The Absolute Krishna transcends morality itself; His representative acharya deserves unconditional reverence and surrender.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with John Griesser [later initiated as Yadubara Dāsa] and Devotees at the Sea Palace Hotel in Collaba — January 5, 1971, Bombay 710105R1-BOMBAY [59:28 Minutes] Conv_710105R1-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: Because India, the caste system is very strong. So a brāhmaṇa will never accept a girl born in one śūdra family, although in śāstra it says that you can accept. [Sanskrit] family not very respectful. Here family consideration is very...
During marriage ceremony, the family consideration is very strong. Now that is dwindling. Formerly, family tradition, then horoscope. The so-called love was not given any importance, the so-called love. As in other countries the boys select wife or girls selection...
No. There is no importance on this. The father, mother will see the horoscope, whether this boy and girl will agree according to the horoscope. Rāja-yoga[?] There are some calculations, astronomical calculations, from his birth, from her birth, and the expert astrologer select, "Yes, this boy and this girl will be happy." Then they are married.
If there is any discrepancy, they will deny, "No." These were the considerations. Then family tradition. What is the tradition of the boy's father's family, mother's family, so many things they calculate, then the marriage settlement, "Yes." And the boy might not have seen the girl. There is no necessity of the boy seeing the girl or the girl seeing the boy. There is no necessity.
After marriage, when the marriage ceremony is performed, then the boy and girl can see one another: "Oh, she is my wife." [laughter] "He is my husband." That. [aside:] So. You can begin. Oh, this is another magazine, Earth.
Yadubara: It's a new magazine, and this is the second issue out in America. It promised to be a very good magazine, and it hasn't turned out to be so. It's just another slick magazine.
Prabhupāda: Well, unless magazines are reduced to such position, it will not be sold. Yadubara: Yeah.