So-called Proof of Bipin Bihari Goswami's position

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> > This story appears to be allegorical. Bipin Bihari Goswami disappeared

> > in 1919, just about the same year that Saraswati Thakur was starting his

> > preaching mission from a single temple in Calcutta with a few followers.

> > From looking through the biographies we have of Saraswati Thakur it

> > doesn't appear that he went to Vrindaban in a car as an acarya before

> > 1926, the year he established his first temple in Vrindaban.

>

> This does seem to be conjecture on your part Bhakta Rupa prabhu. I

> understood that BSST began his preaching mission a couple of years before

> 1919. And don't forget that BSST was staying in Bhaktivinoda Thakur's

> house in Vrindavan way before then, so some kind of incident like this

> could have happened during the presence of Bipin Bihari.

>

> Of course, we can't really comment on the veracity of BR Sridhara's

> statements, but at least he was a direct disciple of BSST and in a better

> position to know about his relationship with Bipin Bihari Goswami than we

> are.

 

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu, PAMHO. AGTSP!

 

Well, it could not have happened much before 1919. It might have happened in

1918 or in the first few months of 1919, but I maintain my doubts, because:

 

1. With only one temple in Calcutta and a few followers, having taken

sannyas just in 1918, would he really wanted to have called himself an

Acarya with a reputation to protect? It is more likely that the incident

actually happened in a later year when the Thakur was more prominent, but

instead there was a different caste goswami who made the statement, and the

name of Bipin Bihari Goswami got substituted by someone who didn't know that

Bipin Bihari had disappeared in 1919.

 

2. 1919 seems a bit early for riding in motorcars also, both in terms of

availability and the means to obtain one, whereas in the 30's they would

have been much more available and affordable.

 

3. How does Bipin Bihari Goswami appear in Radha Kund? His home was in

Baghnapara, West Bengal. Of course he could have been visiting Radha Kund,

but then there would have to be the coincidence of the two of them visiting

at the same time. The brief biography I have does not describe him as doing

any travelling or living for any length of time in any other place.

 

4. When Saraswati Thakur was staying in Vrindaban in his earlier years he

would not have been with Kunja Babu and would not have had any kind of a

acarya profile that he would be worried to protect.

 

So it just seems unlikely.

 

Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das