( If looking at women is going to get men around lusty then they should avoid visiting temples with impure thoughts in their mind.)
not only men but teens or youth or other women too.
we have movies for family and others are rated as adult...why so?.why be so conservative.....what about other women who object to such display of bodies....
(You cannot disrespect God or religion by clothes, but yes shallow thoughts certainly can spoil the holy spirit.)
if clothes cannot be a means of disrespect to any institution then we can go nude into the supreme court of india...where a lawyer was recently thrown out because he did not wear a tie....Clothes and how you behave in a temple can be a means of respecting or disrespecting GOD.
Its just a matter of opinion....also one important thing is there is a different between worldly people and sadhus or saints...worldly people have some mores and when we are in the world we have to follow them...
and then in india we have those who have left the world for god...they can be nude or come in what ever way they want..because they are sadhus....or avadhootas....many of them go around nude...and its acceptable because they have left the world and question us ...we were not born with clothes god made us this way...it is acceptable too in hinduism...a saint women a few years back entered tirupathi without any clothes and kumkum smeared all over her body...she was allowed. ...because she renounced everything for god....
it is not your deed that is jurdged but your intention.
(And courts then: Are there any courts that put an over responsibility on women for 'giving rise to lust in the hearts of others'. And if so, which countries are they in? And if there are such courts in the world, why do they make women so responsible for the lust? Surely men are as responsible for their lust as women are for theirs?)
NO there are no courts like that but are there courts that leave men just because they are men?NO there arent...
no women is being made responsible for lust ....why do men wear proper dress to work place or why do men wear a uniform in office.. more than questions of womens rights these are questions of whats acceptable in a society than questions of womens rights.
I said clearly that even men and their behaviour are controlled.we cannot enter as we wish....we have our own rules to follow....That is how religion is ...it is something that can be reformed as we hindus have done many times over and will continue to do in future.
(where religion and the Tirupati Temple are concerned, why are so many women so eager to not only respect what does not respect them, but to embrace it?)
Is that not freedom of choice....is freedom of women something which mel who is from germany decides for all women or is it a choice for every women to make......
I know of a ezyptian women who told me that she is very mordern but her daughter dosent approve of her ways...her daughter and her friends chose the way of purdah....and did not want to be mordern....for them its an informed choice that was made by them...who are you to question them?.
I dont understand the psyche of western women who make jurdgements of other societies and say how free they are compared to the women of those societies that they come across once a while...Is it not possible that women of eastern societies find the western ideas of women as disrespecting to women in general?.
It is true in societies many women are forced into such kind of slavery similarly many times in the some societies(turkey for example) where religions are very important educated women make a choice of what ever life they want in the prespective of the religion that they inherited from their parents...and we have to respect that.
In India women and men dont act as individuals...they are starting to do now a days but not in general...Most of us live together with our parents and women and men make a lot of adjustments for each other.So its not right always to say that I am an island and my rights and yours ....my space and yours always...that is deemed as being very selfish and self centered...you live for others and also for yourself...and find happiness in working with and for others...That is the way society here formed and shaped itself.
I know of mother in laws who harass their daughter in laws but also know a lot of women who support their daughter in laws when they go for work by taking care of their kids and cooking for their families....It is not regarded as wrong or being exploited etc....
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