned to South Africa until 1980. In South Africa, he did Life Membership, sankirtan, and bookkeeping.
His next adventure took him to Mayapur, where he stayed from 1980 to 1983. In Mayapur, he was in charge of Srila Prabhupada’s Pushpa Samadhi construction and bookkeeping.
In 1983, Ranjit worked with ITV in Los Angeles and Yadubara Das in India on videography, camera work, and movies.
Rajit Dasa then spent the next 23 years at the Bhaktivedanta Archives in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina, from 1984 to 2007. He was a member of the team that included His Grace Ekanatha Das, who also departed for the spiritual world a week prior. This team was instrumental in creating the Vedabase and scanning and preserving every image, document, and Krishna Art in existence at that time. The team published 60 volumes of Srila Prabhupada’s conversations, lectures, and other publications.
While in North Carolina, he married Gopisvari Devi Dasi in LA, his wife of 39 years. Prema-vilasini Devi Dasi was born in 1988 and became Ethan’s kid sister.
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