In the photo: Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura as a District Magistrate high court judge.
I offer my obeisances to you, O Bhaktivinoda, the form of eternity, knowledge and bliss, the incarnation of Gaura’s potency and the best of the followers of Rupa Goswami.
“So Bhaktivinoda Thakura is an ideal guru. He was not a sannyasi; he was grihastha, householder, living with family, wife, children. Still, he was guru…In spite of his becoming a responsible magistrate, a householder, still, he was acarya”
- Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Appearance day lecture, September 3, 1971, London