Cannot be acarya
Expressions researched:
"cannot be an acarya"
|"cannot be acarya"
|"cannot become an acarya"
|"cannot become acarya"
|"should not become acarya"
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
CC Madhya-lila
- tandera carana sevi bhakta-sane vasa
- janame janame haya, ei abhilasa
CC Antya-lila
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupada: If a woman is perfect in Krsna consciousness... Just like Jahnava-devi, Lord Nityananda's wife, she was acarya. She was acarya. She was controlling the whole Vaisnava community.
Atreya Rsi: Lord Nityananda?
Prabhupada: Wife. Jahnava-devi. She was controlling the whole Gaudiya Vaisnava community.
Atreya Rsi: Do you have references about that in any of your books, Srila Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: I don't think. But there are many acaryas. Maybe somewhere I might have mentioned. It is not that woman cannot be acarya. Generally, they do not become. In very special case. But Jahnava-devi was accepted as, but she did not declare.
Atreya Rsi: Women today..., there is a very popular topic amongst women. They speak of liberation. And their desire to be liberated is sane, but they do not understand. And they object very strongly... I've spoken to some of these so-called liberated women, and they object strongly to Krsna consciousness, because they think we discriminate against women. So I have been taking advantage of opportunities to describe to them that the only means to liberation for men and woman is through Krsna consciousness.
Prabhupada: Krsna does not make any discrimination. Krsna does not make. Whatever difference is there, it is bodily difference. But as soul, there is equality. So whatever difference we make, that is bodily difference. So when one is above the bodily concept of life, there is no difference. Why woman? Even cats and dogs. Woman is human being. Even cats and dogs, they have got the same spirit soul. So a learned scholar will see from the spiritual platform. Then there is equality.1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupada: Nobody says, "Here is God." That is, perhaps... We Vaisnavas say; I am preaching. Perhaps I am the first preacher to the world, that "Here is God."
Dr. Patel: Some of these great Vaisnava acaryas were doing interpretation of Bhagavad-gita...
Prabhupada: The who is acarya except the Vaisnava acarya? All loafer class. All loafer class. They're not acaryas. Except these Vaisnava acaryas, who is acarya? They're not acaryas. Acaryam mam vijaniyan [SB 11.17.27].
Dr. Patel: I read your Bhagavad-gita, and after that, I read Ramanuja's. They more or less the same...
Prabhupada: Same thing. There is no difference between the acaryas. Then how he becomes acarya if there is difference of opinion? They cannot be acarya.Page Title: | Cannot be acarya |
Compiler: | Syamananda, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 18 of jan, 2008 |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=4, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=2, Let=0 |