women on sankirtan

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> Srila Prabhupada's system is that women on sankirtan, even "unmarried

> girls (no father, no husband, no sons)", are accompanied by the grhastha

> men, not that they are sent out on the streets alone. This is Srila

> Prabhupada's merciful way of giving some engagement to the female

> devotees.

 

First, what business does grihasthas have to deal with women they are not

married to? I have seen many such instances, and it invariably ends up with

the grihastha beeing an ersatz husband to the brahmacarins, or even

married women.

 

Second, if you think the women are not sent out alone, you probably have

not had any contact with the sankirtan tactics. The women are sent out

alone, with the "protecting" grihastha most of the time doing "management",

from his office in the temple.

 

Third, when the women are worn out physically and psychologically from

the distribution, they are just considered "maya" cases, and just showed

aside as useless, and finally thrown out of the temple. Especially if they

managed to do the "sin" of finding themselves a husband.

 

Often it takes years for such used women to recover

and become "normal" women again. I have seen more than one of those abused

cases, and what happens with them after sankirtan is finished.