Guest guest Posted December 11, 1999 Report Share Posted December 11, 1999 >> If you or anyone else *really* wants to know the truth, then you had >> better ***care what Prabhupada says or didn't say*** because he is the >> pure representative of Krsna. Haven't you realized that yet? >> > Having obtained "real knowledge" from a self-realized soul, you will never >again fall into such illusion, for "by this knowledge" you will see that all >living beings are but part of the Supreme, or, in other words, that they are >Mine. > Sri Krsna in the Bhagava-gita 4.35 > >So is "real knowledge" which needs to be obtained for the purpose of >realizing the Supreme and our constitutional position in relation to Him, >the knowledge that: > > Prabhupada says women cannot take sannyasa? > Prabhupada says that women cannot attend Varnasrama College? > Prabhupada says that "girls" gurukula is a concoction? > Prabhupada says that women are like fire and men like butter? > Prabhupada say that "there is a difference between male and female that >exists even in the higher statuses of life-in fact, even between Lord Siva >and his wife?" > Prabhupada says that women should not be in Vrndavana? > Prabhupada says that women should not be given freedom or independence? > Prabhupada says that women are less intelligent? > Prabhupada says that the Aryan civilization is being insulted by having a >female as its chief executive? > Prabhupada says that "it is most regrettable when a woman becomes the >executive head instead of a lionlike king." > Prabhupada says that women cannot have equal rights? > Prabhupada says that the brain size of woman is smaller than that of a man >therefore the woman are less inteligent than man. > Prabhupada says that woman without husband are like prostitutes, > or whatever he may have said about such material or social matters. > > He said also in the purport to the above verse: > >"Perfect knowledge, received from the Supreme Personaliy of Godhead, is the >path of liberation. The boat of Krsna consciousness is very simple, but at >the same time the most sublime." > >So are all the above mentioned "Prabhupada said,s" perfect knowledge, >received from the Supreme Personality of Godhead revealed to his pure >representative devotee in order to show us the path of liberation? > >I doubt this. "For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor the next." (spoken by Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead) >I think that many such statement of Prabhupada are relative truth which may or >may not be aplicable to the situation or the person or the gender. You are free to think as you like. But I think you're in a very precarious situation, spiritually speaking. >There are less inteligent woman as there are also less inteligent man, to >give an example. Srila Prabhupada never said that the most intelligent woman is less intelligent than the least intelligent man. The fact is that women *as a class* are less intelligent than men. And how so? Because they are more prone to "material enjoyment." >A woman without a husband may or may not be like a prostitute etc. In civilized (Vedic) society, if a woman remains independent then her social classification is prostitute. In other words, she's not a brahmani, ksatriyani, vaisyani, nor sudrani. She is outside of varnasrama-dharma. SP called that "prostitute." I accept that teaching of SP's as if Sri Krsna Himself has given it. >Am I offending Srila Prabhupada by saying this? >I hope not. I'll let Krsna be the judge of that. ys, gkdas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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