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Female Diksa Gurus

The debate on Vaisnavi (female) diksa gurus: GBC resolutions and process, sastric and historical arguments, responses, related women’s upanayana/sannyasa questions.

Female Diksa Gurus

Is Manu-samhita bad for us?

This is from an exchange I had with an ISKCON leader and sannyasi regarding the misunderstandings many devotees seem to have about Manu-samhita. The first message begins with an exchange between Basu…

Krishna-kirti Dasa · 11 Sep 2021 · Letter
Female Diksa Gurus

Did MMD et.al Insult Sunīti? – Part 1

In this part we show that, after eighteen pages of a paper that extensively uses mathematics, MMD and his fellow mathematicians say that Sunīti could not initiate Dhruva because she was “afflicted…

Sridhara Srinivasa dasa · 28 Apr 2021
Female Diksa Gurus

Biased Survey

When conducting any survey, one of the most important concerns a researcher has is in eliminating bias. Even if the bias is unintentional, if your survey is biased in any way, the…

Krishna-kirti Dasa · 20 Apr 2021 · Letter
Female Diksa Gurus

Can a liberated soul make false statements?

In the paper The Sunīti Pramāṇa and Set Theory, the authors apply formal logic to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s statement in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.12.32 in order to prove that it does not indicate that women are generally disallowed…

Krishna-kirti Dasa · 7 Mar 2021