Women are not their bodies

How can there be so very much scrutinizing, analyzing, questioning and responding, back and forth, simply on a bodily designation? To have every word of sastra analyzed towards or against women — it is so baffling and disturbing.

 

Why? Because I’ve searched on Vedabase the term “mlecchas.”

 

There are tons! Tons of derogatory statements in sastra made about mlecchas. For example: They are born in meat-eater families, they are unclean, unstandardized, they have no brain. They are untouchable. Srila Prabhupada even says traditionally sadhus will not even cross the ocean lest they become contaminated. “You do not know what is conservative. If I was conservative, then for a single moment I could not stay here. Immediately I would have gone.”

On and on, so many negative points about mlecchas and yavanas.

 

But do you see anyone going into major conversations spanning years about appointing gurus who were born in mleccha-yavana families?

 

Do you see anyone discussing ad-nauseum and taking apart Sanskrit words about which mlecchas are okay to become gurus and which not?

 

No! Because once someone becomes a devotee, THEY ARE NO LONGER THE BODY.

So how such a double standard just because our bodies happen to be female!