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[[Category:Where Is]]
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[[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]]
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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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"Where is the woman's freedom? The boy and the girl intermingle, and the girl becomes pregnant, and the boy goes out without any responsibility, and the burden... The child is a burden for the woman. Either she should kill or beg from the government. Is that independence?" They are trying to be independent. This is not civilization.
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[[Vanisource:760601 - Lecture SB 06.01.33 - Honolulu|760601 - Lecture SB 06.01.33 - Honolulu]]
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Prabhupāda: Ah, you know him. Just see. It is practical. Because he thought the life is finished, there is no sex life. So actually that is the fact here. Birds, beast, you will find the pigeons, the dogs, they are enjoying sex at least four times in a hour. So there are men also like that. So here in this material world the sex life is this top pleasure. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham. But it is very abominable. Just imagine what kind of happiness it is. But we are forced to act like that. So tuccham, very insignificant. Yan maithunādi gṛhamedhi sukhaṁ hi tuccham ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.45|SB 7.9.45]]). What kind of pleasure? Kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham. It is just like itching between the two hands. And tṛpyanti neha kṛpanā bahu dūḥkha-bhājaḥ: the aftereffects of sex life is very, very bad.

So in that interview I gave that information, that woman's freedom? So I gave this reply, that "Where is the woman's freedom? The boy and the girl intermingle, and the girl becomes pregnant, and the boy goes out without any responsibility, and the burden... The child is a burden for the woman. Either she should kill or beg from the government. Is that independence?" They are trying to be independent. This is not civilization. There is no question of independence. The woman must be given protection in childhood by the father unless she is married, and in youthhood by the husband, and in old age by grown-up sons. This is Vedic civilization. Na striyaṁ svatantram arhati (Manu Saṁhitā 9.3). Just like children, they must be always protected. It is not dependence; it is protection. So there should be responsible father, responsible husband, responsible sons to keep woman very happy. In India still it is going on.
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