Dear devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his courageous sankirtana soldiers !

As wrote Radha Caran Dasa in his article appearing on the ISKCON website dandavats.com on September 6th, our godbrother Sankirtana Dasa was certainly a valiant vaisnava soldier. Fully dedicated to the mission, willing to take risks and undergo austerities to spread the holy names and the glories of Sri Sri Radha Krisha. His name fitted him very well. I now deeply regret that I did not spend more time with him or got to know him better. He was truly humble and satisfied in himself. I never heard him complain, talk or gossip about others. He had no time and no desire for that and was certainly a qualified candidate to take sannyasa. Krishna had chosen to free him from all material attachments, including his very body.

I’m very happy he left this world in such an auspicious moment, the morning of Janmastami. I’m sure he’s now in the company of Sri Sri Radha Krishna and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

To honor his memory and help us remember and appreciate him better, I’d like to share with all of you this section of the future padayatra book of Lokanath Swami, of which I am the editor. You’ll see that Sankirtana very much wanted to continue padayatra around Taiwan. Maybe some devotees from this area will be inspired to do a walk there (or in any other country for that matter) in his memory.

Your servant, Gaurangi dasi