Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada - ISKCON / Vaisnava Calendar Reminder Services: Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja, my spiritual master, his advent day today. In 1922, I was at that time very much engaged in Congress activity. I was very much devout follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and at that time, I was manager also in a very big chemical concern in Calcutta. Perhaps you may know, Dr. Bose%u2019s laboratory. One of my friends%u2014he%u2019s still living, Sri Narendranath Mullik%u2014he informed me that %u201COne saintly person has come. Let us go and see.%u201D At that time I was young man, and I did not care for very much about so-called saintly persons. Because in our house, my father used to receive so many sannyasis, but some of them were not very to the standard, and due to my association with college friends, younger days, I lost my faith practically, although I was born in a Vaishnava family. My father was a pure Vaishnava. From my childhood, he gave me Radha-Krishna Deity for worshiping. A ratha%u2026 I was playing with my boyfriends, Ratha-yatra, Dola, like that. My father encouraged. So I was trained up in this line, but in my youthful age, when I was college student, gradually, by their bad association or something, gradually, I lost my activities. But when this friend, Mr. Mullik, took me to Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja, he immediately asked me that, %u201CYou are educated young boys. Why don%u2019t you take up Lord Caitanya%u2019s message and preach in the Western world?%u201D
