Shrila Ananta Das Babaji

Shrila Ananta Das Babaji (1927-2018) is one of the prominent Radha-kunda babajis in the disciplic succession descending from Shri Nityananda Prabhu and Shrimati Jahnava Mata through the descendants of Shri Dhananjaya Pandit. He has initiated some 3500 disciples into the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, including people from Vraja, from Bengal, and from dozens of Western countries. He has been elected as the Mahanta of Radha-kunda, thus being the 34th representive of the seat of Shri Raghunatha Dasa Goswami. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost teachers of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition on account of his voluminous and comprehensive writings as well as due to his humility and purity of heart.