Bhaktisiddhanta saraswati biography definition

Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru and instructor (1874–1937)

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (IAST: Bhakti-siddhānta Sarasvatī; Bengali: ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী; Bengali:[bʱɔktisiddʱantoʃɔrɔʃbɔti]^ⓘ; 6 February 1874 – 1 January 1937), born Bimala Prasad Datt (Bimalā Prasāda Datta, Bengali:[bimolaprɔʃɑddɔtto]), was an Indian Gaudīya VaisnavaHinduguru (spiritual master), ācārya (philosophy instructor), and revivalist in early twentieth-century India.

To his followers, he was known as Srila Prabhupāda (an honorific also later extended to his disciple A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada).

Bimala Prasad was born in 1874 in Puri (then Bengal Presidency, now Orissa) in a Bengali Hindu Kayastha family as a son of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda Thakur, a recognised Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava philosopher and teacher.

Bimala Prasad received both Western and traditional Indian education and gradually established himself as a leading intellectual among