Marriage without children

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Hare Krishna Basu Ghosh Prabhu, _/\o_

 

> > Never heard such thing, nor found is in Vedabase. What is the

> > source? Prabhupada often quoted "putr€rthe kriyate bh€ry€

> > putra-piŠa- prayojanam." On the level of dharma one gets married

> > to get a son who offers pinda to prevent father's residence in

> > hell.

 

> You have answered the question, denying it's importance, Bhakta Jan.

 

If that's what you perceive, then it was unintentional. I simply

queried the Vedabase for words "children", "marriage", "abominable"

and "bad" to get the exact quote but without success.

 

I know that people in India still follow dharma to a large extent and

this topic is important for them. At the same time in the common

"Hinduism" there are later additions from Muslims and others and

Prabhupada criticized it on these grounds.

 

> We are followers of Vedic culture, although I'm sure there are a

> great number of "western" devotees who are not fully aware of that!

 

> And... you didn't do a thorough search of the database, as you'll

> see from just some of the quotes that I found, below.

 

Such quotes I found during my search and summarized them in my

2-sentence answer clarifying that it pertains to the dharma-level

(like e.g. Canakya's maxims), not necessarily para-dharma (KC). And

subsequent quotes from Prabhupada's correspondence with Satsvarupa M.

(text #8124661) show that Prabhupada preferred para-dharma approach,

at least in his case.

 

I hope this clarifies my former text and doesn't offend anyone.

 

Your servant, bh. Jan

 

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