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The debate on Vaisnavi (female) diksa gurus: GBC resolutions and process, sastric and historical arguments, responses, related women’s upanayana/sannyasa questions.
Background In January 2021, an anonymous author circulated a paper titled Sunīti’s Ineligibility in ISKCON. An analysis of two statements made by Śrīla Prabhupāda (further on referred to as SI for brevity).…
February 2021 Dear Swamiji, Yatibhyonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Here is a link to a lecture -- it can be heard fully at this link -- that Srila Prabhupada gave at Los Angeles…
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada Kalakantha Prabhu (and probably some others) have been circulating a paper titled "Suniti's Ineligibility in ISKCON", dated 11…
What is initiation? How this applies to the subject of female Diksha gurus [FDGs] ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explained it in his purport to CC Madhya 15.108: [the following…
Further talks with Maharaj on the subject of female diksha gurus. For the previous article, please go to the following link:
This is my main confusion when it comes to ladies becoming “spiritual leaders” in it’s full sense. This is a clear example from Caitanya Caritamrita how one can be an instructing, but…
This is a refutation to Maharaja's comment on Facebook, the comment of Maharaja can be seen below. Basu Ghosh Das: Prabhupada: In the history of India there is no woman leader. Throughout…
I really do not understand, why demons must exploit women by giving to them artificial and unnatural positions in society, by depriving them of their natural position of Mother. Why one should…
To stop all the confusion around the definition of vaisnavis acting as gurus, may I present to you an excerpt from Sri Caitanya Caritamrita which puts an end to all these confusions…
“Did Śrīla Prabhupāda Want Women Dīkṣā-gurus? Eye of the storm,” a book by Kaunteya Dāsa (project coordinator) has indeed created a storm in the Vaiṣṇava community ever since it was published back…
