Little Mothers

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> But the thing is, we need a whole lot more love and a whole lot more

> caring in our society. And the people who provide that love and that care

> should be given a lot of respect and appreciation. At the risk of getting

> shot down, I think, and I feel that Prabhupada agrees that women *in

> general, perhaps not in every case* should be providing that love and that

> care on a personal level. So let's encourage them from an early age: You

> are providing care. I think you are a good person. I think you are an

> important person. That's what to see a five-year old girl as mother

> means.

 

I think that is a very nice thing, and something severly neglected by most

of

our socity. If we examine the roles given to boys and girls, it is the girls

who are brought up to care for others, and the boys who are brought up

to counquer the world. Those are the two different rolles assigned.

Partly why it is like this is due to the fact that the mother is the one

giving birth, and that girls therefore naturally falls into, and copies

the role of the mother, and thus gets the ideal of becoming mothers

themselves. Boys, on the other hand, sees the difference between

themselves and the mother, and the similarity with the father, and

are more prone to distance themselves from the mother, and thus

caring, and take up the role of the father, which traditionally is

different.

 

This is seen in a very simplistic materialistic way. Actually, the

girls are becoming receptors of the female energy principle,

and the boys of the male energy, which guides their efforts

in a much higher degree than the parent's examples and instructions.

 

Seen in this way, that the women are the caring part of humanity,

it can also easily be understood that if there is a problem with

love and care in society, it can be traced down to some problem

with the situation of the women. That actually the society is dominated

by the male, conquering mode, and not the female caring mode.

 

Looking at the history of ISKCON, there is also no bigger doubt that

the main emphesis is on conquering the world, not on personal

relationships. Personal relationships, and feelings, are often

seen as maya, and undersirable. Women are also seen as maya,

together with whatever actions they might perform, unless they also

agree on world conquering.

 

Please now don't say there are caring men, and conquering women.

Of course there are both. We are not talking about individuals here,

but general principles.

 

-- Prisni