At its November 2, 2022 meeting, the Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON resolved to again put a moratorium on women devotees accepting disciples in ISKCON. (The resolution can be found at the end of this article.)
The topic has been debated and discussed in various forums in ISKCON for twenty years and has evoked strong feelings (as well as lengthy papers and lists of oppositional sastric [scriptural] references) on all sides of the issue. In 2014, for example, the GBC held a special 3-day retreat at ISKCON’s temple in the holy city of Tirupati, India to exclusively discuss the matter.
See original article at link: https://iskconnews.org/gbc-pauses-vaishnavi-diksa-gurus-again/
A reader answers Akincana Gocara’s call for comment on the removed paragraph with a short…
The co-author of “Forbidden Archeology” and a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since the 1970s spent…
A Sanskrit teacher’s eight-minute video on a 195-letter compound from a sixteenth-century poem has passed…
Representatives of ISKCON were among the religious bodies heard by the parliamentary panel examining the…
Four months after Prāṇadā devī dāsī published a book arguing that women have long served…
A Delhi news site has published the first detailed account of what the former auditor…