Global VDG Committee

ISKCON Guru Asita Krishna Swami Vows to Fight the Approval of Female Diksa Gurus: “Whatever Fight You Have to Make, We Will Make It”

In a phone video recorded at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Govardhan, the ashram’s temple president, an ISKCON initiating guru, says…

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Watch the GBC Decide the Future of Female Diksa Gurus: Eight Unreleased Committee Recordings, Published in Full

Akincana Gocara publishes the video recordings of eight meetings of the GBC’s Global Vaiṣṇavī Dīkṣā-Guru Committee, held between 14 July…

2 weeks ago

GBC Quietly Rolls Out AI-Translated ISKCON Law, VDG Ruling Included, as Its Leaders Meet to Rethink the Guru’s Role

Without a public announcement, the Governing Body Commission has rebuilt its website, gathered every resolution since 1975 into one searchable…

2 weeks ago

“We Were Cut Off”: IISB Scholars Say GBC Gave ISKCON India Half an Hour on Female Diksa Gurus

Hours after ISKCON India’s delegation spoke at the GBC’s mid-term meeting on Vaishnavi diksa-gurus, three ISKCON India Scholars Board members…

2 weeks ago

Exclusive: Inside the GBC’s Private VDG Committee Chat – 712 Messages on Female Diksha Gurus, Published in Full

For five weeks this summer, the representatives the GBC gathered to settle whether women may serve as initiating gurus in…

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