Vedic Feminism

There are proponents of vedic feminism who propogate equal rights on the basis of soul. In other words, since we are all eternal souls conditioned in this temporary material body either male or female, ultimately they claim equal rights on the spiritual platform. 

In a spiritual society, women and men have different duties to perform. Let's analyse this. A woman may be a book distributor, or preacher or pujari etc. But her identity is wife and mother. A man always engaged in service of Krsna and women are meant to help her husband in his service. She can do various services, still she is a woman.

Soul has a spiritual body, (sva rupa) either male or female. In the spiritual world, you will find everything in the material world, but in relationship with Krsna which is absent in this mortal world. Here the mentality is "am the lord or master or enjoyer of everything around" this is called false ego. 

Under the spell of illusion, living entities are trying to be lords of all they survey, but actually they are dominated by the material energy of the Lord. The Lord is the master of material nature, and the conditioned souls are under the stringent rules of material nature. Unless one understands these bare facts, it is not possible to achieve peace in the world either individually or collectively. This is the sense of Kssna consciousness: Lord Krsna is the supreme predominator, and all living entities, including the great demigods, are His subordinates. One can attain perfect peace only in complete Krsna consciousness. (Srila Prabhupada's purport to Bhagavad Gita as it is 5.29)

To claim that all souls are equal is mayavada. All the souls are part and parcels of Lord Krsna they share the same nature in quality and different individuality. 

Consider this example, a father may have 10 children, all of them children of the same father, having different individuality. Similarly we are all children of God, yet we have our own individuality. We are individual separate person who have different identity. Lord Krsna has kindly given as minute independence or free will using this we can either identity ourselves in relation to Krsna or Maya (His illusory potency) if we identify ourselves with Krsna, as his fractions then we are in reality otherwise if we identify ourselves with this mortal body, and connections related with this temporary body, we are in illusion. Because the body is non permanent after this body dies what will happen to the identity? It's all gone along with the body. 

Identities of the body are constantly changing, someone may be daughter of someone later they change their identity to husband or bachelor or family men or retired person. You (soul) is the constant person who is witnessing the changes of body and subsequent change in identity. Since you are conditioned, you cannot do anything other than witnessing. 

If by chance, the conditioned soul get  unbound by Guru, sadhu and sastra. Then we come our senses, spiritual senses. Otherwise we are even ignorant of the existence of soul. The conditioned souls in illusion are in false identification with mental platform. They identify themselves as mind or heart. Heart is the sitting place for the soul. Mind under the clutches of illusion is against the self interest of the soul. Just like the haunted person, who acts against his own self interest. Because we are ignorant of our real self interest. 

na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ
durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ
andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās
te ’pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ

(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.5.31)

One knows the truth, although conditioned within the body is liberated. Jivan mukta. He is not affected by the modes of material nature. His actions doesn't lead him to bondage in the future body. 

A liberated person is not anxious to constantly changing his position and occupation. Male to female or vice versa, these arise due to bhoga tyaga (fluctuating sense enjoyment resultant renunciation). 

One should first, with all conviction, believe in the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and without making efforts to realize Him by speculative philosophy, one should prefer to hear about Him from the Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā and later from the text of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. One should hear such discourses from a person Bhāgavatam and not from the professional man, or from the karmī, jñānī or yogī. That is the secret of learning the science. One does not need to be in the renounced order of life; he can remain in his present condition of life, but he must search out the association of a bona fide devotee of the Lord and hear from him the transcendental message of the Lord with faith and conviction. That is the path of the paramahaṁsa recommended herein. Amongst various holy names of the Lord, He is also called ajita, or one who can never be conquered by anyone else. Yet He can be conquered by the paramahaṁsa path, as practically realized and shown by the great spiritual master Lord Brahmā. Lord Brahmā has personally recommended this paramahaṁsa-panthāḥ in his own words as follows:

jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva

jīvanti san-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām

sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhir

ye prāyaśo 'jita jito 'py asi tais tri-lokyām

Lord Brahmā said, "O my Lord Kṛṣṇa, a devotee who abandons the path of empiric philosophical speculation aimed at merging in the existence of the Supreme and engages himself in hearing Your glories and activities from a bona fide sādhu, or saint, and who lives an honest life in the occupational engagement of his social life, can conquer Your sympathy and mercy even though You are ajita, or unconquerable." (SB 10.14.3) That is the path of the paramahaṁsas, which was personally followed by Lord Brahmā and later recommended by him for attaining perfect success in life.

Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.18 purport