Mataji: What is your view of Matajis doing full dandavats? HH BVPS Maharaja: Ahh, if they want, they can... Problem is is, see, Gaudiyas generally don't. Others do, but the Gaudiyas generally are not so... See, there is Vaishnavas in general, then you have your peculiarities of the group, or
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rudlurn3pD8&w=536&h=397] QUESTIONS Q.1: It is said that a woman should serve Krishna through husband, and only in this way she will return to the spiritual world. What to do if due to various circumstances woman is alone, without a husband? HH BVPS Maharaja: Means, the devotee is serving Krishna.
Mataji: My husband died, but I have 2 grown-up daughters and I don't feel like I should be taking vanaprastha, but I would like to understand what's my duty and behavior towards my family and myself as a woman, how should I behave and what are the rules in that
The whole problem of the Mahabharata is all based on passion, that sets the whole scene for the Mahabharata. So we see that this attachment of the senses, attachment to name, fame, they just make trouble. Whatever trouble we have in our life, it’s because of these things, because of
The husband and wife are 100% equal at the time of conception of a child because it takes both of them equally to create a child. To conceive a child it's completely 50/50, there is a complete equality at that time. So the whole idea in the Vedic culture, because