Who is His Divine Grace Srila A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.
At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language. In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started an English fortnightly magazine.
Recognizing Srila Prabhupada's philosophical learning and devotion, the Gaudiya Vaisnava Society honored him in 1947 with the title "Bhaktivedanta." In 1950, at the age of fifty-four, Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, and four years later he adopted the vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more time to his studies and writing. Srila Prabhupada traveled to the holy city of Vrndavana, where he lived in very humble circumstances in the historic medieval temple of Radha-Damodara. There he engaged for several years in deep study and writing. He accepted the renounced order of life (sannyasa) in 1959. At Radha-Damodara, Srila Prabhupada began work on his life's masterpiece: a multivolume translation and commentary on the 18,000-verse Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). He also wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets.
After publishing three volumes of Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada came to the United States, in 1965, to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master. Since that time, His Divine Grace has written over sixty volumes of authoritative translations, commentaries and summary studies of the philosophical and religious classics of India.
In 1965, when he first arrived by freighter in New York City, Srila Prabhupada was practically penniless. It was after almost a year of great difficulty that he established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in July of 1966. Under his careful guidance, the Society grew within a decade to a worldwide confederation of almost one hundred asramas, schools, temples, institutes and farm communities.
In 1968, Srila Prabhupada created New Vrndavana, an experimental Vedic community in the hills of West Virginia. Inspired by the success of New Vrndavana, then a thriving farm community of more than one thousand acres, his students founded several similar communities in the United States and abroad.

In 1972, His Divine Grace introduced the Vedic system of primary and secondary education in the West by founding the Gurukula school in Dallas, Texas. The school began with three children in 1972, and by the beginning of 1975 the enrollment had grown to one hundred fifty.
Srila Prabhupada also inspired the construction of a large international center at Sridhama Mayapur in West Bengal, India, which is also the site for a planned Institute of Vedic Studies. A similar project is the magnificent Krsna-Balarama Temple and International Guest House in Vrndavana, India. These are centers where Westerners can live to gain firsthand experience of Vedic culture.
Srila Prabhupada's most significant contribution, however, is his books. Highly respected by the academic community for their authoritativeness, depth and clarity, they are used as standard textbooks in numerous college courses. His writings have been translated into eleven languages. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, established in 1972 exclusively to publish the works of His Divine Grace, has thus become the world's largest publisher of books in the field of Indian religion and philosophy.

In the last ten years of his life, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe twelve times on lecture tours that took him to six continents. In spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature and culture.
Srila Prabhupada left us a veritable library of Vedic philosophy and culture. Highly respected by scholars for their authority, depth, and clarity, his books are used at colleges and universities around the world.

On the date of 14th November 1977 Srila Prabhupada left His physical Body and His Divine and merciful instructions for management of His ISKCON Movement was sadly neglected. Since then in the last 37 years ISKCON has become a Society of cheaters and the cheated. Many devotees have left and branched out creating their own factions trying to dedicate their lives according to the directives/standards taught by our beloved Spiritual Master, however these other branches have to failed to live up to Srila Prabhupada's legacy.

Unfortunately now ISKCON, Hare Krishna Society, Gaudiya Math, Prabhupadanugas are creating chaos among themselves by fighting each other, using Srila Prabhupada's teachings to win a debate rather than to execute them in their day to day lives. Srila Prabhupada asked us all to co-operate and due to the heavy influence of Maya this will not happen in the forseeable future. The purpose of RASA...Ritvik Acarya Sampradaya Association is to teach others to follow Srila Prabhupada's Divine teachings by following His instructions to chant 16 rounds of the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare..and to strictly follow the four regulative principles which are as follows...

1) No meat eating, 2) No gambling, 3) No illicit sex, 4) No intoxication

While Srila Prabhupada was physically present His behavior was exemplary. No-one could fault Him and His mannerism was that of a complete Gentleman. Everything He did was solely in the service of His Guru Maharaja, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and our beloved Lord, Sri Krishna. He has no motivation for any personal desires and fully lived His life in dedication to the Absolute Truth. Our motivation is to simply live spreading the glories of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga following in the footsteps of His Divine Grace by stepping outside of ISKCON, Hare Krishna Society, Gaudiya Math, Prabhupadanugas with the goal of teachings others the great gain there is to be found if one surrenders to the bona fide Guru, Srila Prabhupada, and sincerely/submissively take to this path of Bhakti Yoga.

We wish that all other Societies mentioned above the very best and we pray that one day you will all stop this infighting and remember your positions as the humble servant of the servant, of the servant, of the servant, a billion times the servant. We hope that our own behavior from here will inspire others to join and fully take shelter of Srila Prabhupada as His Ritvik disciple linking you to our bona fide and very strict disciplic succession via Srila Prabhupada's Ritvik Acarya Sampradaya Association...RASA...

Your humble servants at the Lotus Feet of our beloved Srila Prabhupada,

SrilaPrabhupada Siddhanta Das Acbsp
Pancali Devi Dasi Acbsp