Sri Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktisiddhanta-sarasvatiti namine
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

When my Guru Maharaja was present even big, big scholars were afraid to talk with His beginning students. My Guru Maharaja was called “Living Encyclopedia“, he could talk with anyone on any subject. He was so learned – so we should be like that as far as possible. No compromise – Rama Krishna, Avataras, yogis, everyone was enemy to Guru Maharaja – he never compromised. Some God-brothers complained that this preaching was chopping technique and it would not be successful. But we have seen that those who criticised, they fell down. For my part I have taken up the policy of my Guru Maharaja – no compromise. All these so called scholars, scientists, philosophers who do not accept Krsna are nothing more than rascals, fools lowest of mankind etc..
(730727 – Letter to Karandhara written from Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK)

So it is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He accepted everyone to this movement. So my Guru Mahārāja’s contribution is that he defeated these caste gosvāmī. He defeated this brahmanism. He created that the same way as Caitanya Mahāprabhu did, that, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu said:

kibā śūdra kibā vipra nyāsi kene naya

yei kṛṣṇa tattva vetta sei guru haya

(CC Madhya 8.128)

“There is no consideration whether a man is a sannyāsī, a brahmin or a śūdra or a this or a gṛhastha, householder, or . . . no. Anyone who knows the science of Kṛṣṇa, he is all right. He is gosvāmī. He is brahmin.” That is the contribution, say, within hundred years. That is the contribution there. And for this reason he had to face so many vehement protests from this brahmin-class gosvāmīns.
He . . . they conspired to kill him. Guru Mahārāja told me personally. Others . . . because, by his grace, when I used to meet alone, he used to talk so many things. He was so kind that he used to talk so many things with me. So he personally told me that, “These people, they wanted to kill me. They collected 25,000 rupee and went to bribe the police officer in charge of that area that, ‘You take this 25,000 rupees. We shall do something against Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. You don’t take any step.’ ” He could understand that they want to kill him. Just like in your country also, the polit . . . Kennedy, was killed. You know. He wanted to kill.
So the police officer frankly said: “Of course, we accept bribe, and we indulge in such things, but not for a sādhu, not for a saintly person. I cannot dare this.” And the police officer refused and came to my Guru Mahārāja that “You take care. This is the position.” You see? So vehemently protested.
(690207 – Lecture Festival Appearance Day, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati – Los Angeles)