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>HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

 

> I've never recommended any woman to leave her husband but always to remain

> humble and meek and win his heart. By being a better person thru Krishna

> consciousness she can gradually bring him around. It actually works in

> most cases. I don't have the letter you ask for but if the lady you are

> referring to is one in Russia, she is now initiated. Her husband changed.

 

Just in support of Maharaja's point:

 

The following text is an excerpt from a transcript of a taped talk that took

place in March-April 1980 shortly after the passing of Srila Prabhupada's

sister Bhavatarini Dasi aka Pisima. It was originally posted on PAMHO by

HG Syamasundara prabhu.

 

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[narrated by Bhavananda Maharaja]

 

There's another story about her purity. When she was—Prabhupada told me the

story—when she was married, her husband turned out to be a rogue. A

debauchee. Of sorts. Woman-hunter, and so many things. And the whole time,

she would keep coming to Srila Prabhupada, and... “What to do, how we can

stop him from his sinful life?”

 

So Prabhupada said, “Remember those deities that we worshiped when we were

children?” He said, “I have them here, I'll give them to... You worship

Them, Radha-Govinda, and you keep praying to Them, and They’ll help you.” So

Prabhupada said that she took those Deities, and she worshiped Them very

nicely, and she never... even though her husband was a rogue of sorts, she

never deviated from the principles of Krsna consciousness. Nor did she ever

leave her husband. Even though he was a rogue... especially... uh, though

maybe his habits were not—don’t appear so terrible by today’s standards—but

from their standard he was a rogue. She never deviated from the principles

of Krsna consciousness, Prabhupada said, and she never left her husband. She

kept serving him and praying to Radha-Govinda, “Please, You save him.” And

Prabhupada said the result was that her husband, after so many years, he

changed all his ways, he became a devotee and he ended up worshiping her.

(Audience: “Jaya!”)