His chosen successor was his disciple, Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami, who led the math until his death in 2010. In 1941, after the death of his guru, Sridhar founded his own international mission, becoming acharya of the monastic and missionary society "Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math," in Nabadwip, now in West Bengal. He finally became Bhakti Rakshak, meaning 'Guardian of Devotion', after taking sannyasa in 1930.
It means Radha-ramana Rama – Krsna, the lover of Radharani.” īefore being sent by Saraswati to locate the site where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu spoke with Ramananda Ray on the banks of the Godavari ( Rāmānanda Saṁvāda), his guru gave him the new name Ramananda Das ( Rāmānanda dāsa), meaning servant of Ramananda. I asked him, “What is the meaning of Ramendra?” He told me, “In our consideration, Rama does not mean Dasarathi Rama or Lord Ramacandra, the son of King Dasaratha. When I was given initiation, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura gave me the name Ramendra Sundara. On the meaning of his first spiritual name, Sridhar recalled: “My original name was Ramendra Candra. Early life īorn Ramendra Chandra ( Rāmendra Candra) into a family of a high-class Bengali brahmins (his family bore the aristocratic title, or upādhi, of Bhattacharya), Sridhar joined his guru's mission, the Gaudiya Math, in 1926, taking diksha initiation from Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati as Ramendra Sundara ( Rāmendra Sundara). Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 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. received initiation from the same guru) to A.
Recognised as a "profound thinker" and "learned representative of the theistic conception of Gaudiya Vaishnavism", Sridhar was a senior disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati and elder "godbrother" (i.e. 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.
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