Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Deliberating on how to best conduct the mission in the future, he felt that the example of the South Indian orders of "sannyasa" (monasticism), the most prestigious spiritual order in Hinduism, would be needed in the Chaitanya tradition as well to increase its respectability and to openly institutionalise asceticism as compatible with "bhakti". On 27 March 1918, before leaving for Calcutta, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati resolved to become the first "sannyasi" of Gaudiya Vaishnavism post Chaitanya Mahaprabhu period, starting a new Gaudiya Vaishnava monastic order. Since there was no other Gaudiya Vaishnava "sannyasi" to initiate him into the renounced order, he controversially sat down before a picture of Gaurakishora Dasa Babaji and conferred the sannyasa upon himself. From that day on, he adopted both the dress and the life of a Vaishnava renunciant, with the name Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami.