Female Diksa Gurus
A Response to the Racial Parallel in the Female Diksha Guru Debate
What follows below is a commentary from His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami on his recent article
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Women in Leadership
Varnasrama-dharma
Seeing the “new thing” through the eyes of sastra
The fundamental argument for allowing women in ISKCON equal access to positions in management (temple president, GBC, etc.) and also act as diksa-guru is that Srila Prabhupada introduced something new. But did…
Female Diksa Gurus
Basu Ghosh Das responds to Garuda Das
Brief Introduction of Basu Ghosh Das, He is the Vice Chairman of the ISKCON India Governing Council (Bureau), and has been serving in ISKCON India since 1974. He is also Regional Secretary for…
Female Diksa Gurus
Reply to the Online Petition to the ISKCON GBC – by Basu Ghosh Das
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…
Female Diksa Gurus
Prabhupada’s Social Vision: Yamuna and Jayatirtha
How can FDG proponents say that Srila Prabhupada wanted female gurus all along when he clearly writes in the quoted letters - do not start big programs to attract the masses? But…
Mission and Cultural Change
ISKCON schisms look like others
The interesting thing is that we are struggling over the same issues that the Christians are in Western society. That suggests there is a single, secular Western influence that is driving the…
Female Diksa Gurus
MOTHERS OR MASTERS?
I really do not understand, why demons must exploit women by giving to them artificial and unnatural positions in society, by depriving them of their natural position of Mother. Why one should…
Female Diksa Gurus
BUT THE CARAVAN GOES ON
I just heard this beautiful, standing ovation presentation by Sivarama Maharaja on vaisnavi diksha gurus and wanted to present few additional perspectives to the already brilliant on its own speech he gave.…
Books and Media
REJECTED! (Emergence of Women’s Voices in ISKCON)
Dear Respected Vaishnavas/i, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This is an open affirmation on the rejection of the book entitled ‘The Emergence of Women’s Voices in ISKCON’…
Female Diksa Gurus
Female Diksha Guru — Some Considerations
There is a definite “push” for a female diksha guru in ISKCON that is the proverbial “elephant in the room”, as the title of the recent article on Dandavats.com by Devaki Mataji…
