Page 55 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

any means. In this case, and in many others, I personally
feel that his editors, in a spirit of humble service to him,
might have done him a disservice by not bringing to his
attention the negative side of some of the controversial
things that he wrote about women.”

Both the woman devotee who asks the question and
Brahma das who attempts an answer have misunderstood
the validity of Srila Prabhupada’s statements based on the
shastric points Narada Muni is making in the allegorical
story of King Puranjan (that Narada relates to King
Pracinabarhisat). King Puranjan says to a beautiful,
young woman,

“Certainly your glancing upon me today has very much
agitated my mind. Your smile, which is full of shyness but
at the same time lusty, is agitating the most powerful cupid
within me. Therefore, O most beautiful, I ask you to be
merciful upon me.” (SB 4.25.30)

Purport: “Everyone has lusty desires within, and as soon
as one is agitated by the movement of a beautiful woman’s
eyebrows, the cupid within immediately throws his
arrow at the heart. Thus one is quickly conquered by the
eyebrows of a beautiful woman. When one is agitated by
lusty desires, his senses are attracted by all kinds of visaya
(enjoyable things like sound, touch, form, smell and taste).
These attractive sense objects oblige one to come under
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