"You doubted my faith and integrity, that's why I went heavy on the phone"
Aka when a woman disagrees with a male, he beats her up.
Aka prabhupad saying that women like men who are expert at rape in the 4th canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Chauvinism, Patriarchy and Misogyny.
Prabhupāda had old british-indian conceptions of gender, so that's that. But he got thousands to leave drugs for good, introduced a philosophy that (in its purest form) can actually hold up to scrutiny, and spent his whole life doing whatever he could to allievate global suffering.
Those comments exist, and I do not justify them. But one has to look at the effort. If you were born then, you would also have such conceptions. A guru, in nara-lila, also takes on the position of a human. He spent his whole life trying his best to be sincere, and he really was sincere. That is what matters. The 0.0001% of colonial-minded conceptions do not matter. Moreover, Prabhupāda is a special case because he belongs to the Sarasvata Parivara (or sarasvata-gaudiya splinter-sect, which has now for the most part been taken over by bickering idiots, criminals, usurpers, etc since 1977; and had historically also deviated very much), but he preached so much that it is impossible to ignore and not respect even for the people who were blanket-labelled apasampradayic by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and whose (original) gaudiya paramparas are now eclipsted & fading away in the face of the now-corrupt ISKCON, Gaudiya Matha, etc.
(P.S. I am neither an ISKCONite nor a Rtvik-ist. But you cannot disregard the efforts and successes and character of a man because of a few comments. By that logic, we are all demons because we are not beyond human nature either.)
Aka when a woman disagrees with a male, he beats her up.
Aka prabhupad saying that women like men who are expert at rape in the 4th canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Chauvinism, Patriarchy and Misogyny.
Those comments exist, and I do not justify them. But one has to look at the effort. If you were born then, you would also have such conceptions. A guru, in nara-lila, also takes on the position of a human. He spent his whole life trying his best to be sincere, and he really was sincere. That is what matters. The 0.0001% of colonial-minded conceptions do not matter. Moreover, Prabhupāda is a special case because he belongs to the Sarasvata Parivara (or sarasvata-gaudiya splinter-sect, which has now for the most part been taken over by bickering idiots, criminals, usurpers, etc since 1977; and had historically also deviated very much), but he preached so much that it is impossible to ignore and not respect even for the people who were blanket-labelled apasampradayic by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and whose (original) gaudiya paramparas are now eclipsted & fading away in the face of the now-corrupt ISKCON, Gaudiya Matha, etc.
(P.S. I am neither an ISKCONite nor a Rtvik-ist. But you cannot disregard the efforts and successes and character of a man because of a few comments. By that logic, we are all demons because we are not beyond human nature either.)
Hare Krsna.