Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī:

A Personalist View of Nature

Abstract

Sardella revisits the worldview of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, a key modernizer in the Gauḍīya Vaishnava tradition, to analyze his approach to nature, race, caste, and spiritual geography. The article traces how his personalist theology—rooted in devotion to a sentient Supreme Being—translates into a distinct ecological awareness. Sardella argues that by organizing social structures and ecological thinking around transcendental relationships rather than impersonal natural forces, Bhaktisiddhānta established an alternative form of religious environmentalism.