Sri Sarasvata Gaudiya Vaishnava Association (SGVA)

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The 7th annual meeting and reunion of the Sri Sarasvata Gaudiya Vaishnava Association (an association of disciplic descendants of His Divine Grace Prabhupada Srila Bhakti-siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur) was held in the Auditorium of the Samadhi Mandir of His Divine Grace Srila A.C.

 

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Sri Mayapur on the 21st March, 2002.

 

The SGVA was created to fulfill the desires of His Divine Grace Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, so that all his disciples and followers would cooperatively work together to spread the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to the entire world. His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada established the Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity trust (BSCT) with one of its objectives being to promote unity in the Saraswat (disciplic family). The BSCT took the initiative for convening a meeting of all disciplic descendants of His Divine Grace Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur. They decided to form a formal association under the name of Sarasvata Gaudiya Vaishnava Association (SGVA), with the purpose of fulfilling the well known desire of Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur - that his followers cooperatively preach the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, while developing Vaishnava communities in the Holy Dham.

 

Most of the direct disciples of Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur appreciate this working together approach, which began through the initiatives of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Their Divine Graces Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Maharaja and Srila Madhava Maharaja (who were members of the BSCT) support the attempt to bring together this great family, which was started by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada more than 30 years ago, and has been formally together now for seven years.

 

The meeting was blessed by two disciples of Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, namely Their Divine Graces: Srila Nayananda das Babaji and Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaja who both spoke on the need for humility and dedication to the desires of our previous acaryas in order to work together cooperatively. They gave their blessings to the spiritual nephews and all the devotees present. His Holiness Jayapataka Swami convened the meeting and gave the annual report for the previous year. His Divine Grace Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Maharaj gave the Vote of Thanks address concluding the meeting.

 

The heads and representatives of various member institutions attended. It is the association of the disciplic descendents of HDG Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura. This association will be registered as a society under the West Bengal Society Registration Act 1961. Work on this registration is going on, hopefully it will be registered very soon. The members of this association are the different institutions and maths in the line of Sri Brahma Madhava Gaudiya Sarasvata Sampradaya. All the members of SGVA meet annually (once in a year).

 

The SGVA has also a website (http://www.mayapur.info/SGVA) that was displayed by H.H Jayapataka Swami from his laptop to all the members of the meeting.

 

This website will be updated regularly and all the member-institutions can send the information to update.

 

The meeting was started at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 1:30 p.m. After the meeting there was a feast lunch prasadam to all the members at the Puspa Samadhi of HDG Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in ISKCON. Some gifts like umbrellas, calendars and prasadam packs were distributed by to all the members. The whole meeting was sponsored by Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity trust which was founded by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. H.H Jayapataka Swami is the chairman of this trust.

 

- For ISKCON were Their Holinesses Jayapataka Swami Maharaja (Convener of the SGVA), Subhag Swami and Prahladananda Swami.

 

- For Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Math, His Holiness Srila Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Maharaja.

 

- For Caitanya Mission, HH Bhakti Vichar Vishnu maharaja.

 

- For Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math, His Holiness B.B. Bodhayan Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Saraswata Gaudiya Asram, Bhakti Prasad Bon Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Krsna Caitanya Math, HH Srila Rupananda Bon Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Nityananda Gaudiya Math HH Bhaktivedanta Govinda Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Sevasram - HH Bhakti Prapanna Parivrajaka Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Saraswata Gaudiya Sraman Asram, HH Bhakti Prabhudha Dandi Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Rupanuga Gaudiya Math, HG Sacinandan Bramacari. Representing His Divine Grace Bhakti Vijaya Sagar Maharaja (97 years old) disciple of HDG Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prahupada

 

- For Sri Gaurnityananda Mandir, HH B.P. Sadhu Maharaja.

 

- For Sri Gauranga Gaudiya Math, HG Krsnasundar Bramacari.

 

- For Sri Bhakti Saudha bajan kutir, HG Upasna Bramacari

 

- For Sri Paramahamsa Gaudiya Math, HG Rasikananda Vanacari.

 

- For Sri Surabhi Kunja, Sri Bhagirath das Adhikari.

 

- For Sri Caitanaya Gaudiya Saraswata Asrama, HH Bhakti Pradip Janardan Maharja.

 

- For Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Gaudiya Math,

 

- For Sri Krsnananda Gaudiya Math, HH B. Padmanav Maharaja

 

We will be regularly posting the activities and the details of the SGVA in the (temporal) website http://www.mayapur.info/SGVA.

 

Your servant

Tusti Mohan Krsna das