News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
Dear Readers, A couple of days back, I received a letter from a concerned devotee in Canada. He expressesd concerned about the “tilt towards female diksha gurus” [“FDGs”] amongst a section of…
Dear members of the GBC, Dear members of the GBC, Please accept our humble obeisance’s. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We have come to know that you intend to go ahead with implementing women…
In this part we show that, after eighteen pages of a paper that extensively uses mathematics, MMD and his fellow mathematicians say that Sunīti could not initiate Dhruva because she was “afflicted…
When conducting any survey, one of the most important concerns a researcher has is in eliminating bias. Even if the bias is unintentional, if your survey is biased in any way, the…
In order to defend H.H. Bhakti Vikāśa Swami's criticism of the attempt to use mathematics to interpret Śrīla Prabhupāda's statement about the ineligibility of Sunīti to become her son Dhruva's dīkṣā-guru, Dāmodara…
In the paper The Sunīti Pramāṇa and Set Theory, the authors apply formal logic to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s statement in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.12.32 in order to prove that it does not indicate that women are generally disallowed…
Dear Bhakti Vikāśa Mahārāja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. On February 18, 2021, you
Background In January 2021, an anonymous author circulated a paper titled Sunīti’s Ineligibility in ISKCON. An analysis of two statements made by Śrīla Prabhupāda (further on referred to as SI for brevity).…
February 2021 Dear Swamiji, Yatibhyonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Here is a link to a lecture -- it can be heard fully at this link -- that Srila Prabhupada gave at Los Angeles…
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada Kalakantha Prabhu (and probably some others) have been circulating a paper titled "Suniti's Ineligibility in ISKCON", dated 11…
