News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
The debate on Vaisnavi (female) diksa gurus: GBC resolutions and process, sastric and historical arguments, responses, related women’s upanayana/sannyasa questions.
This video presentation was made to the IIAC (ISKCON India Advisory Council) on 21 November, 2019. The slide presentation explains why there are so many long-standing controversies within ISKCON and how this…
The GBC of North America has passed a resolution to introduce a Female Diksa Guru program into ISKCON. For some of us long-time initiates this situation has been an ongoing fear of…
Letter from Basu Ghosh Das Dear Godbrother Prabhu, Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Received your message: Letter from Godbrother Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu Ji, Why are there so many female TPs today, as…
My Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances_/\ò_. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here is a video where His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami recalls how much Srila Prabhupada glorified Yamuna…
Pranam Prabhus. Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah. >> My reasoning is that we want to understand Srila Prabhupada's intentions and desires on how to apply shastra. Yes, this is right intention: we…
Letter by Basu Ghosh Prabhu: Dear Pancharatna Prabhu, Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Received your message, and it appears herein below. Before I composed a response to your response to my response to…
Resolution from the annual meeting of the NA GBC&TP, January 11, 2020 We, the ISKCON North American GBC Members and Temple Presidents, profoundly thank the international GBC body for
Below are comments I sent in to Dandavats.com shortly after they posted the GBC announcement of authorizing women diksa gurus within ISKCON. That was in mid October. The article they posted was…
In my dream, I saw devotees were gathered for the morning class on the Srimad Bhagavatam at my local ISKCON temple. The speaker was speaking on the subject of men and women.…
