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Does the GBC prohibit śūdras in ISKCON from becoming dīkṣā-guru? By Kṛṣṇa-kīrti-dāsaḥ 29 November 2025 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s celebrated statement — “Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra, he…
The thing I want to point out is that having done this at this one part of this one book [Sri Krishna Samhita], Bhaktivinode Thakura never does it again. Shukavak admits that…
The seven musical notes — ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha and ni — are used in musical instruments, but originally they come from the Sāma Veda. The great sage Nārada vibrates…
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd Phalguna (1407 Sakadba), answering to the 18th of February 1486 of the…
Among pro-FDG arguments there often appears example of Vipina Vihari Goswami's lineage. There were three women there, not counting Jahnava Mata herself. Should we consider it as bogus and useless because of…
O my Prabhus and all servants of Mahaprabhu's Lotus Feet. My obeisance. I have tried to focus my comments about FDG to both precedents set by our own Founder Acharya and his…
"Some philosophers say that because of the first living entity's sin, all the other living entities are imprisoned in the material world. Later, punishing Himself for their sins, God delivers the living…
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838-1914) was a pioneering spiritual leader, a magistrate working in colonial India under British rule, a prolific preacher, writer, and poet. One of his sons was Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati…
