Do women get a varna on their own?

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> "Prabhupada: ...So if the man is first-class, the woman is first-class. If

> the man is second-class, the woman is second-class. If the man is

> third-class, the woman is third -class....Because woman is meant for

> assisting man, so the woman becomes suitable according to the man, her

> husband." (Chicago, July 9, 1975)

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This quote doesn't prove anything that a womans varna is determend by

husband's. Rather the system is that one always makes arrangments that

people of the same varna get married. Brahmana boy gets married to a

brahmani girl, or a girl from brahmana family, ksatriya marries a ksatriya

girl etc. This arrangment is done beforehand by the parents. This system is

still very much strong in India. There are thousands of castes and when a

marriage is arranged it is always that persons from the same caste get

married.

In the rare cases this rule is broken and then we have examples of

pratiloma and anuloma marriages.

It is important to understand this, otherwise if you think that a girl

automatically gets a varna of her husband you will end up with anuloma and

pratiloma marriages which are not desirable. This kind of marriages are not

desirable, because the varna is geting lost. By mixing varnas we don't get

that qualified children like from marriages of people which belong to the

same varna.

Varna is kept by education, training, and by breeding (arranging of proper

marriages). In the kali-yuga varnasrama system is lost and we are all

comming from the families with completely mixt-up background. Therefore we

are all born as sudras (actually, less than sudra) but by education and

training we can elevate ourselves. That's why Srila Prabhupada wonted those

varnasrama-colleges, to train varna. Besides that it is important that

people of like qualities get married, and in that way gradually we can get

to the point of having dinasties of different varnas. Now we are at the

point that everybody comes from the mixt-up background and there is no real

training to develop certain varna.

Ys. Sraddha dd