Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Does the GBC prohibit śūdras in ISKCON from becoming dīkṣā-guru?

Does the GBC prohibit śūdras in ISKCON from becoming dīkṣā-guru? By Kṛṣṇa-kīrti-dāsaḥ 29 November 2025 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s celebrated statement…

10 months ago

Preaching According to Time, Place, and Circumstance without Adhikara is Trouble

The thing I want to point out is that having done this at this one part of this one book…

6 years ago

Narada-Muni Bajaya Vina

The seven musical notes — ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha and ni — are used in musical instruments, but…

6 years ago

Gaura Purnima – Appearanca of Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd…

7 years ago

Ominous Example of Vipina Vihari Goswami

Among pro-FDG arguments there often appears example of Vipina Vihari Goswami's lineage. There were three women there, not counting Jahnava…

7 years ago

Continuing thoughts on the issue of female diksha gurus and the authority of the ISKCON GBC to authorize it in ISKCON

O my Prabhus and all servants of Mahaprabhu's Lotus Feet. My obeisance. I have tried to focus my comments about…

7 years ago

What Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote about Christianity?

"Some philosophers say that because of the first living entity's sin, all the other living entities are imprisoned in the…

7 years ago

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura appearance day

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838-1914) was a pioneering spiritual leader, a magistrate working in colonial India under British rule, a prolific…

7 years ago

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur on Christianity

Thinking about the virtues and faults of this world, some moralistic monotheists concluded that this material world is not a…

8 years ago

The Glories of Sri Purusottama Month by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Two divisions of sastra—smarta and  paramartha The Vedic arya-sastras are divided into two sections—smarta (literature based on smrti) andparamartha (transcendental…

8 years ago