Category:Women Require
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the traditional Vedic social structure regarding the protection of women. He emphasizes that just as children require guidance, women require protection throughout the different stages of their lives—by their father in childhood, their husband in youth, and their grown sons in old age. Artificial independence leaves them vulnerable and unprotected, which is considered an abominable condition of life. Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that in the material world, men and women require each other, and by combining peacefully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they can make steady spiritual progress together.
- Vedic Stages of Protection: According to the Manu-saṁhitā, a woman requires continuous protection—by her father in childhood, her husband in youth, and her grown sons in old age.
- The Illusion of Independence: Artificial independence leaves women unprotected and vulnerable, which is an abominable and dangerous condition compared to the security of traditional guidance.
- Sociological Categorization: In terms of material management, women, vaiśyas, and śūdras are often categorized together as needing the intelligent guidance and protection of the state or elder family members.
- Mutual Dependence in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: In the material world, a man requires a woman and a woman requires a man; when united peacefully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they can advance together spiritually without mental disturbance.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Women Require Guidance and Protection.
Pages in category "Women Require"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A woman requires protection. But normally we regard that any unmarried woman with children should take security of the temple - that is more secure than the protection of Krishna
- After all, in the material world a man requires a woman and a woman requires a man. When they are combined, they should live peacefully in Krsna consciousness and should not be restless like the lightning, flashing from one group of clouds to another
- After all, in the material world a man requires a woman, and a woman requires a man. When they are combined, they should live peacefully in Krsna consciousness and should not be restless, like the lightning, flashing from one group of clouds to another
- As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family. BG 1972 purports
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- The children of the state, the cow, the diseased person, the woman and the old man specifically require the protection of the state or a ksatriya king
- The whole idea is that woman require protection. They are very innocent, weaker sex. They should not be given freedom. Just like a child cannot be given freedom. It is dangerous
- They have been put in one group: woman, vaisya and sudra, because they are not very intelligent. They can be molded by another intelligent man to the proper channel; therefore they require guidance
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- Woman class and children class, they are taken in the same category. They require protection. They require protection. That is the Manu-samhita
- Woman is never allowed to remain independent. That is Vedic principle of life. Actually, the woman is the weaker sex. They require protection by good father, good husband and good child also
- Woman requires protection by the father, by the husband and by the elderly children. But that is now finished. Practically no protection. They are, under the name of so-called freedom, loitering in the street
- Woman requires protection by the father, by the husband and by the elderly children. But that is now finished. Practically no protection. They are, under the name of so-called freedom, loitering in the street. It is a very abominable condition of life
- Woman requires protection, and the husband is responsible to give protection, the father is responsible to give protection, and the elderly children, they are responsible to give protection
- Woman requires protection. According to Vedic culture, woman has no independence. Because they cannot keep their independence. It is not possible
- Woman requires to be protected - in childhood by the father, in youthhood by the husband, and in old age by the elderly sons