beatting women - is beatting all wrong?

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

 

> To suggest that woman and child beating is or was casually accepted in

> India is extremely far from the truth. It is only drunken slum dwellers in

> India who indulge in beating, and they get back as good as they give. Any

> cultured Indian family would find it horrifying, even 3 generations ago

> (which is teh extent of my first hand experience) if anyone said that it

> was ok for a husband to beat his wife. (Of couse I am not talking about

> the unclutured ones who exist in every culture).

 

You are not really helping the fact, that Mother Yasoda was binding Krsna

with ropes, that Jagannatha Misra was stopped physically just before hitting

Nimai and that mother of Srila Prabhupada said that her daughter's husband

can beat his wife now if needed. We do not want to connect those isolated,

but factual, descriptions from Guru, sadhu and sastra, with some "drunken

slum dwellers", "indulging in beating", "geting back as good as they give",

"horrifying for cultured human" and "uncultured ones", is it?

 

There must be some difference, that's the point. I'm curious to understand

this. One beating seems to be different from another. It is a fact that

beating, as act of violence and anger, is abominable. But can it be

possible, that there is some beating, that is not only present even in

highly cultured circles, but is even considered beneficial and protective?

And comes out of duty to protect nad educate, and is free of

after-frustration-anger and envy? Because, if all beating is horrible, and

is to be condemned and is a sign of low class personality deeply in lower

modes of nature, why is it described even in cultural shastric descriptions,

and thus relished by great sages and vaisnavas.

 

We are required to learn how to act properly, especially grhasthas with

children, if we want some proper social development in the future. And

westernisation is not helping much in this regard. Is it possible, that

there is more for us to understand about intricate social interactions? And

is it possible, that we are mistaken my denying any thought of beating as

horrible and uncultured?

 

Just a thought.

 

your servant Giri-nayaka das