He was so kind to accept the request of so many devotees to become the president of the Visva Vaisnava Raja Sabha, the World Vaisnava Association, in 1994. He personally presided over many of the meetings and encouraged the publications. In general he encouraged all of us to continue to dedicate ourselves to helping the unity of the Vaisnavas. Srila BP Puri Maharaja was generosity personified.
Prior to his departure from this world, Srila Puri Gosvami Maharaja appointed his disciple, Srila Bhakti Bibudha Bodhayana Maharaja as his successor and President-acarya of Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Matha. He always urged all of his disciples to take spiritual responsibility and preach wherever they can. Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Maharaja entered the nitya-lila one day before rasa-purnima in 1999. Since that day, the whole world has been suffering the pangs of separation from another one of these great, stalwart souls who dedicated his life entirely to the lotus feet of Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.