Can Women perform Kirtan in the temples during their periods

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Yesterday we found solutions of some question tos related to pure and impure state of ladies.
There are few more questions. Somebody told me that she is assigned a duty to sing Narsingha prayer daily. But then someone told her during periods, she can't sing that prayer. Some women asked me whether they should sing prayer of Lord Krishna or not in those days.
As the topic was going on, I remember this question. The thing is that we can recite Sree Narsingha prayer, but not in the temple. You can recite Narsingh pranam mantra, dasavtar, Lord Krishna kirtan. The only thing is that you don't have to go in front of altar.
Why is there such a rule?
See, the rules related to the temple are called Arachan and listening to discourse, giving lecture and performing Hari kirtan, this is called devotion.
In Arachan, we have to abide by vedic rules. But for Harinam Sree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu made us free from all these rules in ethology. In Arachan we have to follow all rules. Like if we are not brahmims ,then we cannot enter into a temple or if you have still not taken your diksha then also you can't enter into temple altar.
It doesn't matter what caste or creed you belong to if you have taken vaishnav diksha, then you are allowed to enter into the temple altar.
If a person is capable enough to enter a temple then he can allow others to to go to the temple, irrespective of his caste or creed, whether he is brahmin or shudra or belongs to even lower caste, even sanyasi or vanprasti doesn't matter.
The person who has information regarding facts of Sree Krishna can only teach the facts of Sree Krishna. The one who can realise Sree Krishna can make others realise Sree Krishna.
There is no difference of caste, creed, age or sex in this. According to vedic system we have to adopt sacred thread ceremony (upnayan sanskaar) to pray or prepare bhog for Lord Krishna.
If you are dikshit you can go to temple, it doesn't matter from which caste or creed you belong. But you are to be aware about purities and impurities. For eg- if you want to do seva of a senior Vashinav or devotee, you have to maintain clean your clothes, body as well as your room.
If you are eating on your blanket or that eathy plate touches your clothes, then the blanket and clothes become dirty. With your dirty clothes you cannot go to the temple, you cannot do any seva and even you can't go to Thakurji's kitchen to prepare bhog.
It is then okay if you are not doing any work in temple. But try not to make yourself dirty because there is a reason behind this, when you go to temple with dirty clothes and sit on the carpet, those also become dirty and another person sitting on the same carpet will also get dirty too.
Usually we see the priest in the temple always having their own mat to sit to maintain their purity.
Whatever it is but the pure and impure states are followed by rules included in Archan.
But in bhajan Mahaprabhu said that you can do bhajan(devotion)
debate or discuss about Lord Krishna any time or in any state either in pure or impure state whether in impure clothes or in clean and pure clothes.
We are free to do these acts any time anywhere it's all throughout the life. There is no such restriction in bhajan.Someone asked me if we go to washroom shall we wash our body parts after urination.
I answered to wash private parts, hands or foots to make yourself pure for doing our Archana vidhi in pure state. Someone asked one more question - During our impure state, should we read Bhagavat Geeta?
I replied you can read Bhagavat Geeta and its phrases and their meanings also but you can't take or touch these holy books in impure conditions.
Purity or impurity doesn't matter in bhajan. These matters are in Arachan vidhi which were followed by Vedic system.
Hare Krishna