Women sannyasis

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Kardama Muni followed the Vedic injunction that no one in sannyasa life can

have

any kind of relationship with women. But what is the position of a woman who is

left by her husband? She is entrusted to the son, and the son promises that he

will deliver his mother from entanglement. A woman is not supposed to take

sannyasa. So-called spiritual societies concocted in modern times give sannyasa

even to women, although there is no sanction in the Vedic literature for a

woman's accepting sannyasa. Otherwise, if it were sanctioned, Kardama Muni

could

have taken his wife and given her sannyasa. The woman must remain at home. She

has only three stages of life: dependency on the father in childhood,

dependency

on the husband in youth and, in old age, dependency on the grown-up son, such

as

Kapila. In old age the progress of woman depends on the grown-up son. The ideal

son, Kapila Muni, is assuring His father of the deliverance of His mother so

that His father may go peacefully without anxiety for his good wife.

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.24.40

 

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