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From: Shyamasundara Prabhu (ACBSP) to ISKCON India News and Discussion
To: “ISKCON Prabhupada Disciples”
Date: May 24, 2012 5:00:00 PM GMT+05:30

This is a CNN news clip about recent controversial research done by 2 (female?) researchers at university of Pennsylvania that shows that despite all the advantages that women have gotten from feminism that they are significantly less happy than men. Now if the feminists could only figure out a way to legislate gender equity for happiness. (-:

Of course we all know why women, according to feminist mythology, are less happy than men –its the men’s fault. Maybe if women can’t figure out how to be as happy as men they can erase the happiness gender gap by making the men as miserable as they are. Then there would be gender misery equity!

All kidding aside how can these persons expect to be happy if they go against the Krsna teachings in the Gita regarding prescribed duties in BG 3.35 and 18.47? Just as communism totally failed because it is based on unreality, at the cost of 10′s of millions of lives, its offspring feminism is also poised to fail at who knows what cost to society when it finally runs its course.

These are important things to consider if ISKCON is to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s desire to establish Varna Ashrama dharma, because almost all of our members come from this feminist dominated society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXeszLlTX5E&feature=related

ht: Shyamasundara Prabhu

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Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu on hermeneutics:

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Because compliance with the U.S. Affordable Care Act would require them to offer free contraception on their plans: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11720706-franciscan-university-drops-student-health-insurance-plan-over-birth-control-mandate-costs?lite

Are any ISKCON institutions that are not specifically temples facing this problem?

Sociologist Charles Murray begins his new book Coming Apart with a description of American culture prior to Nov 22, 1963:

ON THIS THURSDAY, November 21, television’s prime-time lineup included The Flinstones, The Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons, Perry Mason, and The Perry Como Show, but it was the fourteenth-rated show, Dr. Kildare, that made Time magazine’s recommended viewing. The story that week involved a pregnant unmarried teen who had gotten an abortion. She was so psychologically shattered by the experience that even Dr. Kildare couldn’t help. He had to refer her to a psychiatrist in another CBS program, The Eleventh Hour, for an episode that would air a week later.

She shouldn’t have gotten pregnant in the first place, of course. Getting pregnant without being married was wrong, and if a girl did get pregnant then she and the boyfriend who had gotten her in that fix were supposed to get married. If she didn’t get married, she should put the baby up for adoption. These were conventional views shared across the political spectrum. As of 1963, Americans continued to obey those norms with remarkable consistency. The percentage of births to single women, known as “the illegitimacy ratio,” had been rising worrisomely among Negroes (the only respectful word for referring to African Americans in 1963). But among whites, the illegitimacy ratio was only 3 percent, where it had been throughout the century.[1]

Today, as per the U.S. Center for Disease Control web page titled “Fast Stats: Unmarried Childbearing”,

“Percent of all births to unmarried women: 41.0%”[2]

End Notes

[1] Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960 – 2010 (New York: Crown Publishing, 2012) 4.
[2] US Center for Disease Control, “FASTATS: Unmarried Childbearing”, 30 Nov 2011, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 13 May 2012 <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm>.

In a lecture, Srila Prabhupada once explained that he often used the word mudha, or its English equivalent, “fool,” because Krishna Himself uses it throughout the Gita.

Although hogs, dogs, camels and asses are mentioned in the Bhagavatam only once together, they constitute another, derisive moniker Srila Prabhupada liberally and frequently applied to the general populace. Among other things, this means that a faithful follower of Srila Prabhupada will also adopt the same confrontational attitude toward modern materialistic society.

Others who are attached to materialistic society cannot adopt Srila Prabhupada’s attitude, because attachment to matter is mutually exclusive of attachment to spirit, just as light and darkness are mutually exclusive. Thus we find that devotees who put themselves forward as followers of Srila Prabhupada but who don’t care that much for what he represents almost never criticize the materialists. Fools, hogs, dogs, camels, and asses are conspicuous in their speech by their absence.

That is one difference between a true follower of Prabhupada and his so-called follower.