women on sankirtan

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"COM: Sraddha (dd) HKS (Gothenburg - S)" wrote:

 

> Brahmanas in Vedic society were householders and all

> ksatriyas were householders, becuase there is no such thing like sannyas for

> ksatriyas. Ksatriyas are definitely the leaders, otherwise were do you want

> to put Maharaj Pariksit, Arjuna, Yudhisthir, Bharata etc.? Besides that,

> society is made basicly of householders. You don't even find many examples in

 

> the scriptures of sannyasis. You would rather find sages living in the

> forest.

> Managing of society is the business of ksatriyas, and brahmanas are supposed

> to educate ksatriyas. It is the dharma of ksatriyas to organise society and

> make

> arrangements that the weaker parts of society (children, women and alders)

> are not abused by unscrupulous men...

> Or, if men are not doing anything for

> protecting the women and children, at least they shouldn't (in the name of

> chastity of women) try to stop women when they are trying to protect

> themselves, because, after all, all this uproar might be just because women

> want to be chaste and want to protect their children.

 

Haribol! I was waiting for a long time for this text. That is the real point.

How

can you expect the GBC´s, with are mainly sannyasis, to fully protect the

female

devotees? They have no real idea or experience, how to do that.

 

I am now speaking from a metaphysical point of view. As long as you have

sannyasis in the GBC, you MUST have women in the GBC for a balance of

male and female energies. The GOVERNING BODY COMMISION is the

management body of ISKCON, even if you declare them as brahmins.

It is absolutly true. The best would be, when you only have householders in the

 

GBC or management. Then you would not need any female devotees in the GBC,

because those GBC-man, which have a nice female (influencial) devotee in the

back,

are automaticaly also concerned about the protection of woman and children in

an

(for woman) appropiate and right perspective.

 

So in this you can even see the (PRO) vedic logic, why all sociely work was

done

by brahminical and ksatriya man householders.

 

If you just take one part of vedic understanding (no woman in leadership), but

the

other part (no sannyasis in leadership) you neglect, then there will be always

a

misbalance in society.So as you see, our society has a long way to go.

 

y.s. Stoka Krsna dasa