it is so good to look upon all woman as mother

[Guest guest]

....my Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada. He was

brahmacari. He was brahmacari, strict brahmacari, ideal personality. So that

is recommended for everyone. Up to twenty-five years' age, nobody should

have any connection with woman. That is brahmacari. Strictly. That

brahmacari rules and regulation are there in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that he

would go door to door for collecting alms for his spiritual master, and

address every woman as mother, from the very beginning. From five years old,

if a child is trained to call all woman as "Mother," naturally his culture

is different. Because he has learned to call all woman as "Mother." He has

no other idea. A small child, any woman comes before him, he knows "(S)He is

my mother." So this was the practice. That is not only religiously, but

morally, it is so good, to look upon all woman as mother. That is the system

still in India, any unknown woman who has no introduction with you, (s)he is

addressed "Mataji." Address her. She may be just like daughter or

granddaughter, but one would address, as a respect to the woman, as "Mother,

Mataji." This is Indian system. Now some rascals have introduced "Bhaginiji,

sister." But that is not shastric. In the sastra, all the woman, except

one's wife, should be addressed as "Mother."

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.10 -- Los Angeles, January 7,

1974