Unity in Krishna consciousness transcends ashram differences; chanting Hare Krishna unites all equally.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...telling that too much stricture on the gṛhasthas may cause some disturbance. Eh? Madhudviṣa: Yes. Prabhupāda: So I think the gṛhastha themselves should form a small committee and define what they will do, instead of forcing something, because in this age, nobody can follow strictly all the stricture in the śāstras. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think that we formulated anything for them to do. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Any of our resolutions, it doesn't say anything about what they should do. It simply says what should..., how our Society should be run, our temples. It doesn't state anything about how the gṛhasthas should live. Prabhupāda: No...
What? What was your point...? Madhudviṣa: Well, last evening we were saying that sex life according to the regulative principles means sex life only when the guru tells the gṛhastha to have sex life. And what I said last night is that if that is the case, then there would be no more gṛhasthas in the Society. They will not...
Prabhupāda: Be practical. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So that point they can discuss amongst themselves, but that doesn't have anything to do with our resolutions. Right? Devotee: Yeah. This is the idea. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In other words, our resolutions are on another point, that as far as when they..., when they have sex life and when they don't, they should have a committee and they can decide that. But...
Resolutions we passed had nothing to do with that. Our resolutions had to do with if someone is not to be supported by the movement, things like this. Those things are a different matter. The actual way the gṛhasthas should live, that is their...
They should decide that by committee. Yaṣodānandana: There now should be a proposition that before they enter the gṛhastha āśrama, they should have a means of supporting themselves besides the living off the Society. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That was said... Yaṣodānandana: They would be serious before... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Those things, the GBC made a resolution. Madhudviṣa: The resolutions that we made were wrong in that regard. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh? Madhudviṣa: The resolutions that we made were wrong. Prabhupāda rectified us. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In what regard? Madhudviṣa: We made a resolution that if a householder gets married, then he has to take care of his wife for the rest of his life till he takes sannyāsa. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, Prabhupāda corrected that.
Madhudviṣa: Yeah. So that resolution was wrong. And also the resolution about the women and the children coming to the temple, not accepting them, that was also wrong. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So now what's the point?
Madhudviṣa: So now they're rectified. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So now what is the point? Madhudviṣa: I'm just saying that we should have a more practical understanding of this, of our attitude towards the whole situation. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's why Prabhupāda corrected us.