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Women's Protection Prevents Social Degradation, Bhagavad Gita Science Not Sectarian

📅 April 30, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 34 min
True understanding of Bhagavad-gita requires recognizing the eternal soul's transmigration beyond temporary bodily concerns.
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Prabhupāda: Women should be taken care of—as daughter, as wife, as mother. Bās. No freedom. Then prostitution.

Then spoil the whole thing. Unwanted children, contraceptive, abortion. Very dangerous. In our society there are girls.

They should live separately. They should be given full engagement, taken care of. No mixing. Then it will be spoiled.

Both of them will be... We see big, big workers, sannyāsīs. Madhudvisa fell victim. The example is given: fire and butter.

[laughs] You cannot say that the butter will not melt even in fire. Woman is like fire, and man is like butter. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The butter should be kept cool. Prabhupāda: Yes. In a cool refrigerator, cool-headed. As soon as come in contact with the fire, agitate.

The example is given. In Indian... Up to our time, restriction was very strict. Now it is slackened. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Now you see boys and girls freely mixing here, in India. Prabhupāda: Without coeducation there is no college. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In American universities they have co-living.

The bathrooms are the same bathroom now. They don't even have men's bathroom and women's toilet.

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