MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #6 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070802_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Any questions? [Laughter] Prabhu: Let's take someone, not me, but someone... [Laughter] HH BVPS Maharaja: Okay, just a hypothetical... [Laughter] Some person of the 6 billion, could be any culture, any place, any time...

Forget doesn’t mean you are stupid. It doesn’t mean that if any symptoms come up of their previous behavior that wasn’t correct, you are not at that point not defending against it. It doesn’t mean you are just open and trust and therefore you get run over.

If you are doing something for somebody because the soul is benefited, that is the real protection, but if we identify with the body or only see things with the senses then we think, 'Unless someone is taking care of my personal environment  then I am not being protected.'

We think simple means no opulence. But in the Vedic the opulence is designed for the mode of goodness. We say marble is very expensive, but from the Vedic perspective it’s very pure. It’s more pure the gold. So it’s simpler because a floor of gold would be quite expensive.

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.

Lecture audio, this passage starting about 19:20 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-25-NOI-37.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Men there is sanyasa, women there is reclusion. Because it's just a matter of, you just kind-of fade into the background. Because the point is is, the woman is prominent when all the facility is there, the emotions, the senses,

http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year1/bg101/2011-03-14-BVPS-BG-18.42-18.48-Varnasrama-details-brahmacaries-presidents-begging.-Feminine-and-masculine-NF.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 1 and consists of 91 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/bhagavad-gita-seriatim/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur, September 2010-April 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents. Ishvara-bhava means protection of the citizens. One who does not protect is not a kshatriya

MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #15 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070807_1_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Any questions? Prabhu: It was mentioned that where our focus goes, naturally that activity gives us better results, or proper results. But sometimes devotees have this concept that if they do some service, which is not in accordance with

MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #10 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070804_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Any more squash subjects? Prabhu: You mentioned, Maharaja, that the women have to feel that the men are attached to them, but you also said that it actually should be that the women are more attached to men