Page 49 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

A man should not be attached to a woman, nor should
a woman be attached to a man. Both man and woman
should be attached to the service of the Lord. Then there
is the possibility of liberation from material entanglement
for both of them.”

There is a narrow area that Srila Prabhupada delineates in
the above passage where men and women can associate
together for advancing Krishna consciousness. Outside of
this narrow area all the precautionary statements about
materialistic men and women are valid and cannot be
considered as mere relative facts of the material world that
are not essential to Krishna consciousness as Brahma das
wants to purport.

Kapiladeva continues, “A woman, therefore, should
consider her husband, her house and her children to be
the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her
death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for
the deer.” (SB 3.31.42)

Purport: “In these instructions of Lord Kapiladeva it is
explained that not only is woman the gateway to hell for
man, but man is also the gateway to hell for woman. A
man becomes attached to a woman because of her service,
her beauty and many other assets, and similarly, a woman
becomes attached to a man for his giving her a nice place

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