His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari speaks on Female Diksha Gurus

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1. 

   SB 4.12.32, Purport

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   It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for

   “Sunīti, however, being a woman, and specifically his mother, could not become Dhruva Mahārāja’s dīkṣā-guru.”

   but we have to take the self evident meaning of this purport, which is that “being a woman” was a reason that stopped Sunīti from becoming dīkṣā-guru.

   “In all of my other books—Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Śrī Īśopaniṣad, etc.—the system is that I give the original verse, its English transliteration, word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents, translations and purports. This makes the book very authentic and scholarly and makes the meaning *SELF-EVIDENT*.”(BG, Preface) [emphasis mine]

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   Therefore, it can be understood that the meaning in the purport is self-evident and is not open to any indirect interpretation.

   “If one tries to explain the Vedic literature in a different way, he is indulging in imagination. Any interpretation of the self-evident Vedic version is simply imaginary.”(CC Madhya 6.179)

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   Only “in very special case” can they become dīkṣā-guru. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.

2. 

   Nice response by His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari 🙂 Please accept my humble obeisances.

3. 

   SB 4.12.32, Purport

   It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for

   “Sunīti, however, being a woman, and specifically his mother, could not become Dhruva Mahārāja’s dīkṣā-guru.”

   but we have to take the self evident meaning of this purport, which is that “being a woman” was a reason that stopped Sunīti from becoming dīkṣā-guru.

   “In all of my other books—Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Śrī Īśopaniṣad, etc.—the system is that I give the original verse, its English transliteration, word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents, translations and purports. This makes the book very authentic and scholarly and makes the meaning self-evident.”(BG, Preface)

   Therefore, it can be understood that the meaning in the purport is self-evident and is not open to any indirect interpretation.

   “If one tries to explain the Vedic literature in a different way, he is indulging in imagination. Any interpretation of the self-evident Vedic version is simply imaginary.”(CC Madhya 6.179)

   Only “in very special case” can they become dīkṣā-gurus. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.

4. 

   SB 4.12.32, Purport
   —————

   It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for

   Sunīti, however, being a woman, and specifically his mother, could not become Dhruva Mahārāja’s dīkṣā-guru.

   but we have to take the self evident meaning of this purport, which is that “being a woman” was a reason that stopped Sunīti from becoming dīkṣā-guru.

   In all of my other books—Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Śrī Īśopaniṣad, etc.—the system is that I give the original verse, its English transliteration, word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents, translations and purports. This makes the book very authentic and scholarly and makes the meaning *SELF-EVIDENT*.

   (BG, Preface) [emphasis mine]

   Therefore, it can be understood that the meaning in the purport is self-evident and is not open to any indirect interpretation.

   If one tries to explain the Vedic literature in a different way, he is indulging in imagination. Any interpretation of the self-evident Vedic version is simply imaginary.

   (CC Madhya 6.179)

   Only “in very special case” can they become dīkṣā-guru. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.