Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar

Srila
Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar
Dev-Goswami Maharaj
Personal
Born
Ramendra Chandra Bhattacarya

(1895-10-10)10 October 1895
Died12 August 1988(1988-08-12) (aged 92)
Resting placeTemple of Union in Separation, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip
23°23′26″N 88°21′48″E / 23.390573°N 88.363274°E / 23.390573; 88.363274
ReligionHinduism
NationalityIndian
DenominationGaudiya Vaishnavism
LineageGaudiya-Saraswata Sampradaya
Notable work(s)The Search for Sri Krishna, Sri Guru and His Grace, The Golden Volcano of Divine Love
Alma materKrishnath College (BA), Berhampore, Bengal Presidency
Organization
TempleGaudiya Math, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math
Religious career
PredecessorBhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
InitiationDiksha (as Ramendra Sundara), 1926
Sannyasa (as Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar), 1930
Postfounder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math
WebsiteSri Chaitanya Saraswati Math

Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

Recognised as a "profound thinker" and "learned representative of the theistic conception of Gaudiya Vaishnavism",[1] Sridhar was a senior disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati and elder "godbrother" (i.e. received initiation from the same guru) to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,[2][3] founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (the ‘Hare Krishnas’), to whose young disciples he provided spiritual guidance after Prabhupada's passing in 1977.[promotion?]

  1. ^ Vishnu, Bhakti Bhavana (2004). The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant. Columbia University Press. pp. 170–187.
  2. ^ Melton, J. Gordon (1999). Religious Leaders of America: A Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches, and Spiritual Groups in North America. Gale Research. pp. 534–535.
  3. ^ Goswami, Satsvarupa dasa. Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta, volume 1: A Biography of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. ISBN 9789171496768.

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