“So I am very glad that you both, husband and wife, are executing the mission of Lord Caitanya so nicely and faithfully. Please continue to act like that and certainly Lord Caitanya will bestow all His blessings and power upon you. Personally I am so much engladdened that the pairs of young boys and girls whom I have placed in householder life are doing nicely in the Western world. When Lord Caitanya delivered Jagai and Madhai He was also a householder, but when Jagai and Madhai were actually reclaimed, His wife, Visnupriya, was not there. But in this case and in many other cases also, I find that my disciples combined together, husband and wife, are doing this preaching work so nicely.
So I am especially proud how my householder disciples are preaching Lord Caitanya’s Mission. This is a new things in the history of the sankirtana movement. In India all the acharyas and their descendants later on acted only from the man’s side. Their wives were at home because that is the systems from old times that women are not required to go out. But in Bhagavad-gita we find that women are also equally competent like men in the matter of Krsna consciousness movement. Please therefore carry on these missionary activities, and prove it by practical example that there is no bar for anyone in the matter of preaching work for Krsna consciousness.”
(SPL to Himavati, December 20th, 1969)