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          It makes an urgent appeal to members to practise Kṛṣṇa
          consciousness without striking compromises with materialistic
          society. It shows how such compromises harm, hamper, and
          slow us down and how it could even eventually derail our
          movement.
          While containing a wealth of advice on how female members of
          our movement might make their lives successful, the relevance
          of this book is by no means restricted to Vaiṣṇavīs alone.

          This book has answered questions that troubled me and put to
          rest a growing sense of disquiet that I had been experiencing
          as a result of what I observed around me.

          I urge those who are wary of picking up Women: Masters or
          Mothers?   to disabuse their minds of prejudice and preconceived
          notions, and to take a good, hard look at what it proposes.



                     Svayaṁ-rāseśvarī Devī Dāsī (LOK)
                         Vallabh Vidyanagar, India/USA

          I was raised in America and came of age during the rise of
          the women’s liberation movement and the sexual revolution.
          Luckily, I was too young to participate in all those so-called
          newfound freedoms, but unfortunately they did have an
          effect on my consciousness. I came across Śrīla Prabhupāda’s
          teachings quite late in my life, but it was not hard for me to
          see that Śrīla Prabhupāda was presenting the Absolute Truth. I
          could easily see that Kṛṣṇa had designed a template for a perfect
          society. Re-establishment of  varṇāśrama-dharma  seemed to
          be the best way to save society. His Holiness Bhakti Vikāsa
          Mahārāja has outlined so many reasons why this is true in his
          book Women: Masters or Mothers? It would benefit all devotees
          to read his book with an open mind and an open heart. ISKCON
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