GHQ: Do women get a varna on their own?

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> However, if we take varna to mean "vocation" then a woman usually adopts

> the varna of her husband after marriage, at least in vedic culture. When

> Devayani, a Brahmani by descent, married Yayati, she became queen and thus

> a kshatriya. In Vedic culture, the wife always assists the husband in his

> occupational duties and in that sense she generally adopts the varna of

> the husband.

>

This is an example of a person acting in the mode of goodness adopting the

activities in the mode of passion. This is not a problem for me, because

usually those who are capable of doing more qualified things easily can do

also the things that one needs a less qualification for. What I really

wonder about is if a woman by nature was performing activities in the mode

of ignorance and then she gets married to a man who is acting in the mode of

goodness, how is it that automatically she starts to act in the mode of

goodness? She might be assistant, but she would still be very much under the

influence of the mode of ignorance, although by assisting her husband she

would elevate herself to a some degree. That's why those kind of marriages

are not very desired, because it will cause a disturbance in a relationship.

If a man wants to have everything in time, clean, get up early etc. and a

woman doesn't like to keep clean, likes to sleep long and is lousy in

performing her duties, that's going to be a problem.

And I haven't seen examples in the practical life of this, that a women by

getting married develops good qualities of her better half. I have seen the

oposite: partners keep their qualities and if they are very much different

the marriage ends up in a divorse.

Ys. Sraddha dd