“Vedic idea is that woman should be always protected.”
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.51
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, May 13, 1973
“Widows of Vrindavan have led a life of poverty, isolation and exploitation after the death of their husbands. With no emotional and financial support they are left to live a life of destitution and poverty in the bylanes of Vrindavan.”
Instead of following Prabhupada, “vedic idea is that woman should be always protected.” (Los Angeles, May 13, 1973),
and do something about this human tragedy right in front of Vrindavan’s renowned temple gates, they spend millions to sue each other (ISKCON Mumbai vs ISKCON Bangalore).
Not that Vaishnavism is a welfare.org of feeding the poor, but isnt it a transcendental service and common sense to have the most important place of pilgrimage on this planet, Vrindavan Dham, properly managed – materially and spiritually?
Prabhupada, Mayapur, March 4, 1976: …Just like I was rebuking that toilet. This is so nasty, tamo-guna, and if I have no response to such tamo-guna place, that means I am also of that quality. Just like fire and fire, there is no reaction, but in fire and water there is reaction.
Between fire and fire there is no reaction, but fire and water there is reaction. Similarly, sattva-guna-sattva-guna, there is no reaction. Tamo-guna-tamo-guna there is no reaction. It is… In English it is called incompatible.
When different qualities, there is reaction, chemical reaction, acid and alkaline. Acid and acid, you mix; there is no reaction. But acid and alkaline, if you mix, there will be effervescence immediately. So karanam guna-sango asya sad-asad-janma-yonisu. If one is developing tamo-guna, then, if he becomes, he becomes a pig next life, there is no reaction.
He’ll be very glad that “I am pig,” “I am dog.” There is no reaction. But if one is sattva-guna, then he cannot tolerate. Immediately obnoxious: “Oh, such a nasty condition.” So I am very sorry there was no reaction in such nasty toilet room. And you are getting sacred thread, the quality of brahmana, sattva-guna. It is very regrettable. Nobody reacted.
The tragedy of a broken down melody
Neo-iskcon…the tragedy of a broken down melody it seems to be.
As we see, there is no real spiritual leadership, these gurus are mostly
only big wealthy rabbis and millionaires, who, like bankmanagers are only
interested in bank-balance and how they can knock out their opponents.
This is not Srila Prabhupada’s vision, and not his Bhaktivedanta mission.
We understand, where is much money, there is also much problem,
since where there is money there are also a lot of weed.