Chastity is a jewel adding more beauty to a woman. It has been Vedic civilization even 50yrs ago in India to not send woman to office jobs where they have to work in the midst of men. It's not that they cannot understand technology or office work but to protect them from being exploited by the unscrupulous men in the society. Chastity is a very powerful tool for women but unfortunately they are not taught or trained so well in that respect. Women are compared to sudras but by her chastity, a great south indian woman, Kannagi has burnt the whole city of Madurai in south India. By definition woman are considered sudras but by her chastity she became even more powerful than the Kshatriya King who ruled over the city of Madurai.
Kannagi has remained faithful to her husband at all times even though the husband had affairs with another woman Madhavi. Kovalan, her husband was put to death by an injustice from the King of Madurai. Knowing this kannagi rushed to the spot in the assembly and then cursed the King saying the entire kingdom will be burnt to ashes and so did it happen. The whole of madurai was burnt by her chastity.
In order for men and women to understand themselves better in society while working together at a later point in life in profession,the demoniac class of people have brought co-education which is part of the western educational system. This is another topic in itself which can be talked about for hrs.
In order for men and women to understand themselves better in society while working together at a later point in life in profession,the demoniac class of people have brought co-education which is part of the western educational system. This is another topic in itself which can be talked about for hrs.
Recently I got a message in facebook from a woman asking me to support having female initiating gurus within ISKCON. I thought to bring a few points to have a balanced view in this regard.
First of all this is more of identification of the self with feminine gender and this is all about bringing equal rights in every sphere of life for woman. I am not taking sides of feminism nor going to go against this just because I am having the body
of a man.
This thought that souls who are in the body of woman are subordinates to souls who are in the body of man in a gross sense has lead to this kind of misconception.
Here there's a warning to those who are considering the souls of acharyas or gurus in the body of men as ordinary men restricted to the body of men.Many many acharyas in the line of disciplic succession like Srila Prabhupada,Bhakti Vinod Thakura, Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati,Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami have
have accepted the form of a human man because of quite a lot of reasons. Even though their Swaroopa in the spiritual world is feminine there's a huge difference from our conditional form of human body of woman and that sac-cid-ananda form of manjaris and Gopis. Not by just wearing a Gopi dress can a woman become a Gopi. The point is we are still suffering from the modes of nature or the forces of nature on our senses,mind,body. We need to understand this first. Bhakti vinoda Thakura sings in a song that this body of mine is not freed from the forces of material nature. Why did they not take a female form when they descended? Think for yourself! It's true we had Jahnava mata but how many such exalted beings we have?
Here there's a warning to those who are considering the souls of acharyas or gurus in the body of men as ordinary men restricted to the body of men.Many many acharyas in the line of disciplic succession like Srila Prabhupada,Bhakti Vinod Thakura, Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati,Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami have
have accepted the form of a human man because of quite a lot of reasons. Even though their Swaroopa in the spiritual world is feminine there's a huge difference from our conditional form of human body of woman and that sac-cid-ananda form of manjaris and Gopis. Not by just wearing a Gopi dress can a woman become a Gopi. The point is we are still suffering from the modes of nature or the forces of nature on our senses,mind,body. We need to understand this first. Bhakti vinoda Thakura sings in a song that this body of mine is not freed from the forces of material nature. Why did they not take a female form when they descended? Think for yourself! It's true we had Jahnava mata but how many such exalted beings we have?
If women are competent and qualified enough who's preventing them from achieving the position of initiating gurus. There are exceptional women qualified for this position but not everyone would be happy to be so,because their roles in the society are different. It's their very nature to take care of children and bring good future to the world by their qualified children. Again I dont know who has this much time to get new new problems into the society to break the heads of GBC. I am quite unsure if they have time to perform their sadhana first.
Srila Prabhupad said that a man can go anywhere around the world and come back without losing himself but a woman cannot go anywhere at anytime around the world and come back safely without losing her chastity.
I am not trying to establish that those in the body of men are highly qualified but just that those in the body of men are lucky enough to get the best out of it without being exploited much. Even physically if man and woman are allowed to fight who will win? Men are meant to protect women and not exploit them like what's happening now. In the name of equal rights some demons want to exploit women. Foolish are those women who could not believe the words of acharyas and scriptures but these demons.
Most people say it was applicable only during those olden days of acharyas,but now woman can be independent. Bhagavad Gita is also old. Krishna spoke the same Bhagavad Gita to Sun God Vivasvan. It's millions of years old but still applicable to all at all times. Krishna did not say I spoke version 1.1 of Bhagavad Gita to Sun God and now it's 1.2 for Arjuna. No need to rewrite the words of Vyasa deva. It's already complete and perfect.No need of new versions for a perfect software, so are the scriptures.
Krishna and His brother Balaram did not go to study from Santi Pani muni's wife but from him. In the Vedic culture,the boys of Gurukul are not allowed to even come in contact with the wife of Guru if she's young.
So when devotee women become old may be they can take up this role but I am immature to comment further on this without being a big scholar and leave this to GBC.
So dear devotee ladies, dont get befooled by these innovative ways of thinking beyond the scriptures and sadhus to create your own disaster!
Dinesh
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