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The
Gaudiya
Math
is
a
Gaudiya
Vaishnava
matha
monastic
organisation
formed
on
6
September
1920,
about
30
months
after
Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati
took
sannyasa,
the
renounced
order
of
life.
On
7
March
1918,
the
same
day
he
took
sannyasa,
he
established
the
Sri
Chaitanya
Math
in
Mayapura
in
West
Bengal,
later
recognised
as
the
parent
body
of
all
the
Gaudiya
Math
branches.
Its
purpose
was
to
spread
Gaudiya
Vaishnavism,
the
philosophy
of
the
medieval
Vaisnava
saint
Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu,
through
preaching
and
publishing.From
the
beginning
of
Chaitanya's
bhakti
movement
in
Bengal,
devotees,
including
Haridasa
Thakur
and
others,
whether
Muslim
or
Hindu
by
birth,
have
been
participants.
This
openness
and
disregard
for
the
traditional
caste
system
received
a
boost
from
the
\"broad-minded
vision\"
of
Bhaktivinoda
Thakura,
a
nineteenth-century
magistrate
and
prolific
writer
on
bhakti
topics,
and
was
institutionalised
by
his
son
and
successor
Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati
Thakura
in
the
twentieth-century
Gaudiya
Math.The
Gaudiya
Math
had
established
64
branches.
Most
were
in
India,
but
preaching
centres
were
maintained
for
a
time
in
Burma,
England
and
Germany.
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