Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami
ISKCON leader, founder of Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti
Died when: 70 years 240 days (847 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Bhakti Prajnan Keshava (IAST: Bhakti Prajñana Kesava; 9 February 1898 – 6 October 1968), addressed by the honorific Maharaja (Maharaja), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and the founder-acharya of the religious organisation "Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti", formed in Calcutta in 1940, and its headquarters, monastery Sri Devananda Gaudiya Math in Nabadwip.
Bhakti Prajnan Keshava Maharaja and A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada were godbrothers (disciples of the same spiritual master).Abhay Charanaravinda Prabhu became A.
C.Bhaktivedanta Swami (taking the title "Bhaktivedanta" and name Swami) when Kesava Gosvami initiated him into the renounced order of life (sannyasa) on 17 September 1959 at Keshava Maharaja's temple in Mathura.