ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY Reg. No S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, W. Bengal MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ISKCON GBC SOCIETY SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, MARCH 1 -12, 2002 RESOLUTIONS APPOINTMENTS: 1. THAT His Holiness Giridhari Swami is elected as GBC Chairman. […]
ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY Reg. No S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, W. Bengal MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ISKCON GBC SOCIETY SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, FEBRUARY 7 -19, 2001 RESOLUTIONS APPOINTMENTS: 1. THAT His Holiness Ramai Swami is elected as GBC Chairman.
Female Diksa-gurus in ISKCON A paper by the Sastric Advisory Council (SAC) Members participating in the authorship of this paper: Suhotra Svami, Gopiparanadhana Dasa, Drutakarma Dasa, Purnacandra Dasa, Devamrta Dasa Introduction On the 17th of September 2003, the Sastric Advisory Council (SAC) received a request from the Executive Committee (EC) of the GBC requesting it
Although some valid points and suggestions can be found in the booklet Srila Prabhupada: The Prominent Link (PL), we have discovered that a number of the premises and conclusions presented there oppose not only Srila Prabhupada’s instructions for ISKCON but also the basic principles of the Gaudiya sampradaya, Vaisnavism in general, and Vedic tradition. A
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Members participating in the authorship of this paper: Drutakarma Dasa, Gopiparanadhana Dasa, Purnacandra Dasa, and Urmila Devi Dasi. “The rules and regulation are that nobody should accept blindly any guru, and nobody should blindly accept any disciple. They must behave, one another, at least for one year so that the prospective disciple can also understand,
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To the Executive Committee of the GBC Respected Vaisnavas, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. On 3 July 2005, the EC asked the Sastric Advisory Committee (SAC) to offer some assistance in the GBC’s consideration of the request that Sukadeva Maharaja be allowed to initiate disciples. Sukadeva Maharaja received all of
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Listed below are evidences for both sides of the issue, our analysis and conclusion. Pro-Beard Evidence (mainly from Srila Prabhupada’s letters, lectures and conversations) 1) “The Panca-tattva can all be golden. The Deity of Lord Caitanya is very nicely done so there is no need to change the color. Yes, Srivas Pandit has sikha. Vaisnava
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ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY Reg. No S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ISKCON GBC BODY SOCIETY SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, MARCH 2, 2000 RESOLUTIONS APPOINTMENTS: 1. His Grace Ravindra Svarupa Das is elected as Chairman. 2.
ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY Reg. No S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 P.O. Shree Mayapura Dham, Dist. Nadia, W. Bengal MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ISKCON GBC BODY SOCIETY SRI DHAM MAYAPURA, FEBRUARY 5 –16, 1999 RESOLUTIONS APPOINTMENTS: 1. THAT, as our 1998 Chairman could not fulfill
ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY Reg. No. S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, W. Bengal MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, FEBRUARY 19 – 26, 1998 1. Harikesa Swami is elected as GBC Chairman. 2. Ravindra Svarupa Das is elected as First