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|honors = Siddhanta Sarsvati ("the pinnacle of wisdom");<br/>propagator of [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism]];<br/>''acharya-keshari'' (lion-guru)
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|disciple = [[Swami B.R. Sridhar|Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaj]], [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada|Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], and others
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After the deaths of his father and his guru, in 1918 Bimala Prasad accepted the Hindu formal order of asceticism (''[[sannyasa]]''), becoming known as Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami. In the same year Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati inaugurated in Calcutta the first center of his institution, later known as the [[Gaudiya Math]]. It soon developed into a dynamic missionary and educational institution with sixty-four branches across India and three centres abroad (in [[Burma]], Germany, and England). The Math propagated the teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism by means of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals, books of the Vaishnava canon, and public programs as well as through such innovations as "theistic exhibitions" with dioramas. Known for his intense and outspoken oratory and writing style as the "''acharya-keshari''" ("lion guru"). Bhaktisiddhanta opposed the [[monism|monistic]] interpretation of [[Hinduism]], or ''[[Advaita Vedanta|advaita]]'', that had emerged as the prevalent strand of Hindu thought in India, seeking to establish traditional personalist [[bhakti|''krishna-bhakti'']] as its fulfilment and higher synthesis. At the same time, through lecturing and writing, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati targeted both the ritualistic [[caste system in India|caste]]ism of [[Smarta Tradition|smarta brahmanas]] and sensualised practices of numerous Gaudiya Vaishavism spin-offs , branding them as ''apasampradayas'' – deviations from the original Gaudiya Vaishnavism taught in the 16th century by [[Caitanya Mahaprabhu]] and his close successors.
The mission initiated by Bhaktivinoda and developed by Bhaktisiddhanta emerged as "the most powerful reformist movement" of Vaishnavism in Bengal of the 19th and early 20th century. However, after the demise of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in 1937, the Gaudiya Math became tangled by internal dissent, and the united mission of Sri Gaudiya Math in India was effectively fragmented.
==Early period (1874–1900): Student==
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