Can a Woman be Brahmana without a Brahmana husband?

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> By his practical example, our Founder/Acarya demonstrated that it a woman

> can become a brahmana without a brahmana father or husband.

 

 

I think he proved that a woman can become "brahminical" not necessarily a

brahmana by varna title. This would mean that the woman was by nature

influenced by the modes of goodness as a result of her past lifes karma.

 

 

> When Srila Prabhupada says that the woman has the same varna as her

> husband, that should be taken as a general principle and not an absolute

> to cover every single circumstance, because Srila Prabhupada himself

> demonstrated repeatedly that a woman could become a brahmana without a

> brahmana husband.

 

 

With due respect and honesty this just does not sound fully accurate.

Prabhupda demonstrated that women can attain brahminical qualities but this

again I think anyway is different than being a "brahmana" by title. I am not

wanting to withhold any honorific for which a woman is rightly due but in

regards to how a Vedic culture would train and exemplify womens roles we

must look at the way they did it throughout the scriptures.

 

Is there any guru in the scriptures who has recommended women become

anything other than Vaisnava wives and mothers? Whether we are there now or

not our future training must be in line with this if we are truly interested

in preserving the Vedic cultural standards.

 

Its not like we are trying to hurt women are we? Is the Vedic culture

denying women anything? Do we fully trust and believe in the Vedic culture?

 

I am not a Vedic ksatriya, but I would not want to be trained in any other

way because I know my nature according to the Vedic knowledge. I would only

be cheating myself if I denied it and claimed to be a big brahmana or

something else I am not. On a material basis the body I received due to my

karma is "inferior" for certain material facilities like a brahmanas

peacefulness and happiness. I can fully admit this and accept it.

 

But the body I have is EQUALLY capable of becoming a Vaisnava pure devotee

as that of the brahmana. This is all I really care about. The same, I feel,

goes for the womens bodies.

 

For some reason Sri Caitanya did not allow his devotees with womens bodies

to approach close to Him. He showed by example that there is "bodily

discrimination" that must be respected by even the greatest personalities.

He also did not allow people like me to approach close to Him because of the

bodily things ksatriyas have to be involved with. I accept this fully. I

would gladly line up BEHIND the devotee women to offer my obeisances to the

Lord from a distance. He is still very close to me in my heart and I KNOW

that. But I still want to be honest with myself in order that I am training

myself properly to become purified so I can one day become a hair on the

butt of one of the horses of Sri Arjunas chariot on the battlefield of

Kurukshetra so I can see Krsna and Arjuna talking and fighting. I do not

care if I am a ksatriya, brahmana, sudra, woman, or candala. But whichever I

am by my own karma let me receive the proper training to become a pure

devotee of the Lord and do not let me pretend to be something else and waste

an entire birth.

 

Respectfully,

 

Janesvara dasa