Guest guest Posted December 8, 1999 Report Share Posted December 8, 1999 Sraddha dd wrote: The product of the western > society is a different kind of women and men. Here in the west nobody gets > disturbed if a woman is managing, or she is unmaried, or God knows what. > The other thing is that in every society there are different kods of > behaviour, and each country has something of its own. But we are living in > ISKCON which is mixture of people from all kinds of countries and cultures. Mataji: Hare Krsna, pamho, agtSP: Srila Prabhupada never intend to transform the philosophy according to western needs, and you have also to consider that ISKCON is not a western movement, there are lots of India's people devotees. Let the materialists operate in their own way, but we have got Vaisnavism stand and we should train the general public to accept it and come up to our platform of process of doing things, not that we should reduce to their standard. ============ REF. Letter to: Mahatma -- Sydney 10 April, 1972 If you believe that we have to adjust SP's philosophy to western needs you are in a big mistake, I couldn't find a SP quotes where he explain that we have to change our western ideal of life to Vedic form of life otherwise we'll fail. Can someone help me with it? Women in leading positions is normal in the > west, it's even present in India nowdays. Again mataji, please remember that we have to follow Srila Prabhupada's instruction and he advise us to adopt Vedic standart of life. I think that it would help just if > we could accept that we are different. Different? you still want to stay as a western? or you want to go Back to Godhead? In the spiritual world there is not such a thing as you pretend to introduce That's the way to experience and give > love to others, no expectations, accept them for what they are. So if we have to accept them as they are, why do we have to learn for regs, to chant 16 rounds daily, to take shower 3 times a day, to be vegetarian, etc. etc. etc.? We have to elevate us to the spiritual platform and we cann't pretend to still stay as we western are. That would > be good for the both parties, and one desn't have to mix the two. Don't get > married a GHQ man to a independent western woman. Doesn't seem like that > that would be a good combination. Please lets try to be serious to improve, eh? your servant, Sridhari devi dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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