Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
In the Bhagavad Gita (2.15), His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada writes:
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. In the varnasrama institution, the fourth stage of life, namely the renounced order (sannyasa), is a painstaking situation. But one who is serious about making his life perfect surely adopts the sannyasa order of life in spite of all difficulties. The difficulties usually arise from having to sever family relationships, to give up the connection of wife and children. But if anyone is able to tolerate such difficulties, surely his path to spiritual realization is complete.
Lord Caitanya took sannyasa at the age of twenty-four, and His dependents, young wife as well as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyasa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage.
Please find the list of the candidates and their respective waiting list periods.
Sannyasa this year
Pushpashila Shyam Das
Navadvipa Dvija Gauranga Das
Priti Vardhan Das
Vrindavanchandra Das
One year waiting
Bhaktipad Das
Eklavya Das
Raghav Pandita Das
Asim Krishna Das
Sundarlal Das
Venu Dhari Das
Two year waiting
Vanamali Das
Kamalalochan Das
Radhashyamsunder Das
Three year waiting
Atmaram Das
Vishvavasu Das
Adhoksaja Das
Gopendra Das
Sutapa Das
Sankarshan Nitai Das
Trailokyanatha Das
Savyasachi Das (JPS)
Valmiki Das
Four year waiting
Govindananda Das
Six year waiting
Savyasachi Das (BCS)
Hope this meets you all well.
Your servant,
Brajsunder Das
Secretary/ Sannyasa Ministry