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to follow it.” Again Prabhupada is indicating a particular
group of women who are fallen.

In the purport to SB 1.10.30, there is further validation that
Prabhupada is speaking about fallen women. He writes:

“By engagement in the service of the Lord, the designative
disqualifications are removed, and as pure souls they
become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God. The
fallen girls under the clutches of Bhaumasura sincerely
prayed to Sri Krishna for their deliverance, and their
sincerity of purpose made them at once pure by virtue of
devotion. The Lord therefore accepted them as His wives,
and thus their lives became glorified. Such auspicious
glorification was still more glorified when the Lord played
with them as the most devoted husband.”

In conclusion we must recognize that Srila Prabhupada
did not give a personal opinion based on 19th century
cultural conditioning that he may have experienced in
India. Prabhupada was a liberated soul, who strictly
repeated the words of his Spiritual Master Bhaktisiddanda
Saraswati Thakur Maharaja, who strictly repeated the
words of the previous Vaisnava acharyas, who strictly
repeated the words of Lord Krishna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Prabhupada had complete faith
in the words and prophecies of his spiritual master, and

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