Women in Modern Society

Traditional social status of women

0:00Prabhupāda: ...they will not walk on the street. This was the system. Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them. Hm? Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them at all. That is... Rādhā-vallabha: You want lunch?

0:14Do you want some lunch, Śrīla Prabhupāda? If woman walks on the street then [s]he is not respectable.

Modern women in political leadership

0:25Now women are going to offices.

0:29Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Now they are doing everything, even leading nations.

0:33Prabhupāda: Nation is also doing that.

0:37Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: In President Carter's new cabinet he included a woman as a secretary now, as a minister, for the first time, I think. Hari-śauri: In England also they have a woman Prime Minister for the first time.

0:51She's a leader of the opposition. Hari-śauri: No, she was the Prime Minister as well. She's the opposition now.

Women serving in police forces

0:59Prabhupāda: Woman is acting as police in England. Rādhā-vallabha: In Los Angeles there was this one man at the temple that we suspected that he had a gun. So we called the police.

1:13It is a difficult job for police when someone has a gun. They always send the best men. So a car pulled up and a woman got out, and she crept up on the man to arrest him, and the men stayed in the car.

1:38Everything is becoming a farce. [break] What is that?

1:43Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: These are just some letters I'm sending with Rādhā-vallabha to Los Angeles.

Adding illustrations to Krishna book

1:54Rādhā-vallabha: When we reprint the Kṛṣṇa book trilogy this year, the hardbound, I was wondering, could we put more pictures in the second and third volumes? Not changing, but additional.

Production costs and retail pricing

2:08Prabhupāda: Why increase cost? Rādhā-vallabha: I don't think it would be that much. The first volume has over sixty pictures, and the second one only has thirty-two and the third only has twenty-four. It will incr...

2:26Anything we do will increase the cost, but not so significant. Few cents.

2:41We were thinking that the Kṛṣṇa books were originally printed many, many years ago, and since then we have a lot of nice paintings of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes that we could put in.

2:51If you can give without increasing price, there is no harm. Or for this cents.

Announcement of prasadam being ready

3:05Let us.

3:06Jagadīśa: Prasādam is ready. Rādhā-vallabha: If it's only an insignificant increase then we'll put some in.

3:14Prabhupāda: But you don't increase price. Rādhā-vallabha: Oh, to the temples. No, to the customer. Rādhā-vallabha: Yes. That's no problem. Prasāda ready?

3:26Pālikā: Yes. [end]