Women and Spirituality

 

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Women and Spirituality

We are all aware that each individual has both qualities in some measure – feminine as well as masculine. Emotions too are regarded as masculine and feminine and whichever quality is more in the individual then a male could be more feminine than masculine and a female could be more masculine than feminine.

Even scientifically, it is just one chromosome which decides whether a person is born as a male or a female. Today a little genetic engineering can make a male into a female and vice versa.

In the past the women were given second class status as far as spirituality is concerned – this is right from Buddha’s time and the Jains, even today, give women second class status compared to their male counterparts. All this is changing slowly. We have modern day saints who are changing the perception – it started with Osho, who made spirituality all about joy, living in the moment and living fully and consciously in the moment.

The kundalini energy is female energy and without the female energy man is incomplete. Females have a greater chance of reaching nirvana because they are purer and after a point their mind becomes free of lust, but for a male that is the second last bastion to fall, just before ego. For most people it does not fall, and that is why the males who dominated the spiritual sphere in the past had to run away from women. They had to go to the Himalayas to run away from the fear of temptation of the female being.

As Swamiji says, after they reached the Himalayas and did their penance and spiritual practice – they attained a state of completeness, where they realised that they were not the body but the soul and the soul has no gender. By the time they realised their mistake it was too late. Today, Swamiji (His Holiness Shivkrupanadji) is teaching Samarpan Dhyanyog free of cost all over the world – and the followers who have given the maximum support and promoted this meditation the most are the females. Women have been given primacy simply because their contribution and dedication has been more. Without Pujya Guruma would Swamiji's journey be complete?

No spiritual progress is possible without respect for women. Women are the reason for the existence of man – when a mother gives birth to a male child, how can the male child ever be considered superior. Let a male child go through the labour pains and deliver a child – then we can talk about equality. The female energy has always been purer and more powerful – what is Shiva without Shakti?

Let us all worship the Kundalini Mata within us, the symbol of Shakti, and ensure that we love and respect the women in our lives like our mothers, sisters, daughters. When we develop that selfless, lust-free love we can confidently say that we have transcended and reached the state that most women naturally find themselves in.

Happy Women's Day