“Women are by nature endowed with many artistic tendencies, and from the Vedic age we find that high grade women and girls were highly qualified in sixty-four arts. Srimate Radharani was fully qualified in those arts, and therefore, by Her super-excellent transcendental qualities, she could charm Krsna who is the charmer of the three worlds. One of the principle gopis was Syama dasi, and you are supposed to follow in the footsteps of Syama dasi. I am very much pleased to note that you are feeling happiness in Krsna consciousness activities along with your good husband. Please remain in that spirit and chant Hare Krsna sixteen round regularly, both husband and wife, develop New Vrndavana. Next summer if you hold Janmastami gorgeously, as I have already suggested to Kirtanananda Maharaja, surely I shall go there”
(SPL to Syama dasi, 23rd Febuary, 1970)
“I beg to acknowledge receipt of you letter dated 12 April 1970, and the information is very encouraging. The more you worship the Deity very nicely, all of you will feel very nice and peaceful spiritually. Therefore, this point should be very much carefully attended. Similarly, in London Yamuna is also doing nicely, and all the wives of our students should be trained up for Deity worship and cooking, and when possible they should go on sankirtana party with their husbands and others”
(SPL to Hamsaduta, 18th April,1970)
“I am very glad to know that you are engaged as pujari there. Try to learn this art of arcana very nicely. You can consult in this connection Himavati, Yamuna, and also Silavati. I wish that all our girl devotees be expert in arcana and cooking. The temple and altar should be always very clean and decorated with flowers and incense. We shall touch the Deity altar and Deity in very clean condition, after taking bath and washing mouth nicely. Practice washing hands after eating and wash with soap and water after toilet. Cleanliness is next to godliness, so this point should be very carefully observed, then you will advance very quickly to the perfectional stage of Krsna consciousness.
(SPL to Kancanbala, April, 1970)
“Regarding ‘swamis’ and ‘swaminies’ you have been misinformed. Among my disciples there is only one Swami or sannyasi, but there is no ‘swaminie’. Women is never offered sannyasa in the Vedic culture. Up to vanaprastha stage the woman may remain with her husband as assistant or friend without sex relation, and when a man takes sannyasa the woman has no connection with him. I am very sorry to inform you that there are some indian ‘swamis’ in this country who are living with so-called ‘swaminies’ but so far we are concerned we follow strictly the Vedic principles. All our student are following the regulative principles as mentioned in Section 3, paragraph 2”é
(SPL to Nevatiaji, July 6th, 1970)