Date: 3/21/99 9:17:51 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Parijata2
To: Anudasa
> This is all very nice, by Tripurari Swami, but he believes
> women are a less intelligent, inferior birth. If you doubt me,
> ask him. I read an entire text on com by him where he insisted
> on this. However, that is Hinduism or the caste system /
> Varnashrama-dharma, not Krishna Consciousness.
> When women are viewed as lesser like this, that is one
> of the causes for child abuse. They can philosophize all
> the want otherwise but this increased risk of abuse holds
> true. Actions speak louder than words and we have already
> seen the results. Where there is this type of disrespect
> for women there is abuse of both the ladies and their
> children. There can be no unity as long as these
> individual issues are ignored. YS, Prtha dd
BHAGAVAD-GITA 1.40
PURPORT
As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery. According to Canakya Pandita, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy. So the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnashrama system. On the failure of such varnashrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men, and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population. Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in society, and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.
> However, that is Hinduism or the caste system /
> Varnashrama-dharma, not Krishna Consciousness.
http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Thebes/4830/Varnasrama_Debate-4.html
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