BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASWATI THAKUR
Artist: Pushkar Das
His Divine
Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur is the spiritual master of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder-acharya
of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur founded the Gaudiya Math in
India in the years from 1915 till his passing in 1937. He established temples and spread the Krishna consciousness movement
all over India. He was a life-long celibate, learned scholar and srutidhara, one who
memorizes for life anything he hears or reads. He ordered Srila Prabhupada to spread the Krishna consciousness movement in
the Western world before his passing at Jagannatha Puri in 1937.