# SANNYASA ## Accepting Sannyasa ==67-03 "A female is never awarded the order of sannyasa. Because a female is never considered independent and sannyasa was never awarded to any female in the past by great acaryas like Sankara, Ramanuja etc.== The female *sannyasis* are to be immediately understood as pretenders or prostitutes. In India they have organized so many organizations where especially young females are maintained to attract rich women-hunters who pretend to pose as righteous in the society. This is the Age of Kali which plunders away spiritual sense of the human beings and it is only the Divine Grace of Lord Caitanya who can protect us from all these dangerous pitfalls. You were not agitated by unfavorable criticism and yet you chanted Hare Krsna *maha-mantra* and that is the way of chanting Hare Krsna. I thank you very much for your forbearance. I am very glad to note that you can know the foolishness of modem society in spiritual understanding and I thank you very much for your appreciation of my association. This association is disciplic and as such all thanks are due to Lord Krsna who infuses His powers through the bona fide disciplic succession." ([[letters/1967/670314_brahmanandab|Brahmananda, 14 March, 1967]])