Why Women Can Be Śikṣā, but Not Dīkṣā Gurus?
It is not based on spiritual values. No one should fool themselves on this. It is based purely on social values, modern social values, that the women should be dīkṣā-gurus.
It is not based on spiritual values. No one should fool themselves on this. It is based purely on social values, modern social values, that the women should be dīkṣā-gurus.
Institution is necessary because you are dealing with neophytes, the evil is the neophytes themselves. It is not that the system itself is the problem, it is the system how it is used by the neophyte mentality. If the institution is used for one’s own purpose, that’s the evil.
He wasn’t doing it for business. They were invited over for spiritual discussions, but that’s what he fed them so that they would be comfortable in the environment and be happy to sit around.
Dvaraka was not a village, neither was Indraprastha, neither was Mathura, neither was Hastinapura. So Varnashrama also includes cities. The main point is Krishna consciousness.
Bhūmīdevī doesn’t appreciate that women’s breasts touch the ground. If it’s a matter of ‘No, we have the right to do it,’ what about her? She is also a woman.
Prabhu: In a family of devotees kids sometimes watch cartoons or hear audio recordings, stories about Krishna or Vedic thematics. But often this kind of material contains violence because Krishna kills demons etc…
Unless you can identify the quality of Kṛṣṇa that you are looking for, then you can’t even see what is the connection. Because the point is is, it is not the game. The game is just a medium for that quality.