FEMALE ISK’CON GURUS

FEMALE ISK’CON GURUS

GBC RESOLUTION:

1. That resolution 425/2005 “Female Diksa Guru” is amended to read as follows:
“The GBC accepts the philosophical conclusion presented in the SAC’s Female Diksa Guru Paper that a mature, qualified, female devotee may accept the role of an initiating spiritual master.”

2. The GBC Body authorizes local area committees to put forward for approval as initiating guru any devotee in their area, male or female, who is qualified according to existing GBC Law.

[GBC Resolution – Action Order]

305. Female Diksa Gurus
Whereas there is a factual need for more diksa-gurus in ISKCON to accommodate the worldwide preaching;

Whereas there are mature female preachers qualified to take on diksa-guru responsibilities;

Whereas there are a number of such qualified women who already have siksa disciples;

Whereas the GBC Body previously issued the following statement in 2005, which has now been given further consideration:

425. Female Diksa Guru
The GBC accepts the basic philosophical conclusion presented in the SAC’s Female Diksa Guru Paper, i.e. that a mature, qualified, female devotee may accept the role of an initiating spiritual master. The implementation thereof is pending further GBC consideration. 

RESOLVED:
1. That resolution 425/2005 “Female Diksa Guru” is amended to read as follows:
“The GBC accepts the philosophical conclusion presented in the SAC’s Female Diksa Guru Paper that a mature, qualified, female devotee may accept the role of an initiating spiritual master.”

COMMENT: the whole ISK’CON guru process is bogus, wherther they are male or female gurus. Self-appointed ISK’CON kali-cela gurus are nothing but opportunistic shenanigans that are going on in the name of ‘preaching’ and pseudo devotional service.

IskCon’s Great female GBC Guru Circus

“Prabhupada: So-called gurus, they are so-called gurus. They are not gurus. That is already explained. If one does not speak what Krsna speaks, he is not guru. If you accept so-called guru, that is your misfortune. What can be done?

Pusta Krsna: Some of them will say some things that Krsna says, but they’ll take from other places also. What is the position of such persons?

Prabhupada: HE’S MOST DANGEROUS. He’s most dangerous. HE IS OPPORTUNIST. HE’S FINDING OUT CUSTOMER, something here… According to the customer he is giving something, as the customers will be pleased. So he is not guru.”  760628bj.nv

“It is now evident that some of our top men are very much ambitious and there has been so many fall-downs.”
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, January 27th, 1975)

“But the difficulty is that our GBC men are falling victim to maya. Today I trust this GBC and tomorrow he will fall down. That is the difficulty. If the GBC men are so flickering then what to speak of the others. Unless this problem is solved whatever we may resolve it will not be very useful.” (Srila Prabhupada Letter, December 16th, 1974)

“Our mission is to serve bhakta-visesa and live with devotees. Not that you take the place of the guru. That is nonsense, very dangerous. Then everything will be spoiled. As soon as you become ambitious to take the place of guru—gurusu nara-matih. That is the material disease.” (Srila Prabhupada Conversation, April 20th, 1977)

“The GBC should all be the instructor gurus. I am the initiator guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing. This is not a title, but you must actually come to this platform. This I want.”
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 4th, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada: “I am the Spiritual Master of this institution, and ALL the members of the Society, they’re supposed to be MY disciples. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are INITIATED BY ME spiritually” – (Srila Prabhupada Radio Interview, 12 March 1968, San Francisco)

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Second Generation Devotees Not Allowed to be ISKCON ‘Gurus!’ (But women are)

GBC RESOLUTION – RESOLVED:
“Whereas the moratorium on both Vaishnavi and second-generation devotees serving as diksa-guru remains…” (2018 GBC Resolutions)

Pratyatosa: It’s a sin to be born within the Hare Krishna Movement? Those born within the movement are, according to the GBC, inferior to those born in meat-eating families? Former “drug addicted hippies” are superior to the 2nd generation of Hare Krishna devotees? Sounds crazy to me!

ISKCON is about what one might expect from an organization run by former “drug-addicted hippies” who suffer from permanent brain damage due to all of the LSD they swallowed! One of the symptoms of their insanity is “delusions of grandeur!” Therefore, they are thinking, “I am a guru like Prabhupada!”

“RESOLVED:That the Sastric Advisory Committee is requested to research the evidence for women being called “Mataji”, “Prabhu” or “Devi” and give a conclusive directive as to which of these terms should and should not be used by members of ISKCON.” (2014 GBC Resolutions) After 4 years, this simple question still has not been answered! So how can the GBC be expected to ever resolve anything more serious?

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Three leading Sri Vaisnava scholars comment
on ISKCON’s pending female diksa-guru decision

Krishna-kirti Dasa

Dear GBC members and other leaders of ISKCON, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The determination of the GBC body to create new rules for female diksa-gurus in secret and then vote on them, also in secret, without taking into account the views of the rest of ISKCON’s devotees has been divisive and ill-advised. The ISKCON India leadership in particular has already passed a resolution formally protesting this.

Other Vaishnava sampradayas have also raised concerns. Attached with this message are letters from three leading scholars in the Sri Sampradaya who are very concerned that ISKCON in approving of female diksa-gurus is taking the path of adharma.

Professor M.A. Lakshmithathachar, a leading scholar in the Sri Sampradaya, a recipient of numerous awards, including from the President of India, and head of many institutions, as well as being the presiding Acharya of the Anantarya Peetham in Melkote, cautions that,

“If ISKCON, an internationally famous organization, goes against the shistacara and be successful, probably the other schools of Vedanta like Ramanuja, Vallabha, Nimbarka, etc., may follow suit, which results in th practice of violating the shishtacara and is not desirable. I wish ISKCON, an internationally reputed organization, will not establish a new shistacara violating all the shistacaras practiced even today in all the schools of Vedanta.”

Sri Muralidhara Bhattar, Chief Archaka of the Sri Ranganatha Swami temple, Sri Rangam, Tiruchirapalli, and descendant of the brother of Sri Venkata Bhatta, at whose house Lord Caitanya stayed, and whose famous son was Sri Gopal Bhatta Goswami, writes,

ISKCON is a reputed institution for propagating and protecting Santana Dharma. Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON, has done a monumental service to the whole world, especially the Vaishnava communities, by propagating Srimad Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam all over the world and presented in an authentic manner, or “As It Is.”

But recently, it came to my notice that the ISKCON GBC is proposing the appointment of women within ISKCON as acharyas, mantra-gurus who will give diksha. If this is indeed true, then I would like to bring to your kind attention that such decisions are asastriyam. This would be against sanatana dharmas, proper acharams and anusthanams.

Professor Lakshmikumara Tatacharyar (Vasudevan), of Sri Rangam, PhD Vishishtadvaita and professor at the Raja Sanskrit College, Kumbhakonam, writes,

“ISKCON is an international sampradaya and thus a natural leader of other smaller size sampradayas. Many youth of our sampradaya get influenced by ISKCON and then start to follow santhana dharma and come back to teachings of Ramanuja sampradaya. Many of them stay in ISKCON dharma, still we are not disturbing them because they get full opportunity to follow our dharma and we feel secured that in ISKCON they will be protected from adharma.

“But, if adharma comes into ISKCON also, then it will influence our sampradaya also. Our sampradaya members may also start asking us to implement this adharma. After Sabarimalai incident, it is already a push from outside factors; but now ISKCON also doing so will give strength to adharmic parties of the modern world to push adharma into our sampradaya.”

We pray that you take the time to read carefully the letters that we have included in this email to understand the intent and advice that they have presented for your consideration.

When ISKCON itself was a very small organization, it depended on the good will and recommendation of these very sampradayas so that the people in India and Indians around the world would recognize, honor, and assist Srila Prabhupada work and mission. And Srila Prabhupada was immeasurably pleased to have their support. So, you have to ask yourselves this: if you lose their support, will Srila Prabhupada be pleased?

In this regard, please find attached a PDF file with the statements of support for ISKCON from different sampradayas. (Anandamaya Prabhu in Hyderabad kindly supplied them.) If you review them, I am sure that you will agree that their support for Srila Prabhupada’s mission, ISKCON, has been exceptional, heart-felt, and sincere.

It is our sincere hope that the GBC will reconsider their impending decision to have female diksa-gurus and, at the very least, discuss the matter with the leaders of these other sampradayas that have helped ISKCON so much in the past.

Your servant, Krishna-kirti Dasa

p.s. For further shastric research and references and videos, including from the three scholars, please visit https://siddhanta.com/wordpress/?page_id=826

Complete article here:
https://akincana.net/2019/02/21/three-leading-sri-vaisnava-scholars-comment-on-iskcons-pending-female-diksa-guru-decision/

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