Attack On VAD is Due to Rascal Men and Unqualified Brahmanas

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(Beginning of Quoted Text)

 

araksyamanah striya urvi balan

socasy atho purusadair ivartan

vacam devim brahma-kule kukarmany

abrahmanye raja-kule kulagryan

 

SYNONYMS

 

araksyamanah -- unprotected; striyah -- women; urvi -- on the earth; balan --

children; socasi -- you are feeling compassion; atho -- as such;

purusa-adaih -- by men; iva -- like that; artan -- those who are unhappy;

vacam -- vocabulary; devim -- the goddess; brahma-kule -- in the family of the

brahmana; kukarmani -- acts against the principles of religion; abrahmanye --

persons against the brahminical culture; raja-kule -- in the administrative

family; kula-agryan -- most of all the families (the brahmanas).

 

TRANSLATION

 

Are you feeling compunction for the unhappy women and children who are left

forlorn by unscrupulous persons? Or are you unhappy because the goddess of

learning is being handled by brahmanas addicted to acts against the principles

of religion? Or are you sorry to see that the brahmanas have taken shelter of

administrative families that do not respect brahminical culture?

 

PURPORT

 

In the age of Kali, the women and the children, along with brahmanas and cows,

will be grossly neglected and left unprotected. In this age illicit connection

with women will render many women and children uncared for. Circumstantially,

the women will try to become independent of the protection of men, and

marriage will be performed as a matter of formal agreement between man and

woman. In most cases, the children will not be taken care of properly. The

brahmanas are traditionally intelligent men, and thus they will be able to

pick up modern education to the topmost rank, but as far as moral and

religious principles are concerned, they shall be the most fallen. Education

and bad character go ill together, but such things will run parallel. The

administrative heads as a class will condemn the tenets of Vedic wisdom and

will prefer to conduct a so-called secular state, and the so-called educated

brahmanas will be purchased by such unscrupulous administrators. Even a

philosopher and writer of many books on religious principles may also accept

an exalted post in a government which denies all the moral codes of the

sastras. The brahmanas are specifically restricted from accepting such

service. But in this age they will not only accept service, but they will do

so even if it is of the meanest quality. These are some of the symptoms of the

Kali age which are harmful to the general welfare of human society.

 

SB 1.16.22

 

(End of quoted text)

 

We shouldn't blame the women, Guru-Krishna. They're not the problem. We are.

It is specifically stated here that due to the circumstance of being exploited

and neglected, women try to become independent. The burden of responsibility

falls upon the shoulders of the men. What is the world coming to if the men,

who have failed in their duties, declare that the fault lies with the ones

they are supposed to protect - e.g., women, children, and brahmanas? What does

it mean if the brahmanas, who should seek to correct the character of the

errant men of society who are doing this damage, instead turn their criticisms

solely against the women?

 

Personally, I think it better for us to concentrate on our fellow men when it

comes to the question of reform. When women see that the men are truly their

protectors, instead of their exploiters, abusers, offenders, etc., there will

be no more so-called disturbance from ‘feminism' and other things.

 

Your servant,

 

Pancha Tattva dasa

 

 

 

On 20 Dec 1998, Guru-Krsna Dasa wrote:

 

> "When God-made *varnasrama-dharma*, which is strictly meant for

> developing animal consciousness into human consciousness and human

> consciousness into godly consciousness, is broken by advancement of

> foolishness, the whole system of peaceful and progressive life is at

> once disturbed. In the age of Kali, the first attack of the venomous

> snake strikes against the God-made *varnasrma-dharma*, and thus a

> person properly qualified as a *brahmana* is called a *sudra*, and a

> *sudra* by qualification is passing as a *brahmana*, all on a false

> birthright claim....(SB 1.16.31 Purport)

>

> ys,

> GKd

>