His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari speaks on Female Diksha Gurus

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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

  "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.

• 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

  "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.

• 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.