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Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The 2024 GBC AGM Resolutions have been released at the below link:

https://gbc.iskcon.org/gbc-resolutions/

Please click the bottom link for 2024.

The GBC will continue to meet online during the year and will process other
proposals that were not able to be covered during the AGM. These will also
be published in due course.

Hare Krishna.

Your servant,

Ananda Tirtha Das
(GBC Corresponding Secretary)

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By Ananda Tirtha Das 

The *2022* GBC Resolutions have finally been released. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic, the GBC Body couldn’t conduct in-person meetings, and therefore the 2022 AGM (Annual General Meeting) was conducted online. Thankfully, the 2023 AGM, however, began as a regular in-person meeting in Mayapur and will continue online in the upcoming months.

The GBC met online weekly throughout 2022 (and continues to do so in 2023) to discuss matters of global importance and vote

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

One resolution was inadvertently not included in the 2021 GBC Resolution file. This has now been corrected:

https://gbc.iskcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2021GBCRES.pdf

The title of the missing resolution is “Increasing the Number of Diksa-gurus” and is on page 25.

My apologies for the omission.

Your servant,

Ananda Tirtha das (GBC Corresponding Secretary)

Source: http://www.dandavats.com/?p=96713

Section 700: Gurus and Disciples

701.2 ISKCON Spiritual Masters Conditions for Second-generation Diksa-gurus — 2019 [Governing law]

Whereas ISKCON Law 7.3.2 now reads: “As taught by Srila Prabhupada, the etiquette of not initiating in the presence of one’s diksa-guru will be upheld in ISKCON. However, Srila Prabhupada and historical precedents also teach us that disciples may sometimes initiate in the physical presence of their diksa-gurus, if so directed by them. In such a case, the disciple s