Their Holinesses Tridandi Swami Bhakti Pradip Tirtha Maharaj and TridandiSwami Bhakti Hridoy Bon Maharaj, (From The Harmonist or Sree SajjanaToshani No.6 VOL. XXX June 1932)
May it please your Holinesses,
We, the members of the Gaudiya Math, beg to offer this humble tribute of our loving homage at the feet of your Holinesses on the eve of your departure to the west on the holy mission of preparing the minds of the peoples of those parts for accepting the words of His Divine Grace in unchallenging mood.
The Divine Personality and the Mission of the Acharyya are not unknown to the Occident. The West is also aware to an extent of the fact that the Message of the Absolute may neither be delivered nor received by the the imperfect apparatus at the disposal of the soul in the conditioned state. These Truths are found in an undeveloped form in the Biblical literatures.
It will be the preliminary part of your activities to deliver the complete spiritual epistemology to all seekers of the Truth, The natural direction of true enlightenment has always been from the East towards the West. The wonderful progress of material civilization of modern times has been mainly due to the labours of the thinkers and workers of the West. It is the purpose of His Divine Grace to enable humanity to consecrate its increased material resources to the service of the Absolute. The misdirection of those resources constitutes the most dreadful menace to the real peace and well-being of the world.
Sree Gaudiya Math in Calcutta, the principal branch of Sree Chaitanya Math, is instituted by His Divine Grace for affording the second city of the Empire the opportunity of studying the Career and Teachings of the Supreme Lord in the lives and activities of its members. It is not a speculative system that your Holinesses are carrying to the peoples of Europe and America but the spiritual life itself.
We have no doubt that this will be realised in the activities of your Holinesses by all sincere souls of those countries. We have no doubt that a branch of Sree Chaitanya Math will be established in the metropolis of the Empire at no distant date to be the head quarters of our propaganda in the West. We have every hope that the highly cultured people of England, to whom you are going just now will give your Holinesses a patient and unprejudiced hearing and will be enabled by close and attentive personal association with you by means of such institution to discover the real nature of the service of Godhead. Material science has been able to overcome the bounds of race and country and to become a universal and unitary concern.
It is the cherished dream of all sincerely devout persons that the complete Revelation will one day surely break down the barriers of sectarian misunderstanding and triumphantly inaugurate the Church Universal.
It is the mission of your Holinesses to persuade the peoples of the West to offer their lending ears to the living Words of His Divine Grace for realising the complete nature of the Vedic Revelation. Your Holinesses are constantly engaged in the service of His Divine Grace and this is sure to impart to the Words and activities of your Holinesses that living spiritual persuasive force which is sure to win the most rebellious hearts. His Divine Grace has been preaching the Absolute Truth to the people of this country on a public scale during the last decade or so. During this comparatively short space of time thousands of persons irrespective of caste, creed, colour, age or sex have been enabled to recognise the undiluted genuineness of His Divine Mission. His Divine Grace has revealed the Career and Teachings of the Supreme Lord Sree Chaitanya to the modern mind in its widest sense. The rapid and phenomenal expansion of the activities of the Gaudiya Math during these years of the world-wide tumult of the greatest war and its aftermath fills us with the hope that the Teachings of Sree Chaitanya will be welcomed with the most profound joy and relief by the peoples of the Occident who are in a better position after their late terrible experiences to appreciate the necessity of a living faith which is able to fully satisfy the actual requirements of this scientific age. The acceptance of the Teachings of the Supreme Lord Sree Chaitanya by the peoples of the West will in its turn afford the people of this country the opportunity of trying to understand the real nature of their priceless heritage in the light of the enlightened verdict of the best minds of the West.
With hearts big with these high hopes for mankind on the eve of their actual realisation by the mercy of His Divine Grace we beg to offer this this humble tribute of our respectful Homages at the feet of your Holinesses as an imperfect expression of our feelings on this auspicious occasion.
Your Holinesses’ humble Servants,
Members of the Gaudiya Math.