The truth counts...

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>> If you or anyone else *really* wants to know the truth, then you had

>> better ***care what Prabhupada says or didn't say*** because he is the

>> pure representative of Krsna. Haven't you realized that yet?

>>

> Having obtained "real knowledge" from a self-realized soul, you will never

>again fall into such illusion, for "by this knowledge" you will see that all

>living beings are but part of the Supreme, or, in other words, that they are

>Mine.

> Sri Krsna in the Bhagava-gita 4.35

>

>So is "real knowledge" which needs to be obtained for the purpose of

>realizing the Supreme and our constitutional position in relation to Him,

>the knowledge that:

>

> Prabhupada says women cannot take sannyasa?

> Prabhupada says that women cannot attend Varnasrama College?

> Prabhupada says that "girls" gurukula is a concoction?

> Prabhupada says that women are like fire and men like butter?

> Prabhupada say that "there is a difference between male and female that

>exists even in the higher statuses of life-in fact, even between Lord Siva

>and his wife?"

> Prabhupada says that women should not be in Vrndavana?

> Prabhupada says that women should not be given freedom or independence?

> Prabhupada says that women are less intelligent?

> Prabhupada says that the Aryan civilization is being insulted by having a

>female as its chief executive?

> Prabhupada says that "it is most regrettable when a woman becomes the

>executive head instead of a lionlike king."

> Prabhupada says that women cannot have equal rights?

> Prabhupada says that the brain size of woman is smaller than that of a man

>therefore the woman are less inteligent than man.

> Prabhupada says that woman without husband are like prostitutes,

> or whatever he may have said about such material or social matters.

>

> He said also in the purport to the above verse:

>

>"Perfect knowledge, received from the Supreme Personaliy of Godhead, is the

>path of liberation. The boat of Krsna consciousness is very simple, but at

>the same time the most sublime."

>

>So are all the above mentioned "Prabhupada said,s" perfect knowledge,

>received from the Supreme Personality of Godhead revealed to his pure

>representative devotee in order to show us the path of liberation?

>

>I doubt this.

 

"For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor the

next." (spoken by Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead)

 

>I think that many such statement of Prabhupada are relative truth which may

or >may not be aplicable to the situation or the person or the gender.

 

You are free to think as you like. But I think you're in a very precarious

situation, spiritually speaking.

 

>There are less inteligent woman as there are also less inteligent man, to

>give an example.

 

Srila Prabhupada never said that the most intelligent woman is less

intelligent than the least intelligent man. The fact is that women *as a

class* are less intelligent than men. And how so? Because they are more

prone to "material enjoyment."

 

>A woman without a husband may or may not be like a prostitute etc.

 

In civilized (Vedic) society, if a woman remains independent then her social

classification is prostitute. In other words, she's not a brahmani,

ksatriyani, vaisyani, nor sudrani. She is outside of varnasrama-dharma. SP

called that "prostitute." I accept that teaching of SP's as if Sri Krsna

Himself has given it.

 

>Am I offending Srila Prabhupada by saying this?

>I hope not.

 

I'll let Krsna be the judge of that.

 

ys,

gkdas