Page 54 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

We have demonstrated above how all the comments Srila
Prabhupada has made about “material issues” are based on
bona fide statements made by Kapiladeva, the incarnation
of Godhead, Kunti devi and other Vedic authorities. Can
Brahma das point out statements about “relative issues”
that Srila Prabhupada has made that are uniquely his
own opinion without reference to Vedic authority? In
Brahma das’ answer to the following question posed by a
lady devotee who is a member of ISKCON, he attempts to
do this.

“Question by the lady: ‘In Canto Four of Srimad
Bhagavatam Srila Prabhupada states that women like a
man who is expert at rape. Why would Srila Prabhupada
write this? This statement, even if it were true, does not help
the cause of bringing readers to Krishna consciousness.’”

Answer by Brahma das: “Srila Prabhupada did not always
use words that were appropriate to our frame of reference.
In this case I always felt that he used the word rape in
error. What Srila Prabhupada is saying in this purport is
that women are attracted to aggressive lovers. Rape means
something else entirely. Rape is defined as having sexual
intercourse with a person against their will. Indeed, how
does it make sense to say that a person wants something
that is against their will? Either way this statement about
what women are attracted to sexually is not absolute by
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