When the GBC rejects you, you must be really too much!
Urmila Dasi's Personality Disqualified her from Being FDG
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Urmila Dasi's Personality Disqualified her from Being FDG
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Basu Ghosh Das Abhay S. Deolekar - The candidature of Urmila Mataji for FDG was already discussed by the GBC during their AGM (annual general meeting) at Mayapur back during 2012, and it was rejected. The reasoning behind the decision is confidential, but I was told by someone who is "in the know" (who heard from a GBC member) that her personality was the reason for her rejection.
So now the pro-FDG faction/GBC members, led by my "vartma pradarshak guru" (he was my temple commander at ISKCON Chicago for 2 months back during 1973, before I was initiated), Bir Krishna Maharaj, have recommended the name of Narayani Devi Dasi, an American devotee who lives at Vrindavan and teaches in the VIHE there, for FDG.
Last year, at the GBC AGM, her candidature was put on hold after a vote was taken, after a lengthy discussion, where I was present as one of ISKCON India's representatives. Unfortunately Sivaram Swami had to leave Mayapur before the discussion to attend to his ailing mother - who later on passed away. He is one of the main opponents of FDG on the GBC body. He expressed the desire that the ISKCON India leaders convey their opinion regarding FDG to the GBC body, and that was done during 2012, and subsequently a letter recomfirming the ISKCON India leaders opposition was sent to the GBC in October.
The most outspoken proponent of FDG seems to be Kaunteya Das, of the Congregational Development Ministry, and yes, Madhavananda and Bhaktarupa Prabhus support him, along with Hari Parshada Das, from Bombay, a Sanskrit scholar (of sorts - meaning, well, obviously he knows something, but I am sure that there is much more to be known by him)! Samskritam is a vast field of study, that is certain, and we all have much to learn! As far as FDG is concerned, well, it simply is NOT what Srila Prabhupada and Srila Saraswati Thakur envisioned as a part of "daivi varnashram". I continue to believe that the "push" for FDG is simply the influence of the "equal rights" movement so popular in the Western world.
So now the pro-FDG faction/GBC members, led by my "vartma pradarshak guru" (he was my temple commander at ISKCON Chicago for 2 months back during 1973, before I was initiated), Bir Krishna Maharaj, have recommended the name of Narayani Devi Dasi, an American devotee who lives at Vrindavan and teaches in the VIHE there, for FDG.
Last year, at the GBC AGM, her candidature was put on hold after a vote was taken, after a lengthy discussion, where I was present as one of ISKCON India's representatives. Unfortunately Sivaram Swami had to leave Mayapur before the discussion to attend to his ailing mother - who later on passed away. He is one of the main opponents of FDG on the GBC body. He expressed the desire that the ISKCON India leaders convey their opinion regarding FDG to the GBC body, and that was done during 2012, and subsequently a letter recomfirming the ISKCON India leaders opposition was sent to the GBC in October.
The most outspoken proponent of FDG seems to be Kaunteya Das, of the Congregational Development Ministry, and yes, Madhavananda and Bhaktarupa Prabhus support him, along with Hari Parshada Das, from Bombay, a Sanskrit scholar (of sorts - meaning, well, obviously he knows something, but I am sure that there is much more to be known by him)! Samskritam is a vast field of study, that is certain, and we all have much to learn! As far as FDG is concerned, well, it simply is NOT what Srila Prabhupada and Srila Saraswati Thakur envisioned as a part of "daivi varnashram". I continue to believe that the "push" for FDG is simply the influence of the "equal rights" movement so popular in the Western world.
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