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[[Category:Uniting of Man and Woman]]
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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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First of all try to understand that you depend. The . . . after man and woman unite, there is children, and the man goes away, and you are embarrassed. The woman is embarrassed. Why? Why this is . . . is made possible? A man and woman unites, and the woman becomes pregnant, and the husband goes away. Then the poor woman is embarrassed with the child. She has to beg from the government. So do you think it is very nice thing? The Vedic idea is that woman should be married to a man, and the man should take charge of the woman and the children independently, so that they do not become a burden to the government or to the public.
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[[Vanisource:750709 - Interview, TV - Chicago|750709 - Interview, TV - Chicago]]
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Woman reporter: What happens when women support men?

Prabhupāda: First of all try to understand that you depend. The . . . after man and woman unite, there is children, and the man goes away, and you are embarrassed. The woman is embarrassed. Why? Why this is . . . is made possible? A man and woman unites, and the woman becomes pregnant, and the husband goes away. Then the poor woman is embarrassed with the child. She has to beg from the government. So do you think it is very nice thing? The Vedic idea is that woman should be married to a man, and the man should take charge of the woman and the children independently, so that they do not become a burden to the government or to the public.

Woman reporter: Do you think the social unrest . . .

Prabhupāda: I am thinking like this. You give me the answer. Simply you go on questioning. I question you: do you think this burden to the government or the public is good?

Woman reporter: I don't understand what you're saying.

Nitāi: Do you think that the burden caused when the husband goes away from the wife, that burden to the government is good?

Woman reporter: No.

Prabhupāda: So that has happened. Because the woman does not agree to be subordinate—she wants equal freedom—so the husband goes away and the woman is embarrassed with the children. And it becomes a burden to the government.

Woman reporter: Is there anything wrong when the woman works?

Prabhupāda: There are so many things wrong. But first thing is the wife, the woman, the wife of somebody, and the child born by somebody, they should become burden to the government or to the public? First of all answer this thing. Why she should become burden to the government? What is your answer?

Woman reporter: Well, men are a burden to the government too.

Prabhupāda: Do you think, from social point of view, this position of woman and the fatherless children are very nice thing? No.

Woman reporter: What I'm trying to say is that . . . this may happen to some women. I'm talking about women who are not . . .

Prabhupāda: Not . . . these are the general cases. You cannot say "some." I see in America mostly the woman . . .

Woman reporter: Oh, then what you're saying is not all women should be subordinate to all men.

Prabhupāda: No, man should be subordinate to the man, woman, so that the man can take charge of the woman. Then that woman is not a problem to the public.
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