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Marriage Fidelity And Chastity, Women's Respectability In Vedic Culture

📅 January 5, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 8 min
Without saṁskāra and dharmic conduct, modern marriage collapses into theatrical quarrels with no lasting fruit.
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Prabhupāda: I was very much satisfied. New Vrindaban. Who wrote it? Somebody went there in my New Vrindaban.

Indian man: I think Mr. Dvari. That I can find out.

Prabhupāda: [Transl. So all of you kindly make some propaganda in favour of this movement.] The people are misled. They do not know. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum [SB 7.5.31].

You are a brāhmaṇa-paṇḍita. Pāṇḍiyā means...

Indian man: Yeah, brāhmaṇa. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's from Benares.

Prabhupāda: Pandiya means paṇḍita. Brāhmaṇa. [Transl. Brāhmaṇa means paṇḍita or learned. What is the use if a brāhmaṇa is foolish? He follows proper code of conduct. Even if he is a fool, illiterate, he is righteous.] Illiterate.

Indian man: Actually if a man is literate but if there is no saṁskāra, I can't say he is better man... If saṁskāra is there and no education, then still I call he is better man. The man without saṁskāra is nothing.

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