Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (भक्तिसिद्धांत सरस्वती)

Bhaktmal: Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Real name - Bimala Prasad Datta
Other Names - Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada
Disciple - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Guru - Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji
Aradhya - Bhagwan Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Born - 6 February 1874
Place of Birth - Puri, Odisha, India
Died - 1 January 1937 (age 62 years), Kolkata
Marital Status - Unmarried
Language - Odia, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, English
Father- Kedarnath Datta (Bhaktivinoda Thakur)
Mother - Bhagavati Devi
Organizations founded: Gaudiya Math, Gaudiya Mission
Famous - Gaudiya Vaisnava Hindu guruSrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupad, founder of Gaudiya Mission and the most illustrious follower of his mentor-father Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was a highly influential preacher of Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout India in the late 19th and early 20th Century. He was the spiritual master of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati met with scholars, educators, and other leaders and wrote more than 108 essays and books, striving to present Bhakti as a theistic science. He established 64 temples, known as Gaudiya Maths, inside and outside of India.

He asked his disciple A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to go to the West to teach Krishna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada went to New York in 1965 and carried on his spiritual master's mission on a grand scale.

His last days he spent in Mayapur, Sri Siddhanta Sarasvati constructed a grass hut, where he lived very simply and chanted day and night.