Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Even a brāhmaṇa would not accept foodstuff prepared by his wife

"Even a brahmana would not accept foodstuff prepared by his wife, because woman is considered sudra"

- Swami Prabhupada (ISKCON Founder)

Source : https://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1976/aug/new_mayapur_(french_farm)/august/02/1976-1

[Even a brāhmaṇa would not accept foodstuff prepared by his wife, because woman is considered śūdra. The woman, when she becomes the wife of a brāhmaṇa, then she is called brāhmaṇī, but she's not offered brahminical culture. She remains as śūdra. So therefore a strict brāhmaṇa does not accept foodstuff prepared by his wife. Still there are in U.P. The wife will arrange for cooking, and he'll sit down and cook dāl, cāpāṭis. Then he will eat, and whatever remains, that is there, that will be taken by her. But he will not take foodstuff cooked by his even wife. And if there are several brāhmaṇas, so each one of them will cook his own food.]

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