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Sriman Ananta Santi das prabhu Departs

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The saint of the Russian Hare Krishna devotees just left his body due to a heart attack. He introduced Krishna consciousness to thousands of devotees and was Srila Prabhupada's only directly initiated disciple in the Soviet Union.It is amazing that he lived his long considering how much the barbaric Soviet authorities tortured him for being a Hare Krishna devotee, with insulin shock drugs before releasing him

Satyaraja dasa : "Prabhupada's five days on Russian soil provided him ample opportunity to position himself well for the eventual checkmate his movement would play in Soviet Russia. His initial strategy emerged when, through his disciple and secretary Syamasundara Dasa, he met a young Russian seeker Anatoly Pinyayev who would soon become Ananta-santi Dasa, his courageous, lone student in the Soviet Union. Another forward move was Prabhupada's talk with Professor G. G. Kotovsky, then head of the Indian and South Asian Studies Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Prabhupada left a distinct impression on Professor Kotovsky, who got their conversation published in an important Russian periodical ("Vaishnavism" in Otkrytyi Forum 1, 1997, pp. 109–114). But it was Ananta-santi who took Prabhupada's message to heart, single-handedly, vigorously, sharing what he had learned with hundreds of Soviet people, many who became devotees. After meeting the enthusiastic Russian, Prabhupada had remarked, "Just as you can judge whether rice is properly cooked by picking out one small grain, so you can know an entire nation by observing one of its handpicked youths."

"Among the devotees released was Ananta-Santi dasa (Anatoli Pinyayev), the first member of the Hare Krsna movement in the Soviet Union. Ananta-Santi has been in and out of Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals since 1980 because of his practicing Krsna consciousness. His recent release was from the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Smolensk, where he had served four years of an indefinite sentence. While there, he was subjected to insulin shock treatments and injections of neuroleptic drugs. Ananta-Santi's release was due in part to a meeting between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke, during which Mr. Hawke requested Ananta-Santi's release." 1988 BTG article

Krishna.ru (automatic translation): The first Soviet Vaishnava Anantashanti Prabhu, died today in Moscow by a stroke

Through his heroic efforts Vaishnava tradition has emerged rapidly literally all over the country …

Anantashanti Prabhu (Anatoly Pinyaev)

About care Anantashanti Prabhu told his friends. He died at the age of 65 in a Moscow clinic at night. The details were reported. Exactly three years ago Anantashanti Prabhu has already delivered a cardiac intensive care unit, where he was diagnosed with "extensive infarction of the left ventricle of the heart," but quickly got better.

Anantashanti Prabhu, the first Soviet Vaishnava and the only native of the Society of consciousness of Krishna, who personally met with AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and received his blessing to preach the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.

History of meeting future Anantashanti Prabhu and Srila Prabhupada described in detail in the book Satsvarupa dasa Goswami "Prabhupada-lilamrta." This happened in June 1971 in Moscow. Thanks to the hot passion and heroic efforts Anantashanti Prabhu, this tradition began to spread rapidly across the country literally. In the early 1980s, the movement of the consciousness of Krishna descended repression, and one of the first to be arrested and Anantashanti Prabhu. The first trial was held in Moscow in the winter of 1982, when the two were tried Hare Krishna (Vishwamitra Sadananandu Prabhu and Prabhu). Then the "closed court" tried Anantashanti. In fact, its not even tried, but simply declared "insane" and made the decision to place him in a mental hospital. He was arrested in April, May, he somehow escaped, but at the beginning of the following year he was again tracked down and imprisoned in a mental hospital Smolensk.

Currently, decide upon the procedure of cremation and burial. According to the chief pujari (priest) of the Moscow church Vishnuraty Sriman Krishna Prabhu, three days in the temple will be a memorial yajna (ritual) with the participation of our country in the first followers of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

We sincerely express our condolences to the family and friends Anantashanti Prabhu, all first in our country Vaisnavas, the fate of which Anantashanti Prabhu has played such a crucial and important role.