beatting women

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> > For the same reason it would be OK to beat (ordinary) sudras.

 

> Well I have seen at Kumbha Mela and other such events, the only way to

> manage the crowd is the police waving sticks as ninety percent are simple

> villagers (who are also mentioned in the original verse along with

> sudras). Mostly I see them waving their sticks but hardly ever beating,

> and I haven't seen any other succesful method to keep order under those

> circumstances, except the barricades that they put up everywhere to keep

> everyone in line, that also happen to be made of sticks.

 

That was my point. I don't feel particularly inspired to search for it right

now, but Prabhupada says somewhere in the Bhagavatam that for some, the only

way to learn is to be beaten. Of course, people don't like to read or hear

these things, but that doesn't make them any less true.

 

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