A Vaisnava Soldier Departs

What a more auspicious day than Janmastami day to leave this mortal world, surrounded by loving family, devotee friends and the holy names of Krishna. This is the atmosphere in which Sankirtan Prabhu departed on September 5th 2015 at 10.15am, at his sister’s home, Vanamali devi dasi, in Lungern outside Zurich, Switzerland, his native country. The last words Sankirtan Prabhu uttered as he prepared for departure were, “When I hear Srila Prabhupada’s bhajans and his singing I feel that he is calling me to…” Sankirtan Prabhu met the devotees while traveling around the world in the early 1980s when he came across Srila Prabhupada’s books in Peru, Bolivia. He later travelled to Australia and New Zealand and finally met his initiating spiritual master, Lokanath Swami.