A Message for ISKCON’s Governing Body Comission – Gokulachandra Dasa
2020-01-11
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Continuing thoughts on the issue of female diksha gurus and the authority of the ISKCON GBC to authorize it in ISKCON
2020-01-11
O my Prabhus and all servants of Mahaprabhu’s Lotus Feet. My obeisance. I have tried to focus my comments about FDG to both precedents set by our own Founder Acharya and his parampara predecessors and the adhikar of a group of managers (Ultimate Managers, not Acharyas) to hold a voteContinue Reading
My response to your comments on Abhiram Prabhu’s article
2020-01-09
Letter from Basu Ghosh Das Dear Pancharatna Prabhu [ACBSP], Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Received your message, copied herein below, on the topic of the GBC resolution authorizing female diksha gurus in ISKCON, and your consideration for and agreement with some of the points made by Abhiram Prabhu in his articleContinue Reading
Keep the Sun shining…
2020-01-09
Revered Vaishnavas, Offering my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of anyone who has served ISKCON and also at the feet of those who will serve in the future, I address the body of devotees in whose hands lies the power to make decisions affecting the very future of SrilaContinue Reading
On Geographical considerations dictating theological conclusions
2020-01-08
This short essay is in response to a recent decision by the ISKCON International Governing Body (GBC) in the matter of supporting, allowing, instituting, establishing, and blessing female diksha gurus in the ISKCON Hare Krishna Movement. In the GBC resolution authorizing female diksha gurus, it is written: “The GBC BodyContinue Reading
Why we should question the wisdom of ISKCON instituting Female Diksa Gurus
2020-01-08
I have always been a faithful ISKCON follower. Over the years I have waited patiently, observing occasional mistakes made by ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC). Discovering that after many years of holding the line against introducing leftist feminist ideology into ISKCON, that the GBC finally caved-in to pressure to authorizeContinue Reading
Discussion On The Female Diksha Guru Issue: Amongst Godbrothers-6
2020-01-05
Godbrother: Today, armchair observers may agree or disagree. But we who preach to Westerners every day know that what Srila Prabhupada did in America still works, and imposing Vedic social constructs does not. Outside studies affirm that today’s Western youth largely judge religious organizations by how they treat women. BasuContinue Reading
Mystery of initiation
2020-01-01
The following is a thread of quotes and ideas which ties together several aspects of approaching a guru and taking initiation. It’s by no means complete, but if one insists on a different understanding it should be kept in mind that quotes given here should also be accommodated and notContinue Reading
Discussion On The Female Diksha Guru Issue: Amongst Godbrothers-5
2019-12-24
Dear Godbrother Prabhu, Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Received your message. Godbrother: Now, India is flourishing and America is struggling. When we in America who are still managing to reach Americans ask our Indian brothers to allow us to do what works (both for Srila Prabhupada and us) in America, we are told we areContinue Reading