Female Diksha Gurus Should Not be Allowed
Undoubtedly, several senior women devotees in our movement are as learned, dedicated, and in other ways spiritually qualified as many of their godbrothers. Why then should there be any hesitation to induct them as diksa-gurus? An important consideration is that the role of a guru, although wholly spiritual by nature,Continue Reading
Legal Notice to ISKCON GBC
Dear leaders of ISKCON, This is a legal notice which will turn into a never-ending court case if you pass a resolution which will allow female diksa gurus in our movement without thoroughly discussing the matter with Indian ISKCON leaders who will be most affected by such a decision. IfContinue Reading
Three leading Sri Vaisnava scholars comment on ISKCON’s pending female diksa-guru decision
Dear GBC members and other leaders of ISKCON, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The determination of the GBC body to create new rules for female diksa-gurus in secret and then vote on them, also in secret, without taking into account the views of the restContinue Reading
Resolving Contradictions Between Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Words, Sādhu & Śāstra
Vaiṣṇava Academy (Opposite Goshala) 3rd Floor, South Classroom (on the Left) February 18th and 19th (lecture) and 20th (workshop) From 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Presenters: Dāmodara Dāsa (BVKS) and Kṛṣṇa-kīrti Dāsa (BVKS)Continue Reading
Why You Accept?
It’s not Prabhupadas fault, that so many mlecchas, yavanas, varna sankaras came to the ISKCON. It is testimony of His greatness, that even they accepted His message. It’s not Prabhupadas fault, that they have brought all the dirty things, all the adharma with them, even trying to establish it asContinue Reading
Interview with Acharya Samskritananda on Female Diksha Gurus
Interview with Acharya Samskritananda on Female Diksha Gurus Part 1 Part 2Continue Reading
Time, Place and Circumstances
Before I proceed I’ll let you know why I am writing this. A few days back I was attending an evening Bhagavad Gita class and a devotee asked a question. Which is about today’s position of ISKCON compare to Srila Prabhupada’s time (founder acharya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness)?Continue Reading
Perfect Module of Varnasrama
Society starts with family. Every family – I mean family and not “mama papa me” – family where are 30-40 members – every such family can be perfect varnasrama module. Idea “of birth casteism” is crazy. You cannot get even 6 Brahmanas in a family at once – what toContinue Reading
Srila Prabhupada, not equal to women
I will give you some instances to show you that Prabhupada was not equal to women. I was sitting with Prabhupada at 7 Bury Place, our first temple in London. He told me that if Jamuna Devi who was the wife of the temple president, had been a man, itContinue Reading