Woman - A doorway to hell ????

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Almost all religions agree on one thing that is-- women need to be

suppressed and kept in chains. None of the present day religion

really respects women.

 

Christianity declares woman was made from a small bone of man and

there are hundreds of restrictions on women.

 

Islam has insulted women in the name of religion for hundered of

years and her position is no more than a property

 

Buddha was very reluctant to initiate women and refused thousands

of women coming to him for initiation. When his Aunt cum mother

Mahamaya requested him for initiation, he could not refuse and the

doors were opened for other women. But there are hundreds of

restrictions on women. There are many rules only dealing with how to

treat a woman by a buddhist monk none of them showing any respect to

women.

 

Jainism treats women as lower to men. A Jain woman saint has to

bow before a man saint even if he is junior to him in age or in

sanyas. Jains declare all women who take sanyas and do penace, will

be reborn as men in next birth and then they will be fit for Moksha.

 

Our own dear Hinduism treated women like animals, giving them no

right, no independence, rather burning them in the name of religion.

Almost all of our great saints shunned women and many of them

said "Nari Narak ka dwar hai" Woman is doorway to hell !!

 

Shri Krishna himself declared in Gita that women are equally

eligible for Moksha as men, but traditional hindus and their Pandits

ignored Krishna as far as woman was concerned.

 

What is the reason ? why for thousands of years humanity, in

every religion, has rejected woman ? Is she really so mean...is she

really too unpious ?

 

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"Where women are honored there the gods are pleased; but where they

are not honored no sacred rite yields rewards," declares Manu Smriti

(III.56) a text on social conduct.

 

"Women must be honored and adorned by their fathers, brothers,

husbands and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare." (Manu

Smriti III, 55)

 

" Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly

perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers."

(Manu Smriti III, 57).

 

"The houses on which female relations, not being duly honored,

pronounce a curse, perish completely as if destroyed by magic." (Manu

Smriti III, 58)

 

" Hence men who seek their own welfare, should always honor women on

holidays and festivals with gifts of ornaments, clothes, and dainty

food." (Manu Smriti III, 59)

 

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1860-1888) Indologist and head of the

Oxford's Boden Chair, wrote: "Indian wives often possess greater

influence than wives of Europeans." He is not a true Hindu who does

not regard a woman's body as sacred as the temple of God. He is an

outcast who touches a woman's body with irreverence, hatred or anger."

 

"A woman's body," says Manu the law giver, "must not be struck hard,

even with a flower, because it is sacred." It is for this reason that

the Hindus do not allow capital punishment for women.

 

The idea of equality was most forcibly expressed in the Rig Veda (Book

5, hymn 61. verse 8). The commentator explains this passage thus: "The

wife and husband, being the equal halves of one substance, are equal

in every respect; therefore both should join and take equal parts in

all work, religious and secular." No other Scripture of the world have

ever given to the woman such equality with the man as the Vedas of the

Hindus. The Old Testament, the Zend-Avesta and others, have made woman

the scapegoat for all the crimes committed by man. The Old Testament,

in describing the creation of woman and the fall of man, has

established the idea that woman was created for man's pleasure;

consequently her duty was to obey him implicitly. It makes her an

instrument in the hands of Satan for the temptation and fall of the

holy man with whom she was first enjoying the felicity of paradise.

 

The 126th hymn of the first book of the Rig Veda was revealed by a

Hindu woman whose name was Romasha; the 179 hymn of the same book was

by Lopamudra, another inspired Hindu woman. There are a dozen name of

woman revealers of the Vedic wisdom, such as Visvavara, Shashvati,

Gargi, Maitreyi, Apala, Ghosha, and Aditi, who instructed Indra, one

of the Devas, in the higher knowledge of Brahman, the Universal

Spirit. Everyone of them lived the ideal life of spirituality, being

untouched by the things of the world. They are called in Sanskrit

Brahmavadinis, the speakers and revealers of Brahman.

 

When Sankaracharya, the great commentator of the Vedanta, was

discussing this philosophy with another philosopher, a Hindu lady,

well versed in all the Scriptures, was requested to act as umpire. It

is the special injuction of the Vedas that no married man shall

perform any religious rite, ceremony, or sacrifice without being

joined in by his wife; the wife is considered a partaker and partner

in the spiritual life of her husband; she is called, in Sanskrit,

Sahadharmini, "spiritual helpmate." This idea is very old, as old as

the Hindu nation.

 

In the whole religious history of the world a second Sita will not be

found. Her life was unique. She is worshipped as an Incarnation of

God. India is the only country where prevails a belief that God

incarnates in the form of a woman as well as in that of a man. In the

Mahabharata we read the account of Sulabha, the great woman Yogi, who

came to the court of King Janaka and showed wonderful powers and

wisdom, which she had acquired through the practice of Yoga. This

shows that women were allowed to practice Yoga. As in religion, Hindu

woman of ancient times enjoyed equal rights and privileges with men,

so in secular matters she had equal share and equal power with them.

>From the Vedic age women in India have had the same right to possess

property as men; they could go to the courts of justice, plead their

own cases, and ask for the protection of the law. Those who have read

the famous Hindu drama called Shakuntala, know that Shakuntala pleaded

her own case and claimed her rights in the court of King Dushyanata.

Similar instance are mentioned in the 10th book of the Rig Veda. As

early as 2000 B.C. Hindu women were allowed to go to the battle fields

to fight against enemies. Sarama, one of the most powerful women of

her day, was sent by her husband in search of robbers. She discovered

their hiding place and then destroyed them. (source: India And Her

People - By Swami Abhedananda - p. 255-267).

 

Women must be honored and adorned by their father, brothers, husbands,

and brother-in-law who desire great good fortune. Where women, verily

are honored, there the gods rejoice; where, however, they are not

honored, there all sacred rites prove fruitless. Where the female

relations live in grief -- that family soon perishes completely;

where, however, they do not suffer from any grievance -- that family

always prospers. ..

 

Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in

youth, her sons protect her in old age. The father who does not give

away his daughter in marriage at the proper time is censurable;

censurable is the husband who does not approach his wife in due

season; and after the husband is dead, the son, verily is censurable,

who does not protect his mother. Even against the slightest

provocations should women be particularly guarded; for unguarded they

would bring grief to both the families.

 

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