Biography of a great saint.

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Biography of a great saint.

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It was a very holy day, one day after janmastami, On 1st September, 1896, a divine baby was born to Sriman Gour Mohon De and Rajini De, in Bengal presidensi, calcutta of the British India. They were devotees of Lord Vishnu thereby they were had-nut vaishnava(devotees of Lord Vishnu) from all perspective.

  His education right up to graduation with major in English, Philosophy and Economics was very awiftband unbroken with outstanding result. But his mind was filled with theological wisdom which was ready to errupt to cover the world with its powerful radiation. He rushed to Bhaktisiddhanta Swami, as if everything were pre-determined . After initiation into Vaishnava Philosophy under the said guru, he sprang up for works day and night spreading the Vaishnava Philosophy, meditation and the way to salvation.
  He became the true devotee of Lord Krishna, the another incarnation of Lord Vishnu Himself. He started his religious career in Vrindavana, the holy place where even many of a lady called gopis, becomes nuns at the devotion of Lord Krishna at high sirenety. He acted according to his predecessor Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, whose disciple he was, the speech of the Bhagavad-Gita. Initiation, Dikhshya and Sanyasa-state of a monk in 1333 and 1964 respectively.
   His works in religious literacy feet was very stunning in view of his translated versions into English over sixty on Hindu religious scriptures. Some examples of his own works involve - The Nector of devotion, Life comes from life, Message of Godhead and over thirty nine others.
     In 1916, under the ausie of Bhaktivedanta- the soul agent - he was taken to the west through a religious mission called "Global Missionary Vaishnamism". He worked day and night in preaching the Philosophy which brought a number of foreign devotees to be thronged around him. There he along with other devotees founded a society of all Vaishnavas and later it was named as ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness). He set first temple in New York and second in San Francisco in the same year in 1967. As the number of the devotees increased the number of temples covered a big area in west and rest of the world. Under his leadership and till his death 108 temples and thousands of centres of ISKCON were set up.He was bestowed with praises for his literary charity l, their authority and depth by the then leading professors at collages and universities like Harvard, Oxford, Corrmell, Colombia, Syracuse, Oberlin and Edinburgh etc. which spread his fame nook and corner.
   When he returned to India, his missionaries in foreign countries and India were in full blossom with thousands of devotees at work. He breathed his last on Nov, 1977 at the age of 81, nonetheless his career of the period of office was between 1966 to 1977 only.
   At present his works are the subject matter for the scientists of the world. It's mentaining that 'Darwin's theory of evolution' is in a dwindling stage before his arguments in his work 'Life comes from life' who knows a day may be coming when science and religions would be synonyms, without which none of them shall have utility, value and usefulness.