Prabhupada never asked George Harrison to join the Temple. Instead Prabhupada encouraged George to offer his own abilities and talents

Cyndi Lauper is are smart girl and was not going to continue the experience of female repression her mother went through.

Sadly she meet some young inexperienced ISKCON devotees.

Such devotees foolishly tried to tell her they will arrange her marriage to a devotee and she does not have to do anything.

They told her to just surrender and let senior devotees do the thinking for her, this was the fanatical 1980 where most devotees were under 35 years old.

In her book she reveals so many attemtps to control her life as you see as you read on.

However, Prabhupada never did that over bearing preaching with George Harrison, by trying to force him to live in the Temple under Temple rules and always telling him what to do.

No, Prabhupada never did that.

What these immature devotees did was against Prabhupada's teachings and that is why she left.

Prabhupada never asked George Harrison to join the Temple.

Instead Prabhupada encouraged George to offer his own abilities and talents at a pace he was comfortable with.

In the article Cyndi was sick of seeing the suppressed and arrogent control of women's rights

The devotees in this book presented themselves as dictatorial that only made women feel inferior and not good enough to offer their own abilities or have their own opinion.

She explains it well and because of this discrimination against women by ISKCON, she saw the repression and the stagnation it caused because it denied self expression.

A husband and wife should worship Krishna together "as equals," serving each other in the mood of reciprocation and NEVER a one-sided slave mentality, that all women are meant to serve their husbands with a out question and do as they are told by them!!

The man should never demand service from a women or wife and talk down to the women with some nonsense superiority complex.

In this age everyone is lower than sudra so the standards of Satya, Treta and Dvapara yugas and most of the Manu samhita do NOT apply in this Kali-yuga.

If ISKCON wants success then women must be treated as equals in many cases except for the male position of Sanyas or Swami but can become Guru if qualified.

But there are differences between a male and female material bodies.

Because of the material body, certain positions we must follow like women give birth to children and protect women and children because by nature most women are not as strong as men.

The bottom line we are all spirit souls and are not the material bodily vessel or container we are in.

In this life we have a male material body and the next life one may have a female material body.

But in the presents of Krishna all jiva souls are female but can play many parts in the Spiritual World.

Cyndi Lauper and choir sings "True Colours" at the Utah Hare Krishna Temple USA