Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti

The Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti is an spiritual (religious) organization of Gaudiya Vaishnavas.

It was formally founded on Aksaya Trtiya in the month of Vaisakha (April) 1940 with the rental of 32/2 Bospada Lane, in Bagbazar, Calcutta,India

Sri Vedantika Pandita Mahopadesaka Sri Kritiratna Prabhu(later known as Sri Prajnana Kesava Maharaja) along with many disciples of Srila Prabhupada in Navadvipa established the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti - first in Navadvipa and then in Calcutta

Amongst the Godbrothers who were present were Sri Abhayacarana Bhaktivedanta Prabhu (later known as Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada) , Sri Nrsimhananda Brahmacari and Sri Sajjansevaka Brahmacari (Srila Prabhupada's diksa disciple, (later known as Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Maharaja), the former Acarya and President of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti).

Present Day
The Vice President of Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti is Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. He circumnavigates the Earth yearly, visiting devotees in such places as Hawaii , California, Houston, Australia, Europe India, Russia and Hong Kong.

For the benefit of the westerners to learn learn about the tradition of Gaudiya he establish a new Vaisnava Society the mission of that society is:
To teach, promote and broadcast the precepts of Pure Bhakti, divine spiritual love and devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna, as found in the ancient Vedic literatures and which, in the present day, are practiced and propagated by the current most prominent world teacher of Bhakti Yoga, His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja.

To preserve and protect the teachings of the disciplic succession of the Rupanuga Guru Varga, the Divine Spiritual Masters which have been passed down in the 500 year old lineage from the time of the advent of the Great Master and incarnation of Lord Sri Krsna known as Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

To benedict the world at large by teaching the all-auspicious and all beneficial practice of Samkirtan, congregational chanting of the Holy Names of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, especially the powerful sixteen word mantra known as the Maha-Mantra, the great chanting for deliverance in this iron age of Kali-yuga.

To accomplish the above three goals through the distribution of literatures, CD’s, DVD’s, and other forms of data storage.

Beliefs

Gaudiya Vaishnavism (also known as Chaitanya Vaishnavism) is a Vaishnava religious movement founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) in India in the 16th Century. "Gaudiya" refers to ' (present day Bengal/Bangladesh) with Vaishnavism meaning the worship of Vishnu. Its philosophical basis is primarily that of the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavata Purana, as well as other Puranic scriptures and Upanishads such as the Isha Upanishad, Gopala Tapani Upanishad.

The focus of Gaudiya Vaishnavism is the devotional worship (bhakti) of Radha and Krishna, and their many divine incarnations as the supreme forms of God, svayam bhagavan. Most popularly this worship takes the form of singing Radha and Krishna's holy names, such as 'Hare', 'Krishna' and 'Rama', (most commonly in the form of the Hare Krishna mantra) which is known as kirtan. The movement is sometimes referred to as the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya referring to its traditional origins in the disciplic succession of spiritual masters (gurus) believed to originate from Brahma. It classifies itself as a monotheistic tradition.

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