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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SB 4.12.32, Purport
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It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for
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.
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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.
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Only "in very special case" can they become dīkṣā-guru. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.
Nice response by His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari :) Please accept my humble obeisances.
SB 4.12.32, Purport
It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for
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.
Therefore, it can be understood that the meaning in the purport is self-evident and is not open to any indirect interpretation.
Only "in very special case" can they become dīkṣā-gurus. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.
SB 4.12.32, Purport
—————
It seems that many people have come up with many indirect interpretations for
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.
(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.
(CC Madhya 6.179)
Only "in very special case" can they become dīkṣā-guru. Jāhnavā devī became. But she was Jāhnavā devī. Good luck.