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[Rteacher]

I'm baack! (as the terminator of misconceptions and false characterizations.)

First, my use of the term "freshwomen" was more-or-less facetious. I don't advocate its use but just used it to make the point that all living beings other than God are female in the traditional (unfeminist) sense that we were all created to increase the pleasure of the (male) Creator. Actually, the whole material (Mother) nature is considered feminine - although many people - male and female - try to imitate God by lording it over others.

The traditional Vedic roles for males and females in a spiritually progressive culture are based on cooperation aimed at gradually transcending the material bodily conception of life. Generally the husband acts as a spiritual master in relation to his wife, but in cases where the wife is clearly more spiritually qualified, she may act as the spiritual master.

Pejorative definitions aside, the Hare Krishna movement is a cult in the positive sense denoted by this dictionary entry:

1. a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.
"the cult of St. Olaf"

More specifically, it is the cult of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is considered by Gaudiya (Bengali) Vaishnavas (devotees) the incarnation of Krishna as His own devotee (in the mood of Radharani) whose mission was to spread the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra throughout India over five centuries ago.

The founder-acharya (spiritual guide) of the modern Hare Krishna movement, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came in the line of disciplic succession from Lord Chaitanya and was spiritually empowered to spread the sankirtana movement all around the world.

The cult of devotional service to the Supreme Person is called bhakti yoga. While many scholars and Hindus consider the Hare Krishna movement to be a branch of Hinduism, Prabhupada considered Hindu to be a term that referred to a hodgepodge of different belief systems and stressed that the sankirtana movement was nonsectarian - and not just meant for so-called Hindus or Indians.

Although more than a few hippies who joined the Hare Krishna movement reverted to bad habits or even disgraceful/demonic behavior that led to much negative publicity, the pure devotional character of its founder as an ambassador of Vedic culture has been widely appreciated among scholars.
http://www.prabhupadaconnect.com/Prabhupadas_Books.html
http://backtogodhead.in/if-the-hare-krsna-movement-is-a-cult-im-out-of-a-job-by-satyaraja-dasa/