Something vedic about ISKCON?

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Sraddha dd. wrote on 4.12.99

 

> When we try to artificially introduce some kind of "vedic" role model we

> end up with kind of Vrindavan case of men and women fighting in front of

> the altar. There is nothing vedic about men standing in front and women

> behind, there is nothing vedic about brahmacaris and women living together

> in the same temple, there is nothing vedic about ISKCON. Those kind of

> things didn't exist in the vedic times. There is nothing indian about men

> standing in front and women standing behind, there is nothing indian about

> brahmacaris and women living together in the same temple, there is nothing

> indian about brahmacaris and women fighting in front of the altar. Such

> things don't exist in India, except in ISKCON.

 

Sometimes I really ask myself if Prabhupada wanted to introduce the culture

of renunciation of material things why he didn,t start monasterys and many

temples in India where real brahmacaris and sanyasis are residing are a kind

of monasteries, where those who wanted to follow this path could do it

without mixing with the oposite sex. The way he chose to organise things in

ISKCON are more a kind of mixing two cultures to fit the needs of the

individuels, indeed nothing vedic, or like Abhirama prabhu whould say

"having a vedic perspective." But what is vedic anyway, the other day I was

reading for example that the culture of the woman wearing saris was

introduced by the muslims in India, so another conception of something being

vedic gone.

 

Ys,

Harsi das