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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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