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| <p>Kīrtanānanda: It is not a matter of cloth.</p> | | <p>Kīrtanānanda: It is not a matter of cloth.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No. Sa sannyāsī. Anāsaktasya viṣayān. He has no attachment for this eating, sleeping, mating. He is attached to Kṛṣṇa. And that is sannyāsī. Sannyāsī does not means dress. Detached. Sat sannyāsī. Sat, oṁ tat sat, the supreme, and for Him everything, risk all. That is sannyāsa.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: No. Sa sannyāsī. Anāsaktasya viṣayān. He has no attachment for this eating, sleeping, mating. He is attached to Kṛṣṇa. And that is sannyāsī. Sannyāsī does not means dress. Detached. Sat sannyāsī. Sat, oṁ tat sat, the supreme, and for Him everything, risk all. That is sannyāsa.</p> |
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| | <div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| | <div id="MorningWalkJune51976LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="113" link="Morning Walk -- June 5, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 5, 1976, Los Angeles"> |
| | <div class="heading">With man is dangerous for both. I, I have given that: man is good, woman is good, when they come together-bad. Both of them bad. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 5, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 5, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: Yesterday you suggested that I send groups of brahmacāriṇīs to that farm in Oregon where Yamunā-mātājī is staying, but I was thinking that, actually, she is a very, very wonderful preacher, and if she can visit our temples more often, then she can.... In other words, it's more expensive and difficult to send so many people to her...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So, do that.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: Otherwise, she can come to us.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's also a healthier environment, I think. It's a little...</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: She lives alone with Dīna-tāriṇī. She doesn't have much association. She's keeping herself apart a little bit.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, I think, that's one..., there's one disadvantage is that they have a little bit of a, their attitude is a little bit separatist from ISKCON in the sense of keeping aloof, and if the girls go there and live there, they may develop that same mentality. It might be better for her to come to the temples to teach.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Then make arrangement; I have not objection.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: (laughs) She has objection. We can't force her.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's the problem. And if that's her feeling, then if you send people there they'll get the same.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: (break) Worshiping Deity.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Oh, they're doing that beautifully, and they're expert cooks. They're very good devotees.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: They could just be so valuable to helping our temples if they agreed to preach to our devotees. They could train. (break) ...brought the reporters from Time magazine over to see our temple. I had Mother Yamunā prepare some prasādam, and she was also serving them, and then she was explaining about prasādam and preaching. So I could understand that as long as she stays on that farm, she's limiting herself, because she's an excellent preacher. She could be very valuable, expert preacher. In her.... Their idea is that they would like to make their farm a little bigger, with more women living with them.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: I like that idea.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: There will be no man to help give advice, just the women manage it all themselves.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Just like in Vṛndāvana there is bhajanāśrama, they're only women.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śyāmabhajis?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Not śyāmabhajis, but bhajanāśrama.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: So that's a good idea.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: With man is dangerous for both. I, I have given that: man is good, woman is good, when they come together-bad. Both of them bad.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bad. We see that.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: They say that that farmland in Oregon is too small, very small.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Let them organize that.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: Jagadīśa was telling me that there are some boys who are donating seventy-five acres of farmland about four hours from Los Angeles. It is the best farmland in California. So he wants to develop this, because they have given it to him, specifically to make a farm and eventually to have the children of Gurukula live there. So perhaps we could invite Yamunā.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: As soon as you make Gurukula, government immediately stops.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Stopped. That's the same (indistinct). The government can't raise objection. Better to keep it real small. Children are learning, then they are sent to India when they're eight or ten. The children here are doing very nicely.</p> |
| | <p>Devotee: The children here are doing as nicely as in Dallas, I've seen.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, small groups, small group.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, and it forces all the temples to have a community, which is nice.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Government rascals will come, "Do this, do that, do that," and they will never be satisfied, because their business is to tease.</p> |
| | <p>Hari-śauri: Simply to harass.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Harass. So that they may not extend this philosophy, no meat-eating, Then their business will be spoiled.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. We represent a threat to them.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, therefore they do not like this program anywhere. No meat-eating, no drinking, no illicit sex. Then what remains? Everything is finished.</p> |
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: Actually, we have many enemies in America.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, naturally.</p> |
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| | <div id="RoomConversationJuly311976NewMayapurFrenchfarm_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="235" link="Room Conversation -- July 31, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 31, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)"> |
| | <div class="heading">And brahmacārī, this sex impulse should be controlled. That ruins the whole character. Our big, big sannyāsīs are becoming victimized. So that is the danger. Woman is good, man is good; when they combine together, bad. This is the material world. Both of them are good, but when they combine together, they are bad. This is material world. In the spiritual world, there is no such combination of sense gratification. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 31, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)|Room Conversation -- July 31, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagavān: The boys, they should learn how also to cook?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Huh? I never said that. Why you are bringing that question? I said the girls should be. Cooking is not boy's business. But cooking is not a very difficult art. If they want, the boys can... (coughs) There are so many, in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta sindhu it is stated, how Rādhārāṇī was qualified. So these things should be taught to the girls. If the girls are taught to give service to the husband to the greatest satisfaction, there will be no disagreement.</p> |
| | <p>Yogeśvara: Can the older boys be trained in a particular kind of devotional service? For example, press work?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, everything is devotional. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]), there are varieties. We are not Māyāvādī, impersonalists, finished, all business. It is not like that. So whatever business is going on in our movement, everything should be taught according to the capacity, boys or girls, it doesn't matter. Some department is suitable for the boys, some department are suitable for the girls. In this way, they should be trained up. But everyone should be trained up to give service. That is Gurukula. And brahmacārī, this sex impulse should be controlled. That ruins the whole character. Our big, big sannyāsīs are becoming victimized. So that is the danger. Woman is good, man is good; when they combine together, bad. This is the material world. Both of them are good, but when they combine together, they are bad. This is material world. In the spiritual world, there is no such combination of sense gratification. Therefore it is always good. Everyone is part and parcel of God. So they are good. In the spiritual world, they combine together, it becomes bad, in the material world. In the spiritual world there is no such combination of sense gratification. Therefore they are always good. So you have to train like that. In the spiritual world there are very, very beautiful women, thousand, thousands times. Here, in the heavenly planets, they are calculated the best perfectional body of the woman. But in the spiritual world, still further. But there is no attraction of sex. They are working together, serving together, everything. But the sex attraction, there is no. They are elevated so much in the service of the Lord.... Sex attraction is a kind of pleasure. So there are different types of pleasure. Here, if somebody, good foodstuff is there, and.... That is also another sense pleasure, and by the time one beautiful woman is canvassing, "Now, come and let us enjoy," he will give up this good food. He'll go for sex. Because he will think this is better than that. So one pleasure is rejected if one is engaged in better pleasure. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate ([[Vanisource:BG 2.59 (1972)|BG 2.59]]). So in the spiritual world the service of the Lord is so pleasing, that they can neglect this sex pleasure. That is spiritual world. They have no attachment for sex pleasure. Yadāvadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde nava-nava-rasa-dhāmānudyata bata nārī-saṅgame bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭu. When one spits on the sex pleasure, that means he is elevated in spiritual life. So in the material world that is not possible. But by training, by knowledge, one can be elevated. That is Gurukula. So these are the general principles. Now arrange.</p> |
| | <p>Jyotirmāyī: I was thinking about that, that because the girls are trained like brahmacārīnis also in the Gurukula, they should be also kept very, very simple, just like the little boys, brahmacārīs.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: No, our life is simple. We don't want luxury. We don't want luxury, but as we are accustomed in so many ways, as far as possible. But life should be very simple. To increase unnecessary things unnecessarily, that is material life.</p> |
| | <p>Jyotirmāyī: I was thinking in that way, simple clothes, no jewels, just like the boys, simple...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Don't say "no." But give a taste for the good, then it will be automatically "no." And if you say "no" then he'll, they will rebel. The four "no's," that is very difficult. Still they are breaking. No illicit sex, they are breaking. But if they develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness, this will be automatically "no." So don't bring many "no's," but give them positive life. Then it will be automatically "no." And if you say "no," that will be a struggle. This is the psychology. Positive engagement is devotional service. So if they are attracted by devotional service, other things will be automatically "no." Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate. Just like Ekādaśī day. Ekādaśī day, we observe fasting. And there are many patients in the hospital, they are also fasting. But they'll "No, no." They'll, within heart, "If I get, I shall eat, I shall eat." But those who are devotee, they voluntarily "no." The same fasting is going on for the devotees and the hospital patient. And that "no" and this "no," there is difference. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate ([[Vanisource:BG 2.59 (1972)|BG 2.59]]). It is not meant for the mass of people, but at least if we keep a section of people ideal to the human society, they will be guided.</p> |
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| | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
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| | <div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3> |
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| | <div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaPhiladelphia14July1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="410" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975"> |
| | <div class="heading">All women should be sent from Calcutta to Mayapur. No women should be in Calcutta. Woman is good and man is good, but if you combine them, then both become bad, unless there is regulation. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Bhagavata das, I received report that he was talking privately in his room with a woman, and if anybody would try to come in, then he would get angry, saying get out, get out. What is this? In India private talks with woman are immediately condemned. He is a good preacher, but it is very dangerous to close the door with woman, and then he becomes angry if anybody comes. Lust is so strong that if it is obstructed it turns into anger. Brahmananda Swami and Bhavananda Swami also confirm that he has this tendency. All women should be sent from Calcutta to Mayapur. No women should be in Calcutta. Woman is good and man is good, but if you combine them, then both become bad, unless there is regulation.</p> |
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| | <div id="LettertoGurudasaBombay22December1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="766" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 22 December, 1975" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 22 December, 1975"> |
| | <div class="heading">I always say, man is good, and woman is also good, but when they combine, then they become bad. Before there was so much difficulty, but now you are doing well and Yamuna dasi is also doing well, and I am very pleased with your work. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 22 December, 1975|Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 22 December, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received the letters of appreciation of your preaching work. Thank you very much, you are very competent, and if you continue like this you will get strength from Krishna more and more.</p> |
| | <p>I always say, man is good, and woman is also good, but when they combine, then they become bad. Before there was so much difficulty, but now you are doing well and Yamuna dasi is also doing well, and I am very pleased with your work. Please continue like this and keep me informed.</p> |
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