VDG WEBSITE RELEASE NOTES V-1.1 This website on the issue of ‘Vaishnavi Diksha Guru Issue’ is a humble attempt to compile and present all the relevant quotes and articles by different devotees on the VDG issue in an organized form. The website is meant to be an information hub on the VDG issue so as to facilitate informed decision making:

Everything written on VDG is available at one spot Categorized & tagged for easy navigation

URL FOR WEBSITE

http://vdg.iskconinfo.com/

On this URL all the content on VDG issue would be available.

Unique Username & Passwords will be individually provided for all the GBCs.

FOUR SECTIONS OF THE WEBSITE

QUOTES

While going through the articles by various authors, it was observed that some of Srila Prabhupada’s quotes were quoted partially which might hinder a wholesome understanding of the issue. Therefore the need was felt to present the full relevant passages of Srila Prabhupada’s words from his books, lectures, letters and conversations. Srila Prabhupada’s quotes are tagged based on whether the quote is from Srila Prabhupada’s books, lectures, letters and conversations and these quotes are chronologically arranged.

Also quotes from scriptures and acaryas are also presented. Quotes are classified under 4 categories:

1. Srila Prabhupada Quotes

2. Gaudiya Acharyas Quotes

3. Shastric statements

4. Other Vaishnava Sampradayas Quotes

FULL ARTICLES

Full Articles of the authors in PDF format are available here. You can click on the link ‘View Article’ and the article will open in PDF format in a new tab. Full Articles by following Authors are available for viewing:

1. HG Abhaya Mudra devi dasi 2. HG Ajamila dasa 3. HG Ambika devi dasi 4. HH Badrinarayan Swami Maharaj 5. HG Basu Ghosh dasa 6. HG Bhakta Rupa dasa & HG Madhavananda dasa 7. HH BhaktiVikas Maharaj 8. HG Chitralekha devi dasi 9. HG Devaki devi dasi 10. HG Dushyanta dasa 11. HG Gokul Chandra dasa 12. HG Govinda devi dasi 13. HG Hari Parsada Dasa 14. HG NityanandaDasa 15. HG Kaunteya dasa 16. HG Krishna Kirti dasa 17. HG Narada Priya devi dasi 18. HG Niscala devi dasi 19. HG Phalini devi dasi 20. HG Praghosa dasa 21. HG Radhakrishna Brahmacari 22. HG Rocana dasa 23. SAC Original Paper 24. SAC- Prudent Qs Shastric As 25. SAC Response to Shivaram Swami 26. HG Sita Ram dasa 27. HH Sivarama Swami 28. HG Vishakha devi dasi

AUTHOR PROFILES

A brief biodata of authors is available here. However we have not been able to obtain all the author profiles. So only some of the profiles are uploaded.

COMPILATIONS

More than 1000 pages of literary material have been generated by more than 30 authors on the VDG issue. All this is spread across 30 articles/ books/ papers/ comments etc. scattered all over the web and even outside which make it difficult to make a comprehensive study of the issue. Recognizing this all 30 articles by different authors were first collected. 6 main themes of discussion in these articles along with the issues within them were identified as a next step. These articles were then broken down into smaller sections which correspond to these themes & issues, to make ‘Compilations’ of these articles.

A Compilation is a section of an article that presents a unique argument on a particular Theme & Issue.

Each Compilation contains the following info:

• Argument Title (A one line Summary of the Section)

• Argument Stand- Pro/ Anti

• Author Name

• Source (URL of the website from where article was picked up)

• Citation

– Reference & Quotation (The verse/ conversation/ letter they have quoted to prove their argument)

– Citation Type- Shastric statement/ SP quote/ Acarya Quote/ Pratyaksha/ Logic

• Inference- The inference that the author makes based on the quotation. Sometimes the quotation is included within the text

• Remarks- Here we have included verification information i.e. instances of inappropriately quoting Srila Prabhupada have been mentioned.

• Comments: Devotees can comment on any Compilation and thus start a discussion to which other devotees can respond or comment.

DISCLAIMER

Please note that the categorization and organization of articles into compilations is for the convenience of the readers by helping them to navigate faster to what they want to read. However, if the readers feel that this way of categorization and organization of data leads to discontinuity or loss of information, they can choose to read the Full Articles by various authors which are also provided under the ‘Full Articles’ Tab.