Gaudiya Mission


The Gaudiya Mission is a Gaudiya Vaishnava monastic and missionary organization has been registered since March 1940 in Calcutta, British India. Its founder acharya is brahmachari Ananta Vasudev Prabhu alias Bhakti Prasad Puri Maharaja after accepting sannyasa in 1939.
, Kolkata.

History

The Gaudiya Mission is the government registered name of Sri Gaudiya Math, a famous organization that existed from 1920 to 1937. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati selected Ananta Vasudev Prabhu as his successor, but sadly after Prabhupad disappeared Kuñjabihari Vidyabusana, the secretary and the president of the Sri Gaudiya Math did not agree with the decision and separated his own branch. Thus, Ananta Vasudev Prabhu later gave up his post of successor and was forced to establish a new organization became known as the Gaudiya Mission. The 64 Gaudiya Math centers were divided into two groups in 1948 and Gaudiya Mission kept the central temple "Sri Gaudiya Math" with museum at Bagbazar in Kolkata, the headquarter of Mission up to the present day.
Later Ananta Vasudev Prabhu started to criticize some of the teachings of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, married, settled in Vrindavan, joined the "Babajis" and translated into Bengali 62 paper of the six Goswamis of Vrindavana, classical Gaudiya Vaishnava works. After him, the mission was headed by Bhakti Keval Audulaumi. Next acharyas became Bhakti Srirup Bhagavat and Bhakti Suhrid Paribrajak. The present acharya is Bhakti Sundar Sanyasi Maharaj.

Current status

Main posts and organs of mission are President-Acharya, President, Governing Body and Council Body. It has 26 temples in India, UK, and US. Approximately has a total of 60 sannyasis. Created medical services and dispensaries. It is publishing a monthly magazine in Bengali "Bhakti Patra".