Gaudiya Mission
The Gaudiya Mission is a Gaudiya Vaishnava monastic and missionary organization. The organisation has been registered since March 1940 in Kolkata under the supervision of the then acharya, Ananta Vasudev, later known as Bhakti Prasad Puri Maharaj.
History
The Gaudiya Mission is the successor organization to the Gaudiya Math, which existed from 1920 to 1937. After Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's death, Ananta Vasudev was elected as his successor. However, Kuñjabihari Vidyabusana, the secretary and the president of the Gaudiya Math, did not agree with the decision and formed his own group. Thus, Ananta Vasudev gave up his post and established a new organization, the Gaudiya Mission. The 64 Gaudiya Math centers were divided into two groups in 1948 and the Gaudiya Mission kept the central temple, Sri Gaudiya Math, with museum at Bagbazar in Kolkata, the headquarters of the mission to the present day.Later Ananta Vasudev started to criticize some of the teachings of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, married, settled in Vrindavan, and translated into Bengali 62 papers of the six Goswamis of Vrindavana, classical Gaudiya Vaishnava works. After him, the mission was headed by Bhakti Keval Audulaumi, Bhakti Srirup Bhagavat, and Bhakti Suhrid Paribrajak. The present acharya is Bhakti Sundar Sanyasi Maharaj.