Bhakti Vikasa Swami (left) is one of the almost 5,000 disciples who were initiated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (right), the founder-acarya of ISKCON

Gaudiya Matha and Householders

Posted on December 4, 2012  
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Question:

I have been speaking w various devotees about the standard for grhasthas regarding initiation. I am sure you saw my post on the sannyasa conference. One devotee wrote back to me the following:



An afterthought: It strikes me that in the Gaudiya Math during Bhaktisiddhanta's time, the math was strictly a place for brahmacaris and sannyasis. My guess: The presupposition seems to have been that householders were/are more clearly separated from the renunciants because of their marital engagements, including especially sexuality, which I don't know that Bhaktisiddhanta specified must be for procreation only among householder disciples (would be interesting to know if there is any info on this).

 
Do you have any info on the above?

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