Can a Woman be Brahmana without a Brahmana husband?

12-31-1999, 07:11 AM

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
> Thus I fully accept Mother Kunti as a siksa guru of mine but it does not
> at all depend upon her being a brahmana.
This I find so important to implement. Without this mentality, the
varnasrama system is simply scaring.
If our position in society destined by our body becomes more important
than the qualities we work under, I fear that a impersonalistic system will
be the result. That is not Daivi-varnasrama is it?
I cannot understand why we would have to keep people back from performing
certain activities, since they will automatically be kept back by their own
abilities. Just like a man cannot breastfeed, but he can still be a kind
father.
As far as I can understand (which I agree may be little) the important
point is that noone is pushed to be something they are not. And why should
they try to transgress their own nature, if their needs are provided for?
However if the socalled top of society neglects their duties and simply
lives on their privileges, noone will want to be in the bottom, and then the
leaders will need to commit violence in order to keep their power.
Whenever I read of varnasrama-leaders in the Srimad Bhagavatam, they are
very much loved by their subjects.
This ruling with love does not seem to come easy to us in this age,
especially since we all have a long history of being supressed by
materialistic leaders.

What is going on in modern society of today is that women are often pushed
to feel bad about being simply mothers and wifes. That is another kind of
violence, which I have also seen in ISKCON. But why jump into the other
ditch and deny them the abilities and qualities they actually posess?
I mean why should a educated person not use her education for Krishna?

Instead of all this focusing on holding back I would appreciate the
creation of actual training for our young people, so that they can take care
of themselves according to their actual different natures. As far as I can
see, practically this is the biggest problem we have at present.
Then maybe there will be hope, that we can see our grandchildrens children
growing up in selfsufficient villages, with proper schoolingfacilities and
qualified teachers. Yes it could certainly be nice to sit as an old
granmother not in an impersonal and humiliating old age home being forced to
take drugs but together with familymembers and guests seeing the peaceful
cows and hearing the qualified nonenvious brahmanapriests singing hymns in
the temple.

A happy New Year to all of you!
Please accept my humble obeisances.
My Cristmas holiday is over so I want to thank you for giving your valuable
association, increasing my appreciation for Srila Prabhupadas books and
tolerating this fool. Please forgive any inconvenience I might have caused
anyone here with my neophyte mentality.

ys. Gunamani d.d.