Hitkinkar Baba Sri Sevak Sharan Ji (1934-2020): A Vaishnava Naturalist from Vrindavan

Abstract

On October 8, 2020, naturalist, environmental activist, spiritual teacher,visionary, and beloved friend of many, Sri Sevak Sharan Ji, passed away in Vrindavan, India. Sevakji’s major achievement to the Vaishnava world was his offering of eco-spiritual work and environmental perspectives. Since the late 1970s, he and his now late wife, Malti Devi (Mataji), established a nursery and a beautiful natural ashram on the Parikrama Marg, found on the then remote outskirts of Vrindavan town. This property, known as Lata Bhavan, a name which Sevakji translated as “Abode of Flora and Fauna,” would became one of the last groves of magnificent nature in this rapidly expanding pilgrimage location.