Page 16 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

world. The living entity, in a marginal position, may be
bewildered by the material energy, but does not have to
be eternally conditioned by it. The material conditioning
is not the eternal nature of the living entity, therefore it
can be purified. Materialistic women and men can both
become pure devotees by following the process of Krishna
Consciousness under the guidance of a pure devotee guru
and free themselves of the influence of the material energy.

Brahma das wants to demonstrate that Srila Prabhupada’s
statements about women are not absolute or essential
teachings of the Vaisnava tradition. He states, “Taken at
face value do his controversial comments on the nature of
women conform to either of these definitions of the word
absolute?” (absolute means complete; perfect; free from
limitation) Following Bhagavad-gita 2.16 devotees have
defined absolute as that which is satah or true in all times
and circumstances.

Let us analyze Srila Prabhupada’s statements correctly
without an agenda to debunk them, rather to understand
the truth. Every word Srila Prabhupada has spoken is
shastrically correct. It is only “our conditioning” that
hinders us from understanding this basic fact. Since Srila
Prabhupada has repeated the shastric statements, his
words are true in all times and circumstances. We will
demonstrate this fact.

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