Women in Leadership

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 ISKCON on a Mission…

8 months ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

MOTHERS OR MASTERS?

I really do not understand, why demons must exploit women by giving to them artificial and unnatural positions in society,…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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”,…

6 years ago