Why they Won’t listen

The GBC of North America has passed a resolution to introduce a Female Diksa Guru program into ISKCON.

For some of us long-time initiates this situation has been an ongoing fear of ours for many years.

We are not haters of women but we are not liking this policy for an entirely different reason.

Guru, sastra and sadhu are our authorities. This is the parampara system. No one is authorized to change this system, not even the acharya.

We learn from authority that women are not ever to be given brahmanah initiation. Our acharya HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami NEVER bestowed the sacred thread to any woman.

So those of us protesting this new policy are on firm ground. We ask “How can a woman who is not a brahmanah initiate a man or a woman as a brahmanah?”

The obvious answer is “It isn’t possible.”

We are also on firm ground opposing this resolution because parampara is in uniform agreement that the mental condition of women is tends to passion and ignorance.

We can understand through Vedic philosophy that the souls in the body of women will transmigrate in the future and take men’s bodies at which time they will be given greater opportunity of spiritual advancement and so will be in a position to possibly initiate others–though even then the ability to initiate others is not a guarantee.

The act of receiving initiation into the parampara is a heavy responsibility for the disciple.

Initiating others into the parampara is an even greater responsibility on behalf of the initiator therefore we should wonder if a particular person is properly prepared to perform this task–or even possess any concept of the responsibility it entails.

According to the pramana we get from Vedic authority women advance in natural service to husband not from imitating the male role.

But the GBC has rejected all these arguments.

It is legitimate for us to question “Why will not the GBC listen?”

It is incumbent upon those of us who wish ISKCON to remain pure and effective to ask many questions of the GBC.

1) Srila Prabhupada proposed a Bhaktivedanta Course. It was never instituted. How can the GBC cite a course that was never instituted nor anyone has ever passed as evidence? *1

2) What is the justification for instituting Female Diksa Guru when women do not receive Brahmanah initiation in the first place? ( Logically neither they can give nor will their disciples be able to give brahmanah initiation )
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3) What is the logic of making secondary rules for female gurus ( if Temple Presidents approve or not, that they must have family protection, etc. ) if they have obtained such knowledge and purity that they can assume the task of acting as guru and are equal in stature to their male counterparts? *3

5) What monies received or threats offered have been a factor in your vote?

6) Are you deliberately desirous of introducing a form of Cultural Marxism into ISKCON? *4

7) Are you planning to introduce homosexual marriage into ISKCON?

8) Why have you deviated from the mission statement for the GBC devised by Srila Prabhupada? *5

It is in deriving answers to these questions we will learn why the GBC is not listening.

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*1 The prime evidence cited in the GBC resolution allowing FDG is a letter by AC Bhaktivedanta proposing the creation of a Bhaktivedanta Course. Later on a morning walk, AC Bhaktivedanta suggested the course would be reading and assimilation of 8-10 books.
The course is still yet to be created.

*2 This is puzzling. HDG AC Bhaktivedanta never awarded brahmanah initiation to women–specifically the brahmanah thread.

*3 This is a strange part of the resolution. On one hand the GBC is acknowledging Female Diksa Guru ( there is no higher status in the universe than that of acharya ) while simultaneously demanding the Female Guru have male protection as ” the weaker sex.”

*4 The reader should Google Cultural Marxism, its history and philosophy. It is legitimate to ask if that philosophy being taught in American Universities is having an influence in ISKCON.

*5 The original purpose of the GBC designed by AC Bhaktivedanta was to insure devotees maintained the personal sadhana and temple worship standards throughout ISKCON. It is a legitimate question–” when did the GBC become ‘ social reformers ‘ ?”