no ksatriya in India today

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> Many years ago I heard it said that Srila Prabhupada had said that Indira

> Gandhi being PM of India indicated that there was no real ksatriya left in

> India, for had there been they could not have tolerated to be ruled by a

> woman. Can anyone confirm, clarify, or deny this?

 

You might find this helpful, especially the last two paragraphs:

 

TD1 September 6, 1976 -- Vrindavana

 

Referring to the Indian government's program of enforced sterilization being

imposed on the general population, Prabhupada said, "Now they're making

propaganda for sterilization. And if we advise make a brahmacari-asrama from

the beginning, they will not take. 'What is this nonsense, brahmacari?'"

Aksayananda wondered why they reject the idea. "Is it because they cannot do

it?"

Prabhupada said they can do it if they want. 'Just like by training you have

given up so many things. You were accustomed to this illicit sex and

meat-eating, but you have given up. But why? By training. So if we request

the government, 'Let us open this brahmacari ...' They'll not help. But

they'll make the other propaganda; they'll make contraceptive method. And

naturally one Hindu widow is trained up not to marry again. Once she got a

husband, that's all right. Now you convert your, you divert your attention

to Krsna. They'll make propaganda. 'Why stop her sense gratification? Let

her marry again, widow marriage.' Why widow marriage? If there is

voluntarily giving up begetting any more child, to avoid husband, why the

widow marriage bill is introduced?

"Everything was natural, brahmacari. The sterilization is already there.

That will not be accepted. Widow, she's remaining refrained from. Just like

we have now asked our girls not to dress attractively, widow. They should

dress not attractively. Because after all, what is this sex enjoyment? It is

not very good thing. By outward attraction they attract. Nice sari, nice

face powder -- one becomes attracted. Therefore this is psychology, that if

the woman does not dress very nicely, she will not be attractive.

Unnecessarily attraction she will avoid. But a woman is naturally, her

psychology is dress very nicely so that man may be attracted, because they

want shelter. This is the whole psychology. They, although they declare

independence, they cannot live independently, that is not possible.

Therefore they are by nature accustomed to dress attractively so that one

may accept her and give her shelter. This is psychology. Otherwise, why the

woman are naturally inclined to dress herself nice? Man does not. This is

the psychology. A boy, sixteen-years-old boy, he does not, he is roughly

dressed. But a sixteen-year-old girl will never remain roughly. She'll

always try to decorate herself very nicely and utilize her youthful beauty

for attracting. Why attracting? Because she wants shelter. Therefore it is

the duty of the father and mother that she is young girl, she wants shelter,

and out of passion, lusty desires, her selection may be wrong. So before she

selects out of her own way, 'Let me, it is my duty, I am guardian. Give her

some good shelter.' This is Hindu process."

Aksayananda said that although it was perfectly natural, "They will say

restricting, unnatural."

"They may say," Prabhupada said. "But this is natural psychology. Father,

mother, they know, the well-wisher of the children. Now everything is

spoiled. But we don't care for this. We say take to Krsna consciousness,

everything will be adjusted."

We continued discussing the sterilization program and Aksayananda asked if

when they perform the operation, it spoils their intelligence. "Because as I

have read, if the semina can go to the brain, then there can be some

intelligence, if even a little could go. Is it by sterilization no more can

go to the brain? So they have become oxen. They've become like the oxen."

Prabhupada nodded. "Nowadays boys are dull. Why dull?"

"So dull in India," Aksayananda said.

"Everywhere," Prabhupada observed. "Because they discharge semina like

anything. Must be dull. There is a word, uddhareta. Reta means semina. One

who has learned how to divert the movement of the semina to the brain,

uddhareta, greatest yogis. By yogic power they can do that, instead of

discharging, going down."

Aksayananda, formerly a married man with two children who has been a

sannyasi since 1972, lamented the unfortunate position of the victims. "So

if they become sterilized then there's no more possibility for the semina to

go up. Never again. Nothing can go to the brain. Therefore their brain is

finished for life."

Srila Prabhupada wasn't entirely blaming the government however. Recently

reports have come in that all the babajis in the greater Vrndavana district,

including Govardhana and Radha-kunda, have been taken by the busload and

sterilized. just like this babaji has been sterilized, because the

government knows, even the so-called sadhus and babajis, they are using

their sex. It is open secret. Because so many women go to hospitals,

American hospitals. The hospital men, they do not take it serious, 'It is

natural, a man and woman.' But it is strictly forbidden according to

spiritual life."

Aksayananda said that he knew a doctor, one of our life members, who was now

required by the government to perform a certain number of sterilizations per

day or else he does not get paid. According to the newspapers, in just one

state 70,000 women and 36,000 men have been forcibly operated on. And the

law is that if a couple has three children, they must be sterilized.

Aksayananda Maharaja commented that this is a real sign of Kali-yuga's

progression. "A woman is in charge and she is castrating all the men-making

them brainless like the oxen." He felt that because of this situation, our

preaching in India must be very tactful.

But Prabhupada saw it all as an opportunity to increase our preaching. "No,

just like I was speaking from Bhagavatam. If you speak only on the subject

matter as it is mentioned in the books, it is already tactful." Quoting this

morning's verse again he said, "Now they are in a position of

soka-moha-bhaya. So you take to Krsna consciousness. This is the best best

tact, now it is the time, now they are put into soka-moha-bhaya. It is

already there going on, soka-moha-bhaya. But it is now special time for

soka-moha-bhaya. So you have to take it. It may be out of fear, bhaya, they

may take to Krsna consciousness."

 

Your humble servant,

Hari-sauri dasa