Question: In your Vyasa puja address you had said that any brahmana takes sannyas, he gets the title swami, any grihasta gets a title of goswami. But Srila Prabhupada had the title Swami and the six goswamis are Goswamis. But Srila Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur is Goswami. Could you please elaborate on this?

Jayapataka Swami: This may not be the system of parampara previously. But this is the system that Srila Prabhupada established in ISKCON. He wanted the brahmacaris who took sannyasa to be called Swamis and the grihastas who took sannyasa to be called Goswamis. So that was his advice for Iskcon. Otherwise there are 108 sannyasi names and we could have so many different sannyasis. But Srila Prabhupada wanted to keep it simple – Swami and Goswami. And that wasn’t the system before. But that was the system he prescribed for ISKCON. He also said, that if the wife is cooperative, then there is no need to take sannyasa.
10-APRIL-2020 SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, INDIA