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
New age ISKCON which provides you gymnastic and meditational yoga-related courses and compromises the mission of the organization. Below are some experiences which revealed the Srila Prabhupada’s position towards these mundane activities. Danavir Goswami’s experience with Srila Prabhupada was that he wanted only the teachings of our Vaisnava books taught to newcomers.Continue Reading
It is profoundly shocking that ignoring sastra and guru and sadhu has become a fashion. I refer to the announcement that the ISKCON GBC has evidently according to report decided to allow female initiating guru. The fact that the founder-acharya said ” Women can never transcend the modes of passionContinue Reading
FDG Revisited A paper on the FDG/Female Diksa Guru Issue Evidence Ignored by SAC FDG Theory A Review of SAC FDG Paper by Ambika Devi Dasi Introduction According to religious principles, a female guru must be chaste assistant/helpmate to her husband. She is there-by called dharma-patni. If her husbandContinue Reading
A couple of days ago one Russian devotee who is a “GBC Deputy”, which means he serves in some sort of an advisory role, gave a long talk answering various concerns regarding recent GBC resolution authorizing Female Diksha Gurus. He was present during that meeting, translating for a Russian GBCContinue Reading
The very first supporting argument in the recent GBC resolution concerning female devotees becoming gurus contains the following sentence: “So I hope that all of you, men, women, boys and girls, become spiritual master and follow this principle.” It’s taken from London Vyasa Puja address given on 22 August, 1973, availableContinue Reading
A Reply to the GBC Action Order 305 (2009) Part One Part Two Part Three “Suniti, however, being a woman, and specifically his mother, could not become Dhruva Maharaja’s diksa-guru.” SB 4.12.32 purport In this response to SAC’s (Sastric Advisory Committee) paper titled Female Diksa-gurus in ISKCON, on whichContinue Reading
The post below has been taken and translated from the official page of ISKCON Belém, in Brazil. Engaged in the Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign, ISKCON Belém ( @iskconbelem ) and Vida Zen Belém ( @vidazenbelem ) hold a special program aimed at alerting women and society about theContinue Reading
When a supposedly advanced group of devotees made a decision with full knowledge of Guru Sadhu and Sastra but only to reject all three and just yield to the pressure from western uncultured butchers of Vedic culture… When a common devotee gets this information and if that person rejects itContinue Reading
Song Being a lifelong songwriter as well as initiated disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami I know the effect of song and it’s origination. My spiritual master often talked about the uselessness of ” rubbish sex songs”. By this he did not mean songs about the act of reproduction but theContinue Reading