News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
A week after his exchange with Damodara Dasa under an Akincana Gocara post, Rohini-tanaya Dasa has set out his case in a paper for the ISKCON India Scholars Board: Srila Prabhupada’s statement…
In a 90-second video, the author of the ISKCON India Scholars Board’s recent paper on female diksa-gurus in Gaudiya history argues that Jahnava Devi’s example does permit a woman to initiate, but…
A three-minute video from the ISKCON India Scholars Board argues that the Sastric Advisory Council’s 2005 paper on female diksa-gurus, which the GBC has accepted, explains away Srila Prabhupada’s Suniti purport with…
Akincana Gocara publishes the video recordings of eight meetings of the GBC’s Global Vaiṣṇavī Dīkṣā-Guru Committee, held between 14 July and 6 October 2026, together with the position papers that regional governing…
Hours after ISKCON India’s delegation spoke at the GBC’s mid-term meeting on Vaishnavi diksa-gurus, three ISKCON India Scholars Board members recorded a 73-minute debrief. They say the delegation had half an hour,…
For five weeks this summer, the representatives the GBC gathered to settle whether women may serve as initiating gurus in ISKCON argued the question in a WhatsApp group between their Tuesday meetings.…
Four months after Prāṇadā devī dāsī published a book arguing that women have long served as initiating gurus in the Gauḍīya line, the ISKCON India Scholars Board has answered with a twelve-page…
In a new hour-long discussion, the ISKCON India Scholars Board argues from the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that dīkṣā requires a living spiritual master, answers the ritvik doctrine, and takes up the…
The ISKCON India Scholars Board responds to GBC Chairman Madhu-sevita Das’s 2026 Janmashtami warning about internal divisions, arguing the real issue behind them is the female diksha-guru debate and the authority of…
In this video, IISB Convenor Kṛṣṇa-kīrti Dāsaḥ and IISB Senior Scholar and author Śrīdhara Śrīnivāsa Dāsaḥ discuss the resolutions from the "Statement from the Executive Committee of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission…
