Women's perfection lies in chastity, cooking skill, and Krishna consciousness—not in material education.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — July 10, 1975, Chicago 750710MW-CHICAGO [21:20 Minutes] Walk_750710MW-CHICAGO [in car] Jayatīrtha: It says, "Forgive me if this story is not well-written. I am a woman. My brain weighs less than a man's, and I am not equal in intelligence." So she admits. "His Divine Grace A.
C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the seventy-seven-year-old founder of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, said so Wednesday. The Society is dedicated to peace in the world through love of God and relinquishment of all things material. The Swami spoke seated cross-legged on an expensive looking cushion surrounded by fresh flowers, microphones and burning incense in a conference room he rented at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel.
He is in town for a Kṛṣṇa parade at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, down State Street, in which he will ride on a flower-bedecked float. He then will fly to Philadelphia for more celebration and philosophical chats. He looked occasionally at his gold watch as he explained his life philosophy. His adoring disciples, five men, knelt at his side. 'The MAN,' " capital M-A-N, "he said, 'who loves God, controls his sense, is clean inside and out, is simple and tolerant and uses knowledge he has acquired in practical life...' " Prabhupāda: Intolerant? Jayatīrtha: No, "and tolerant." " 'Such MEN,' " capital M-E-N again, "he said, 'are first-class citizens and should be advisors to the world.
Second- and third-class MEN have not found God and should be administrators and workers.' " Not exactly right. "He spoke thirty minutes and never mentioned women. I asked how women fit into his system. 'Women,' he said, 'is not equal in intelligence to man. Man's brain weighs sixty-four ounces; women's weighs thirty-six ounces.
It is just a fact.' He continued, 'Women are meant to assist men. That is all.' He said women do not figure in his class system except as daughters or wives. 'An unmarried woman presumably is classless. Is that,' asked a male reporter..." Prabhupāda: [chuckles] That is fact. She is prostitute, that's all.
If you classify, then she is prostitute. [laughter] That's all. There is no other way. Jayatīrtha: " 'Is that,' asked a male reporter, 'what is wrong with Mrs. Indira Gandhi?' The Swami hedged." Then actually they made a mistake.
" 'I cannot say. I would be arrested.' " That was actually a misquote. [Prabhupāda laughs] Brahmānanda: Well, it's the idea, though. Jayatīrtha: Yeah. "The Swami now lives in Los Angeles, and he trains his followers there.