{"id":96730,"date":"2022-02-15T20:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=96730"},"modified":"2022-02-16T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:46:52","slug":"increasing-the-number-of-diksa-gurus-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=96730","title":{"rendered":"Increasing the Number of Diksa-gurus \u2013 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/e8SDMMx.jpeg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_Easat113Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>702.02: Diksa-gurus [Title] &#8211; Increasing the Number of Diksa-gurus &#8211; 2021<\/p>\n[Meeting] &#8211; Online AGM (passed on July 29, 2021) [Category] &#8211; Statement <\/p>\n<p>Whereas connection via diksa to the parampara is essential for anyone aspiring to advance in Krishna consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas ISKCON needs a sufficient number of initiated devotees to perform many essential services, which can only be performed by properly initiated devotees<\/p>\n<p>Whereas ISKCON still has a similar number of diksa-gurus as at the end of the 1980s (+\/- 80), while the number of aspiring devotees in ISKCON has increased at least fiftyfold or more since then; thus an acute lack of diksa-gurus has become an ever growing problem to facilitate the increased number of persons now engaged in devotional service<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the present generation of diksa-gurus will be drastically reduced within the next decade or so. Thus a new generation of diksa-gurus urgently needs to be established in ISKCON<\/p>\n<p>Whereas ISKCON ?s demography has changed from ashrama living to largely being a movement of congregational devotees centred around communities; there is an increasing need of a more natural and organic diksa-guru culture in line with Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s statement in CC. Adi 1.35 purport: &#8220;Generally a spiritual master who constantly instructs a disciple in spiritual science becomes his initiating spiritual master.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whereas we can observe &#8211; for different reasons &#8211; a clear change in the social culture of the world and therefore cannot take it for granted that smooth travel all over the world will be possible in the future; thus an increasing number of more locally accessible diksa-gurus, each having a moderate number of disciples will be more sustainable and will strengthen our preaching movement as a whole, as well as local preaching projects.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas a considerable number of the local &#8220;spiritual masters who constantly instruct their disciples in spiritual science&#8221; are often not disciples of diksa-gurus who have left this world.<\/p>\n<p>RESOLVED: The GBC hereby states their commitment to increase the number of diksa-gurus in ISKCON by systematically and promptly increasing the number of diksa-gurus before we lose the present gurus. <\/p>\n<p>The GBC also accepts the principle that the number of diksa-gurus must reflect, as closely as possible, the actual size of ISKCON, and that the future system leans to having many local diksa-gurus with fewer disciples, rather than having a limited number of international gurus with many disciples. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the GBC members will support and promote prominent siksa-gurus initiating while their diksa-gurus are present.<\/p>\n<p>The GBC will support programs that facilitate more diksa-gurus while the present diksa-gurus are with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4Qo0o94.jpeg \"\/><strong>By the GBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RESOLVED: The GBC hereby states their commitment to increase the number of diksa-gurus in ISKCON by systematically and promptly increasing the number of diksa-gurus before we lose the present gurus. The GBC also accepts the principle that the number of diksa-gurus must reflect, as closely as possible, the actual size of ISKCON, and that the future system leans to having many local diksa-gurus with fewer disciples, rather than having a limited number of international gurus with many disciples. Furthermore, the GBC members will support and promote prominent siksa-gurus initiating while their diksa-gurus are present.   <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96730","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=96730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96737,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96730\/revisions\/96737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}