Traditional Bijoy Krishna Goswami (IAST: Vijaya-kṛṣṇa Gosvāmī; 2 August 1841 – 4 June 1899),[1] also known by the honorific Gosaiji, was a Hindu social reformer and religious figure in India during the British period.

[2] Brahmo Samaj was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore as a reformation of the prevailing tradition of the times (specifically Kulin practices).

From the Brahmo Samaj springs Brahmoism, one of the legally recognised religions in India and Bangladesh, reflecting its foundation on reformed spiritual Hinduism with elements of Judeo-Islamic faith and practice.

[7] Desirous of a child, Ananda Kishore Goswami Prabhu travelled from Shantipur to Jagannath Temple, Puri, performing dandavat prostration all along the way.

Ananda Kishore Goswami passed away on 1844 AD, entering into maha bhava samadhi while reciting the Srimad Bhagavatam; Gosaiji was then only three years old.

He later joined the Calcutta Sanskrit College, during this time he married Ramchandra Bhaduri's eldest daughter Yogmaya Devi.

; Gosaiji consequently, left the ancestral tradition of spiritual mentorship, and in the year 1860 AD joined the Calcutta Medical College to pursue a career in medicine.

The mediation of Sri Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar brought the situation under control, but a disillusioned Gosaiji left his studies at the medical college and instead became a homoeopathy medicine practitioner.

During his wanderings as a homoeopathy doctor, Gosaiji's religion fervour grew and under the influence of Acharya Devendra Nath Tagore, he renounced his Hindu heritage and joined the Brahmo Samaj.

Aiming to educate the women of India, he started contributing to Bengali magazines like Bamabodhini (edited by Umesh Chandra Dutta), Tattwabodhini, Dharmatattwa etc.

In this period Gosaiji started preaching the Brahmo way of worship throughout India, he visited interior parts of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Punjab.

As a preacher, he walked length and breadth of India, sometimes sustaining himself by only drinking water and eating the mud from river banks.

There was a second schism in the Brahmo Samaj in May 1878, when Keshub Chandra Sen married his underage daughter to the prince of Cooch Bihar who was also a minor.

Once while sermonizing in a province of Punjab, he was disturbed by lust; disgusted with himself, he decided to commit suicide by drowning himself in the waters of the Ravi.

On seeing Gosaiji, Sri Ramakrishna remarked, "When the soul soars high in the sky, why to keep the body in a cage?"

- The indication was that it was time for Gosaiji to resign from the duty-bound job of a priest of Brahmo Samaj and lead a free life of an ascetic.

Gosaiji said that the first meeting with the mahatma left him shocked as Tailanga Swami was worshipping Lord Shiva using his urine as Ganga water.

Finally, in the year 1883 AD, Gosaiji arrived at Akash Ganga hill at Gaya, where he ultimately obtained his Guru - Sripad Brahmananda Paramahamsadev.

Gosaiji fell unconscious into a state of samadhi that lasted eleven days and Raghuvar Das Baba looked after him during this period.

Brahmo Bijoy Krishna Goswami thus made a complete reversal to Hinduism as the monk Achyutananda Saraswati.

Brahmachari Kuladananda described Gendaria Ashram in his diary as a clearing made on the edges of a wild animal infested wilderness.

Gosaiji inscribed the following sermon on the wall of the hut where he resided: ওঁ শ্রীকৃষ্ণ চৈতন্যায় নমঃ। (Salutations to Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) এইছা দিন নাহি রহেগা। (Such a day will not remain) আত্মপ্রশংসা করিও না। (Do not speak highly of yourself) পরনিন্দা করিও না। (Do not slander others) অহিংসা পরম ধর্ম। (Non-violence is a supreme virtue) সর্ব জীবে দয়া কর। (Be kind to all living beings) শাস্ত্র ও মহাজনদিগকে বিশ্বাস কর। (Trust the holy scriptures and saints) শাস্ত্র ও মহাজনের আচারের সঙ্গে যাহা মিলিবে না তাহা বিষবৎ ত্যাগ কর। (Reject as poison anything that does not comply with the behaviour of the holy scriptures and saints) নাহংকারাৎ পরাে রিপুঃ। (Pride is the greatest foe) From this stage of his life, Gosaiji followed Akash Vritti (i.e. not making effort to earn, beg or borrow and depend on God's mercy).

Describing the divine events that occurred in the ashram, Brahmachari Kuladananda writes - "honey used to drop from the leaves of the mango tree under which Gosaiji used to sit.

In this regard, answering the query of a disciple, Gosaiji said, "When pranayam continues through the central nerve of the spinal cord, it generates a pleasant sound.

Bijoy Krishna Goswami breathed his last on 22 Joishtho 1306 BS (4 June 1899 in the Gregorian calendar) in Puri.