13 Female Gurus in ISKCON’s Guru Parampara mentioned in Bhagavad-gita “As It Is” Hare Krishna. Good News for both sides: Pro-FDG as well as anti-FDG. From the Guru Parampara mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita “As It Is.” 65% Gurus are Females in their spiritual identities At a careful analysis of theContinue Reading
A Response to devotee’s Query to ISKCON Bureau Resolution on FDG My humble pranams to all the devotees. Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah. Following is the first para of devotee’s query email after which he ended quoting CC Madhya 23.105 with purport: In light of Srila Prabhupada’s purport, below, canContinue Reading
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, Dandavat pranams. Jaya Srila Prabhupada. Please find below a report on yesterday’s meeting that was held in ISKCON, East of Kailash, New Delhi with Madhu Pandit Prabhu and his team . Your servant, Yudhistir Govinda Das —– Bhakti Vaibhava Maharaja (GBC Chairman), Gopal Krishna Maharaja, BhaktiContinue Reading
Read also: ISKCON’s GBC members release a statement on their meeting with ritvik leader Madhu Pandit Prabhu On Friday, Dec 6, 2019, Madhu Pandit Prabhu was at the ISKCON Temple in Delhi, East of Kailash, to discuss with Gopal Krishna Maharaja, Anuttama and Bhakti Charu Swami about the possibility ofContinue Reading
Dear ACBSP #1 Prabhu, Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Received your message: Whereas, we all know that “books are the basis”, and in our foundational book, Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.12.32, Prabhupada clearly stated that “being a woman” Suniti could not be Dhruva’s diksha guru”. The Bureau finds that the said resolution institutingContinue Reading
Vaiyasaki Das: Can anyone enlighten this sanga why Jahnava Mata Iswari, Gangamata Goswamini, and Hemalata Thakurani were diska gurus in our Gaudiya Vaishnava parampara and who also had male disciples? Basu Ghosh Das: What kind of diksha gurus where the above mentioned lady devotees, Vaiyasaki Das Prabhu? Did they conferContinue Reading
Dear Devotees, Vaishnavebhyo namonamah. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! If you would be so kind, I would like to bring to your attention a resolution of the ISKCON India Governing Council (aka ”Bureau”) regarding the ISKCON GBC’s recent resolution passed at Tirupati during October 2019, authorizing female diksa-gurus (FDGs) on a geographicContinue Reading
“Our mathas are being built at many places, and many sannyasis, vanaprasthas, grhasthas, and brahmacans are living in them full time and receiving the opportunity to learn spiritual conduct. But we have been trying for a long time to also give mothers [women] opportunity for devotional service. Of course, thoseContinue Reading
Srila Prabhupada had a definite vision of the role of women – grihini – in society, and that FDG is NOT in concordance with that vision. And Prabhupada rejected it in his purport to SB 4.12.32 Woman, they are generally equipped with the qualities of passion and ignorance. And menContinue Reading
This is a reply to those who are providing the “lineages” as logic for FDG decision. “Lineage” means “caste Goswami”. Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur both condemned the caste Goswamis as Sahajiyas! Srila Prabhupada wrote in his Back to Godhead magazine, Y4, Vol. 1, part 9, in MarchContinue Reading