| Names |
BHAKTISIDDHANTA
SARASWATI (Born Bimala Prasad
Datta) |
| Date of Birth |
February 06, 1874 |
| Date of
Death |
January 01, 1937 |
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Identity |
Indian Guru and Spiritual Reformer of Gaudiya
Vaishnavism. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- September 08, 1911: He was
invited to a conference in Balighai, Midnapore, that
gathered Vaishnavas from Bengal and beyond to debate the
eligibility of the brahmanas and that of the Vaishnavas to
worship a shalagram shila (a sacred stone representing
Vishnu, Krishna or other deities).
- 1913: He established a
printing press in Calcutta, and called it bhagavat-yantra
("God's machine") and began to publish medieval Vaishnava
texts in Bengali, such as the Chaitanya Charitamrita by
Krishnadasa Kaviraja, supplemented with his own commentary.
- June 23, 1914: After the
demise of his father
Bhaktivinoda Thakur on this day, he relocated his
Calcutta press to Krishnanagar in the Nadia district.
- March 27, 1918: Before
leaving for Calcutta, he resolved to become the first
sannyasi of his mission, inaugurating a new Gaudiya
Vaishnava monastic order.
- December 1918: He
inaugurated his first center called "Calcutta Bhaktivinoda
Asana" in North Calcutta.
- February 05, 1919: His
missionary movement, initially called Vishva Vaishnava Raj
Sabha and subsequently rechristened as Shri Gaudiya Math,
was registered on this day.
- 1920: He renamed "Calcutta
Bhaktivinoda Asana" as "Shri Gaudiya Math".
- January 1933: His views in
an essay called "Gandhiji's Ten Questions" were published in
The Harmonist.
- 1927: He launched a
periodical in English and requested British officers to
patronise his movement, which they gradually did.
- January 15, 1935: Governor
of Bengal John Anderson made an official visit to his
headquarters in Mayapur.
- July 20, 1933: Three of his
senior disciples including Swami Bhakti Hridaya Bon arrived
in London.
- April 24, 1934: Lord
Zetland, the British secretary of state for India,
inaugurated the Gaudiya Mission Society in London and became
its president.
- September 18, 1935: Gaudiya
Math and Calcutta dignitaries offered a reception to two
German converts, Ernst Georg Schulze and Baron H.E. von
Queth, who arrived along with Swami Bon.
- December 31, 1936: He wrote
his last will.
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