Category:Women Class
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the traditional Vedic understanding of the woman class, emphasizing their need for protection and their specific sociological role. According to Vedic civilization, women, śūdras, and dvija-bandhus are considered generally less intellectually inclined toward complex philosophy, which is why scriptures like the Mahābhārata were compiled specifically for them. However, true happiness for the woman class is found in being protected by a father, husband, or grown son, rather than artificial independence. Despite these material designations, the spiritual path of bhakti transcends all bodily categories, offering equal facility to everyone to attain the supreme perfection.
- The Principle of Protection: Vedic culture mandates that women should be protected by a father, husband, or grown son, as artificial independence leads to unhappiness and societal pollution.
- Sociological Classification: Along with laborers and unqualified descendants of higher classes, the woman class is categorized as generally less intelligent regarding complex philosophical study.
- An Auspicious Inspiration: When properly protected and situated in chastity, women are an immensely powerful and auspicious source of energy and inspiration for men.
- Spiritual Equality in Devotion: Regardless of material intelligence or social classification, the sublime path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is open to everyone, allowing anyone to become a first-class devotee.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Giving Protection to the Woman Class.
Pages in category "Women Class"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- A woman is compared to a doll (darumayi) because she has no independence. She should always be controlled by a man. Still, due to false prestige, a class of women wants to remain independent
- All these intricacies of Vedic knowledge are systematically presented in the Mahabharata for the understanding of the woman class, the laborer class and the unqualified members of brahmana, ksatriya or vaisya families
- Although the woman is born in the brahmin family, she has no that reformation. Because striyah, woman class, are taken less intelligent
- As far as the women class are concerned, they are accepted as a power of inspiration for men. As such, women are more powerful than men. Mighty Julius Caesar was controlled by a Cleopatra
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- Declaration of independence by the woman class, is not their happiness. They are unhappy. Better to become dependent upon father, upon husband and upon elderly children. That is their happiness
- Dvija-bandhus are certainly not as intelligent as the children of the regular twice-born families. The dvija-bandhus are classified with the sudras and the woman class, who are by nature less intelligent
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- I do not wish to discuss this point very much, but according to our Manu-samhita, it is said that women should not be free. Na svatantryam arhati - Svatantryam is not allowed to the woman class
- If you read simply Mahabharata, which is meant for the sudras and the woman class and the less-intelligent persons born in higher class society, you will find in Mahabharata so sublime literature
- It is said that the bhakti cult is meant for the sudras, vaisyas and the less intelligent woman class. But that is not the actual fact. The bhakti cult is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simultaneously sublime and easy
- It is very difficult to satisfy a woman by a person who has no good income, neither very good health. The woman as a class wants sufficient means to eat, and decorate and at the same time full satisfaction of sex
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- Kunti said, "if such great sages, who are transcendental to all the reactions of material existence, are unable to know You, then as far as we are concerned, belonging to the less intelligent woman class, how is it possible for us to know Your glories"
- Kuntidevi humbly submits, - You are meant for the paramahamsas and munis, those who are cleansed in heart and are engaged in bhakti-yoga. But what are we? We are simply women. We are in a lower class. How can we understand You
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- Mahabharata is especially written for such (varna-sankara) class of men and women. And the hero of Mahabharata is Arjuna. Similarly, the hero of Srimad-Bhagavatam is Arjuna's grandson, Maharaja Pariksit, King Pariksit
- Mahabharata, which was especially prepared for the less intelligent class, namely the women, the laborers and those who are worthless descendants of the brahmanas, ksatriyas and higher sections of the vaisyas
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- The dvija-bandhus are classified with the sudras and the woman class, who are by nature less intelligent. The sudras and the woman class do not have to undergo any samskara save and except the ceremony of marriage
- The Lord (Krsna) is beyond the observation of sense perception. Queen Kunti accepts this deficiency of the conditioned soul, especially of the woman class, who are less intelligent
- The woman class, they are not happy in the Western countries. And still in our country, although we are so fallen, still our woman class remains satisfied. Being predominated, they are happy. They are happy. That is my practical experience
- They (Caitanya's feminine devotees) were advised to bow down from a distant place. This is not a sign of hatred for women as a class, but it is a stricture imposed on the sannyasi not to have close connections with women. BG 1972 purports
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- When there is deliberate negligence of the regulative principles of religious life, the women as a class become polluted, and as a result there are unwanted children
- Who are less-intelligent class of men? The woman class or the laborer class, and those who are born in high family but their qualities are not so improved
- Woman can become first class if she is chaste and very much attached to husband. And if the husband is first class, she becomes first class. Because woman's duty is to follow husband
- Woman class and children class, they are taken in the same category. They require protection. They require protection. That is the Manu-samhita
- Woman class, are taken less intelligent, they should be given protection, but they cannot be elevated. But here in the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna surpasses all these formalities. He is giving facility to everyone, never mind what he is
- Woman class, laborer class and those who are born in higher family but intelligence is very poor, they are called dvija-bandhu. And for these classes of men the Mahabharata was compiled
- Woman's duty is to follow husband. So if the husband is first class, the wife is first class, if she sticks to the husband
- Women as a class are no better than boys, and therefore they have no discriminatory power like that of a man
- Women as a class are very lusty, and apparently their continuous lusty desires are never satisfied
- Women as a class are very softhearted; their natural affection and love cannot be checked by artificial means
- Women's position is subordinate to man. So if the man is first class, the woman is first class. If the man is second class, the woman is second class. If the man is third class, the woman is third class