His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari speaks on Female Diksha Gurus

My Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances_/\ò_.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Here is a video where His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami recalls how much Srila Prabhupada glorified Yamuna devi, but stated “If she weren’t a woman I would make her a GBC.” My wife recalls when some of our ladies were pushing to get ladies on the GBC how they were threatening the GBC that they would go to the media if the GBC did not allow women GBCs. And now they want to take it step further with lady gurus even though Srila Prabhupada has written very clearly in his purport to SB 4.12.32:

“Suniti, however, being a woman, and specifically his mother, could not become Dhruva Maharaja’s diksa-guru.”

Here’s the video of TKG:

Hoping this meets you in good health,
Always your humble servant, ?

Sankarshan Das

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Vinayak Maheshwari says:

September 26, 2020 at 8:07 pm

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.
Vinayak Maheshwari says:

January 22, 2020 at 7:49 pm

Nice response by His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari :) Please accept my humble obeisances.
Vinayak Maheshwari says:

January 22, 2020 at 7:42 pm

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.
Vinayak Maheshwari says:

January 22, 2020 at 7:18 pm

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.