Gaur Kishore Das Babaji, was by material considerations, practically illiterate. And Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada called him, a living encyclopedia. He was an unbelievable scholar, incredible scholarship. Try to read his books. English was a third language for him. Sans… Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi these were his first languages. But yet people like me, I don’t know or the, any other language except English, and I can’t understand the words he is saying – so high English. What a scholar he was, he was Simha Guru. Through logic, through rational persuasion, through scriptural evidence, through realization, on every level he was unconquerable in debate. He was given the name Sarasvati Thakur, because he was considered the greatest astrologer and astronomer of the time. But he put it all aside and decided all this stuff, you know it has its relevance but all that really matters is everything is dependent on the will of Krishna. We just surrender to Krishna. Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur accepted Gaur Kishore Das Babaji as his Guru and praised him and worshiped him with all his heart and totally humbled his life before him.
