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Prabhupad Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur was pre-eminently a philosopher. His ideas were rational and always logical, that is why he never failed to attract the intelligentsia. He asked the people not to have blind faith. Faith, if not solidly based on a philosophical concept, is likely to be shaken. He is a democrat of the democrats. He says: God is worshipped not only by Brahmins. Everyone has the right to call upon Him and worship Him. Get rid of your sins and impurities and you become a Brahmin and not otherwise by the accident of your birth. To preach the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya he started so many magazines in different languages. THE GAUDIYA is one of such magazines serving spiritually hungry devotees with the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitnaya. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, Life remains unfulfilled without the vision of Truth. As we see the world through our mortal eyes so also we can see the Ultimate Reality Who is known as God through the eye of intutive wisdom when the soul is recognized by an exalted devotee of God Who out of His infinite causeless mercy, may open our inner spiritual eyes, long sealed in the gloom of nescience, by applying the collyrium of Transcendental Knowledge. Lord Sri Chaitanya says, Ye those who are born in India attaining highest good in life do good unto others. Unalloyed
service to Krishna and kindness to all creatures shoud be the motto of life then life becomes purposeful and fruitful.
The Gaudiya Math aims at the following: To show the light of Transcendence by eliminating all dirts of empiricism and mundane bearings. That Sri Radha Govinda, the Absolute Divine Couple, is the only Object of worship that the way of worship shown by the Transcendntal milkmaids of Vraja. Back to God and Back to Home is the Message of Gaudiya Math. To arrest the pervertdly current tide and to redirect it towards the Eternal Source is the seemingly unpleasant duty of the Gaudiya Math. This year Sri Chaitanya Jayanti, the 526th Advent Anniversary falls on Thursday, the 8th March 2012, which is grandly celebrated at the Birth-site of Lord Sri Chaitanya, at Sridham Mayapur, West Bengal and all other its branches including our Sri Gaudiya Math, Chennai also. Swami Sri Lalit Krishna Brahmachari Sri Gaudiya Math, Chennai.