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Answers:
a) Abortion
Abortion in any form and for
any reason, is bad and should be discouraged. However, Hindu
Dharma permits abortion in very exceptional cases, but there
is no case that can be quickly defended as an exceptional case.
One has to study scrupulously any special case before one can
call it a very rare and exceptional case.
b)
Disciplined and divinely protected men and women in the same
Ashram
With reference to your question
on unmarried men and women living together in the same Ashram,
we do not answer concerning other organisations, institutions,
Ashrams, but we refer only to our Ashram. Unmarried men and women
in our Ashram follow absolutely the principle of Brahmacharya
and abide by all codes of conduct dictated and determined by
all-absorbing love for the supreme divine Mother, Parashakti,
Parameshwari. All men in our Ashram look upon all women as direct
Manifestations of the all-seeing, all-pervading Divine Mother.
Moral lapses are not possible and unknown in the Ashram. Should
anyone feel unable to adhere strictly to the principle of Brahmacharya
and not be able to keep up his divine attitude to women as divine
Mother's incarnations, he is asked to leave the Ashram.
Omkarananda Ashram is a Sri
Vidya Ashram, where every lady, young or old, is adored as Divine
Mother, and not as a woman. With this well established attitude,
there is no question of sensual thoughts. Should however any
Ashramite feel attracted to the idea of marriage, he or she will
leave the Ashram.
c) Ask inmates of the Ashram
about their experience there.
See the Fourth
Supplement, printed as the last pages of this
Questions and Answers Text.
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