Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Seva Ashram, San Jose

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The Vaishnava Seva Society invites you to visit the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Seva Ashram in Santa Cruz (Soquel) and San Jose, California. We are a community of bhakti-yoga practitioners founded by Srila B.S. Govinda Maharaj and directed by Srila B.P. Janardan Maharaj. Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was an incarnation of the Supreme Lord Krishna who demonstrated the proper behavior and mood of a devotee (a bhakti-yogi). He spectacularly propagated the chanting of the Holy Name throughout medieval India and revealed the spiritual path of ecstatic love of Godhead. He inspired a venerable lineage of pure devotional yogis called the Rupanuga Sampradaya. They have preserved and elegantly systematized his teachings for the amelioration of all souls worldwide. The Rupanuga Sampradaya is represented by the modern day saint Om Visnupad Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, his successor Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj, and others of his stalwart sannyasi disciples including our local leader, His Grace Srila Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj.