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From the Governing Body Commission of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness<\/strong><\/p>\n (Editor\u2019s note: This is the 312 of the 2014 GBC resolutions. You can find the Minutes Of The 2014 Annual General Meeting in our archives section<\/a> or directly here<\/a>)<\/p>\n Whereas in ISKCON men had generally been taught to see all women other than their wives as mother;<\/p>\n Whereas in more recent times a practice has gained momentum that women should not be called “Mataji,” but “Prabhu;”<\/p>\n Whereas the word “Prabhu” is traditionally used to address men;<\/p>\n Whereas one section of ISKCON considers addressing women as “Prabhu” to have no cultural or<\/p>\n linguistic backing, or any evidentiary or experiential support from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings;<\/p>\n Whereas another section of ISKCON cites conversational or correspondence-based evidence that Srila Prabhupada addressed female disciples as “Prabhu;”<\/p>\n Whereas there is increasing discord among the proponents of these two opinions;<\/p>\n Whereas all initiated women also have the title “Devi” as part of their spiritual name, an address that could also apply to the non-initiated<\/p>\n RESOLVED:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whereas in ISKCON men had generally been taught to see all women other than their wives as mother; Whereas in more recent times a practice has gained momentum that women should not be called “Mataji,” but “Prabhu;” Whereas the word “Prabhu” is traditionally used to address men; Whereas one section of ISKCON considers addressing women as “Prabhu” to have no cultural or linguistic backing, or any evidentiary or experiential support from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings; Whereas another section of ISKCON cites conversational or correspondence-based evidence that Srila Prabhupada addressed female disciples as “Prabhu;” Whereas there is increasing discord among the proponents of these two opinions; Whereas all initiated women also have the title “Devi” as part of their spiritual name, an address that could also apply to the non-initiated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-gbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-05-18_12-01-08.jpg\"\/)
By the Governing Body Commission of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness<\/strong><\/p>\n