Oct 31, 2013 — EUROPE (SUN) — … never be attached to not doing your duty (Bhagavad-gita 2.47)
"According to the rules and regulations that are mentioned in the Agamas, women can faithfully render devotional service to Lord Visnu while remaining devoted to their husband, and sudras who have taken initiation can also worship Lord Visnu." (Hari Bhakti Vilas 1.195)
Regarding the recent text about the unhappy affairs in the life of a married female GBC…
There is another side to the story. While everyone is giving Dina Sarana Mataji a shoulder to cry on, no one thinks to ask how this situation came to pass. If there is a house fire, the inspectors from the Fire Department will go through the debris to search for the cause. If a plane falls out of the sky they search for the black box and try to find out the cause. If there is a road accident, the police study the scene and try to determine what happened and why. For everything there is a cause so in the same way, what is the cause of this tragedy?
Now I am by no means trying to besmirch the character of Dina Sarana Mataji, but it seems that this whole episode has come about because she failed in her Stri Dharma. That instead of faithfully serving and taking care of her husband she was seduced away from performing her prescribed duties by the GBC of Germany, Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu who wanted her, not a man, to personally assist him. She thus started to focus her attention on the needs and desires of Ravindra Swarupa Prabhu – all in the name of Krsna Consciousness and devotional service mind you – but gradually over the course of time she became consumed by such duties outside of the home and her husband was left in the cold, seldom seeing his wife. So naturally some other woman saw an opportunity here to fill in where the wife was neglectful.
(Has anyone noticed that Ravindra Swarupa dasa only likes to work with women? There was also the scandal of him appointing Hari Ballabha Mataji as his representative in Germany, and he put her on the PAMHO GBC discussions forum. But all along she had secretly taken initiation from Narayana Maharaja and was passing all GBC correspondence directly to NM.)
Prescribed duties should never be renounced. If one gives up his prescribed duties because of illusion, such renunciation is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome or out of fear of bodily discomfort is said to have renounced in the mode of passion. Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation. (Bhagavad-gita 18.7-8)
This is not the first time this has happened: Kusha Mataji has admitted that this is the same reason that her 25+ year marriage to Sruta-kirti Prabhu broke up. She was encouraged by the Women's Ministry and other feminist forces in ISKCON to take up the role of Temple President of Honolulu – again, all in the name of devotional service and Krsna Consciousness. This took up most of her time and energy, leaving nothing for her prime prescribed duty of Stri Dharma. She thus grossly neglected her husband. Another woman saw that the husband was neglected and she made it clear that she was ready, willing and able to fulfill such duties, and they got married after he divorced Kusha Mataji who had already symbolically divorced her husband by giving up her prescribed duties.
It is better to engage in one's own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Duties prescribed according to one's nature are never affected by sinful reactions. Every endeavor is covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work born of his nature, O son of Kunti, even if such work is full of fault. (Bhagavad-gita 18.47-48)
To me the fault is clear: it is shared by the persons who seduced these senior women into giving up their prescribed duties and to the women involved for giving them up.
But we all know that is not politically correct, so instead the neglected husband will be blamed. Why? Because he is the man.
Yhs
Jambavan dasa
