The truth counts...

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> 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. 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.

There are less inteligent woman as there are also less inteligent man, to

give an example.

A woman without a husband may or may not be like a prostitute etc.

 

Am I offending Srila Prabhupada by saying this?

 

I hope not.

 

ys, Harsi das