Jadurani : In his lecture that night was about how all women should be married. “When I was a householder,” he said, “my friend had a daughter who he wanted to marry, but the girl said, ‘I am not going to be the slave of any man.'” Prabhupada said to her, “Marriage is not slavery for the woman, it is grand protection.” Then he said, “There is no necessity of the brahmana’s thread for a woman because she has to follow her husband. If her husband is a brahmana then she automatically becomes a brahmana by following his vows. And if her husband is not a brahmana,what is the use of her becoming a brahmana?“
Then Srila Prabhupada pointed to a painting that I did and said, “Just like Rama has a sacred thread but Sita doesn’t, but still we say Sita-Rama. She is the energy. She is first, Sita-Rama. We know so much about Krishna, and we hardly know anything about Radharani but still we say, Radha-Krishna.” Prabhupada was telling us that, “You’re not going to get a thread, but it doesn’t matter.” Then he said, “Don’t become implicated, just remain pure, and get yourselves married.” That was the thrust of his lecture.
