lower birth

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Hemant Agarwal asked in Digest Number 781:

 

> What are the reasons to consider women of lower birth?

>

> There is not much difference between kshatriyas and vaisyas with respect

> to spiritual progress.why Sri Krishna mentioned one, but not other?

>

 

Here are two quotes from Srila Prabhupada that give some insight into topics

that could be examined in great detail.

 

women, sudras (the laborer class) and the dvija-bandhus, or the wretched

descendants of the higher three classes, are unfit by intelligence to

understand transcendental subject matter concerning the spiritual name,

fame, attributes, forms, etc., of the Supreme Absolute Truth.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.8.22

 

Brahmana means the intellectual class of men who knows hygienic rules, keeps

himself always purified and engaged in studying Vedic literatures for

understanding this world, God, himself, the interrelation. They are called

brahmana. And the ksatriya means those who live their life under the

instruction of the brahmana but they are engaged in administration of the

state, they are called ksatriyas. Then vaisyas, still less intelligent

class. The brahmana is the first intelligent class of men, the ksatriyas,

the next intelligent class of men, and the vaisyas, or the mercantile class

of men interested in money by trade, commerce, agriculture, industry, they

are called vaisyas.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Deity Installation and Initiation -- Melbourne, April

6, 1972