“Vaisnava dasa: If one violates social customs, one is guilty of vyavaharika-dona, secular impropriety, and members of society who take pride in their social respectability do not condone such activities. That is why one should not perform them, even if he is spiritually qualified “ -Bhaktivedanta Thakura Jaiva Dharma, Chp. 6 Nitya Dharma Race & Cast p.111 Translation: Sri Srimad Bhaktivedänta Narayana Maharaja (Third Hindi edition)
2. If there is a compelling need for FDG’s, then those who are advocating it have the burden to provide reasonable evidence to support that claim.
3. If there is no compelling need to introduce FDG’s, then doing so formally violates social customs and, according to Bhaktivenode Thakura, comes under the category of “vyavaharika-dona,” inappropriate for those who take pride in their social responsibility to introduce.
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There are several very famous Female Gurus in India.
There are also those who take pride in their social respectability, based on caste brahmanism, AKA asuric Varnasrama.
Lord Caitanya had the power to force the leaders of the Jaganath Temple to allow Haridas Thakura to enter. The Lord didn't do that. But He showed His disapproval of their policy by visiting Haridas Thakura daily.
This shows there is a difference between not agitating others to accept the policies of ISKCON, and allowing others to dictate policies within the movement.
Those brought up in India are conditioned to accept erronious traditions( caste system) as orthodox Vedic teaching. The social conditioning in the west is also incompatible with Krishna Consciousness.
We all must move toward accepting the instructions of the Yuga Avatar and the Founder-Acharya as the ultimate authority of Vedic Truth, without shocking people too much. That takes wisdom of collective leaders in ISKCON.
Your, specific, individual, assertion, supposedly grounded in a very general statement by a previous Acarya, is a thesis statement without the thesis.