Guest guest Posted May 25, 1998 Report Share Posted May 25, 1998 > >The sastra is interested in encouraging good sons and thus offers > >the incentive to the parents of deliverance from hell due to a good > >son doing the sraddha sacrifice. There is no sastric injunction > >for a girl to do that. At least none that I know of. > > >If the daughter becomes a great devotee, then she can deliver all > >people, what to speak of her parents. > > > Dear Sri Visnupada > > Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > Sraddha sacrifice, is that something we do in ISKCON? > Yes, we do that at the time of death of a devotee. Please contact some learned brahmana for details. Actually, the offering of sraddha patra is something that is part of our spiritual culture and not only of VAD. > Or something that will be introduced along the line of varnasrama > development? > > I mean to say, why do we - in ISKCON - stress having boys as more > auspicious than having girls ? > Maybe it has something to do with our culture and sastra? I don't know. It is too complicated a question and I am just a neophyte in these things, especially when you insist on adding receivers to my answers. > Especially considering that, as you say ..."she can deliver all > people".. and also considering our mission being a "delivering" > mission. > > Your servant Trayimaya dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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