Dear Payonidhi Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All gories to you and your seva to Srila Prabhupada.
I understand from your statement that Kusakrata Prabhu authored Sri Narasimha Palana Prarthana, not that he translated it into English, correct?
The second inquiry I was going to make is, do you have any relevant quote or statement from Srila Prabhupada regarding married ladies in ISKCON working or not? And what about those ladies who are non-temple resident who are professionals, for instance, medical doctors.
Your aspiring servant,
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dear .......... Swami
Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Kusakrata Prabhu wrote these prayers sanskrit and translation they are all his words ,he wrote many beautiful prayers to Radha Krsna,Lord Caitanya and Mahaprabhu, they are all truely amazing ,sadly they have not been made into a book.All his own books are there with one sannyasi , whoes name I forgot.He also translated the Govinda lilamrta, which is the best translation I have ever read.But he was not eager to distribute this book.
Relevant quotes on married ladies working outside jobs by Srila Prabhupada.I would have to look for it in the Vedabase.
I did an internet search and found
http://www.gosai.com/tattva/71rochford.html some GBC discussion about womens position in ISKCON .This might interst you
http://www.bbt.info/information/toughones/kalakanthaonwomen. Here is a talk about many things with Srila Prabhupada at the end it talks about living outside the temple
http://krishna.org/must-all-devotees-live-in-the-temple-mp3-audio-m.... Working in an outside job often mean neglect of children and ones sadhana, in some cases women fall down with other men. However my wife works a goverment job, and also has a part time job.I am ashamed to say this but she makes
more money than I do on sankirtana. Often I have seen women in the temples having no real service and just trying to grap a husband even from the sannyasa and brahmacari asrama , thus we have had so many problems in ISKCON.Gurus marrying their female disciples or falling down with them.
In Vedic culture women are married and live outside the temples, with their husbands.For a sannyasi and Guru to be a match maker is another irregularity.I pray one day there will be temples for just brahmacaries and sannyasis and varnaprasthas in ISKCON, no women allowed to live in the asrama this was the standard of all past acaryas and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada.Srila Prabhupada allowed women in the asrama, and created brahmacari asrama.As far as outside jobs , if women are strong in their character and KC why not.This is the west , hardly anyone can afford both not working.If grhasthas give up to 50 % of their income then they should make sure every penny is used for spreading KC, not to go in someones pocket.Who can afford giving so much? But service of the grhasthas to help maintain the sannyasis.However for a sannyasi to have to depend on grhasthas donations is very sad. if someone flies first class etc.better is if a sannyasi writes some books and sells them to maintain himself.Those books should be fully KC.I have given you my humble opinion.
your servant
Payonidhi das
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