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                          Phalinī Devī Dāsī (ACBSP)
                                   India/USA

          Women: Masters or Mothers? called by the author a “tract,” is
          much more than just a religious pamphlet. It is a deep and
          thoroughly cogent treatise on the current social anomalies
          within ISKCON (mirroring the social aberrations of the Western
          world) and how these incongruities relate to and have arisen
          due to our members remaining too much influenced by
          Western society.
          His Holiness Bhakti Vikāsa Swami is not concerned with how
          he will be viewed for stating facts. He speaks courageously
          and  truthfully  about  the  unquestionable  presence  and
          pernicious effects of feminism within  ISKCON, the need for
          early marriage, the practicality of polygamy, the importance
          of shyness among women and their need for protection, the
          fact that Śrīla Prabhupāda never appointed women as temple
          presidents or GBC members, the dangers of co-education and
          worldly careers for women, and other such  hush-hush, hot
          topics that may arouse angry arguments but that nonetheless
          need to be addressed, discussed, and adopted in our society as
          part of fulfilling the other 50% of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission:
          daiva-varṇāśrama-dharma.
          Śrīla Prabhupāda did not want us to emulate the American
          (aka Western) way of life. He came to improve it, to change it,
          to replace American culture with Vedic culture. He wanted us
          to transcend the American way of life and to realize that we
          don’t belong in this world. Śrīla Prabhupāda states, “I am not
          in the world... just like I am in America... I am not adopting

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