All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Lord Kṛṣṇa states in Bhagavad-gītā 4.7
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata
abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham
Whenever and wherever there is a decline in righteousness and deviation from śāstra at that time I personally descend.
Following the words of Lord Kṛṣṇa to heart we adhere to the path that they signify. Whenever and wherever we see a decline in righteousness and deviation from śāstra it is our solemn duty to rectify the situation for the benefit of society. Kali yuga is undeniably corrupted and degraded and increasing more so every day as morality, ethics and common sense are being discarded as evidenced by the Supreme Court in India today debating to legalize the travesty of same sex marriages as I am writing this preamble.
At present a situation has arisen in our Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava assembly that compromises śāstra and goes against dharma and like a disease in a healthy body must be immediately neutralized and cured.
Facts
There is an āśrama established by a brahmacārī disciple of Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda to give shelter and protection to some mātājis. They accepted that brahmacārī as their śikṣā-guru, because he was not authorized to give dikṣā initiation to any one of them, and as he died as brahmacārī subsequently those mātājis made a mūrti of him and accepted him as ācārya. Over the years these mātājis first fabricated an imaginary aberration where females can bestow dikṣā initiation to each other and later concocted another imaginary system where females can give sannyāsa to each other. This āśrama is presently led by their Guru Matha, the head quarter of that ashram is in Budge Budge near Kolkata.
COMPLAINT
The complaint we are filling is that female dikṣā gurus and female sannyāsīs are blatant deviations of Vedic śāstra and not authorized or bonafide. Thus, they are apa-sampradāya that goes against śāstra and dharma. By acting in this way, they have made aparādha to Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas and insulted its ācārya Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda who is the dikṣā guru of their guru who never authorized him to give dikṣā. They are disrespecting Vedic śāstra by making a mockery of concocting ceremonies and degrading the pristine philosophy of Vaiṣṇavas from the four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas as revealed in Vedic śāstra.
EVIDENCE
According to the following Vedic śāstra females are prohibited from being dikṣā gurus or forming disciplic successions. So to concoct and fabricate that females can accept sannyāsa and females can give sannyāsa and accept sannyāsa is totally condemned and bogus insulting all four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas.
Four ślokas Invalidating Female dikṣā-gurus
Bharadvaja-saṁhitā 1.42, 1.43, 1.59 reveal:
najatu mantrada nāri na śūdro nāntarad bhāvāḥ
nahibsasto na patitaḥ kāma -kamo’py akāminaḥ
Translation
A female, a śūdrā, a degraded person can never, ever be an initiating guru. Neither can one who is accused of sinful activities or one who has fallen down, ever be a guru.
strīyaḥ śūdrādayaś caiva bodhayeyr hitahitaṁ
yathārham mananiyas ca narhanty ācarayatam kvacit
Translation
Women and even śūdrās may give moral instructions in society according to their qualification, but both are never entitled to establish lines of disciplic succession.
atha strī-śūdra saṅkīrṇa nirmala patitadisu
ananyenan yadrstauca kṛtāpi na kṛtā bhavet
If one accepts initiation from women, śūdrās, one of mixed castes, one outside authorized disciplic succession, or one who is sinful and fallen; then such initiation is absolutely worthless even if the disciple is sincere and qualified.
Note: Advaita Ācārya, Rūpa, Sanātana and Jiva Gosvāmīs all appeared in the Bharadvaja-gotra so such ślokas are sacrosanct in the paramparā
In Kularnava Tantra: 5th division Urdhvam-naya 15.98:
ekaksare tathā kūṭe traipure mantra-nayike
strī-datte svapna-labdhe ca siddhadin naiva sodhayet
Translation
A mantra composed of one syllable, a concocted mantra, a mantra dedicated to Śiva, a mantra obtained in a dream and mantras given by women can never award perfection even if purified according to puruscarya-vidhi.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa uvaca
śruti-smṛtī mamaivājñe yas te ullaṅghya vartate
ājñā-cchedī mama dveṣī mad-bhakto ’pi na vaiṣṇavaḥ
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa spoke:
Vedic scriptures are My direct instructions. Whoever disputes them transgresses My orders and is envious of Me. Even if they claim to be My devotee, they are not Vaiṣṇavas.
We have filed this complaint with the court not to attack these mātājis who are like mothers; but to rectify and redeem them from a hellish destination as they have clearly gone far astray from Vedic tattva by not having Vaiṣṇava fathers, Vaiṣṇava husbands or Vaiṣṇava sons along with Vaiṣṇava sādhu saṅga to properly protect them from deviation and degradation.
RESOLUTION
We see in Caitanya Bhagavat that Śrī Caitanya humbly requested His mother to follow ekādaśī. Śacī Mā happily agreed to follow ekādaśī from then on. To save his mother from committing aparādha and receiving negative reactions.
With the humility of tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ, we are requesting guru-mātā the present leader of this group to act as our mother and kindly stop such deplorable and degraded activities that can bring aparādha by insulting Vaiṣṇavas, at the same time which can make a mockery by concocting imaginary ceremonies like dikṣā or sannyās for females which is completely unauthorised by Vedic śāstra.
The aparādha is illustrated by these mātājis jumping over their guru and making themselves sannyāsīs when their guru was only a brahmacārī and never a sannyāsī. Mātājis only have the right to be celibate brahmacārīnis but never dikṣā gurus or sannyāsīs.
It would also be redundant to quote that Gaṅgā Mātā Gosvāmīnī who gave dikṣā to one king of one particular state of Orissa (Puri district) together with all of his ministers because of their irresistable craving request. They could realise very easily from heart about her aprākṛta bhava or prema bhakti unto the Lotus feet of Śrī Jagannātha Deva. Actually if we can go through the Jivan-darśana of Śrī Gaṅgā Mātā Gosvāmīnī very analytically then we can realise very easily that surely she was not an ordinary lady, rather we can say safely that such exalted or great Kṛṣṇa Dāsī is really very very rare on this earth, who was the most competent personality to receive full kṛpā of Śrī Jagannātha Deva, and not only that but also according to the desire of Śrī Jagannātha Deva she was bound to act as an ācārya and was in a position to decorate the most divine āsana– which is called Vyāsāsana. She had no smell of desire for lābha, pūjā, pratiṣṭhā as a most elevated niṣkiñcana Vaiṣṇavi. So apparently it is really contradictory for common people about her role as an ācārya.
Gaṅgāmātā Gosvāmī, Hemalata Ṭhākurāṇī, or Śrīmati Janava Ṭhākurāṇī—they all are eternal parshad of Bhagavan, I mean svarup śakti-vilas vigraha of Bhagavan. They are completely beyond the limit of deha dharma (dharma of material body) or mano dharma (dharma of material mind). The question or judgment of man or woman is surely only applicable in this material world (on this material platform), but still we know that all jivattmas are śakti-tattva of Bhagavan (taṭasthā śakti), though originally they are beyond Maya (śuddha ātma tattva). According to Vedanta sūtra we can see the following sūtra—
śaktiśaktimātāyor abhed ….(From Vedanta sūtra)
That means all (sarva) Śaktimān Bhagavan and His śakti non-different from each other. Śrī Bhagavan is the original source of infinite śakti, so to be frank each and everything in this world all are related with that Parabrahma Bhagavan directly or indirectly according to acintya-bhedā-bheda tattva. So we see that at any condition we can never compare any ordinary material woman with them (those aprākṛta śakti-tattva). We cannot understand the attainment of Dhruvaloka by Dhruva Mahārāja with the same body he had, without leaving body like an ordinary case, because that was the most special case that cannot be compared with anybody. Also, Śrīla Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja went to heaven without leaving his body, which is really impossible. This kind of example cannot be accepted in our usual life.
Even in Vedic Yuga we can see some lady (mātāji) ṛṣis in front of whom Vedic mantras appeared. Gargi Devī, Kātyāyani Devī or Maitreyi Devī or Lopāmudrā etc. all those names are very important and can be found in Veda or Upaniṣad. Also as per Sounokio Brihad devotaie—a list of twenty mantra drostra lady ṛṣis (mātājis) can be found, in front of them Vedic mantras appeared. Surely this is not a matter of joke. Surely, they were beyond deho dharma or mano dharma which is really inconceivable. Mantra drostra ṛṣi means satya drostra ṛṣi. The daughter of Ambhrin Ṛṣi named Bak was also such a Vedic mantra drostra lady ṛṣi. It is impossible to meet with those eternally present Vedic mantras in materially bonded condition. Those who have already achieved the stage of Brahma realization—surely, they are not in material stage. Some time it can be seen as the most exceptional arrangement approved by the Almighty Bhagavan, but all the general arrangements are also arranged by Him, so who can break or disobey His rules and regulation to bring about a revolution in this creation, that is the most vital question.
Gaura Hari Hari Bol