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> > > "...However great a woman may be, she must be ready to carry out her

> > > husband's orders and please him in all circumstances. Then her life

> > > will be successful." (SB 9.3.10P)

> >

> > One does not exclude the other I guess....again a quite relative

> > statement.

>

> You may take it as such--that is your prerogative as a free spirit. But I

> take Srila Prabhupada's own statements--for example, that every word in

> his books was chosen very carefully because "It is document," and that

> Krsna would personally come and dictate purports to him, etc.--as the

> highest truth. On that basis, when Srila Prabhupada says, "However great a

> woman may be, she must be ready to carry out her husband's orders and

> please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful" I take

> that as perfect instruction for the kala-patra-desa in which we now happen

> to live.

 

It seems you did not catch my point, Prabhupada is saying "However great a

woman may be" (No statement that a woman can be nothing else than a servant

of her husband) no she can be a great woman, but still she must be ready to

carry out her husband's orders (out of religious duty and etichete and

please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful." (SB

9.3.10P)

 

So she may please her husband and still be a great woman (by varna

qualification) - relative truth.

 

> I don't mind if others may take me to be a brainwashed cult member because

> I believe wholly and solely in such statements as the above. They can go

> to hell... or heaven!--as the case may be--and I may go wherever my blind

> faith in such statements will take me.

>

> --gkd

 

Its a matter of understanding I guess, I may be also wrong in my

understanding of what Prabhupada is saying.

 

Harsi das