All World
Gayatri Pariwar

The Scripture says, “ It is woman who creates man.  The creative power of  woman should   be rightly understood.”

Man is born from woman’s womb. Mother is the child’s first teacher. A drop of father’s semen is only the cause; the whole body and organs are formed by mother’s blood. Child’s body, mind and character are formulated according to the qualities, traits and character contained in her blood and her health, talents, trend of thinking and sentiments. If women remain unhealthy, uneducated, undeveloped, uncultured, dependent and pitiable, the children born of them will be afflicted with these flaws. Barren land cannot yield rich crop.

If an orchard yielding good crop of fruits is to be made, it needs soil of good quality. If humanity wants to progress, it is essential to make women develop their talents and capabilities in physical, intellectual, social and economic fields. Only then can qualities like strength, competency, noble sense, virtue, greatness etc. develop in society. Keeping women chained in backwardness is doing grievous harm to society.

Society consists of two parts – men and women. Efforts are made for betterment, comfort and safety of man, but woman is lagging behind in every field. As a result, half of our nation, half of the society, half of the world, half of the family, half of the life force remains backward. If a cart is fitted with one bigger and one smaller wheel or one big and one small bullock are yoked together, they can’t work properly. Our country, society and community cannot be deemed developed in the true sense, so long as women do not get the opportunity to develop their potential, intelligence and talents.

To-day man’s distrust, restrictions, narrow mindedness, etc. toward women are very much visible. We distrust all women – be they our sisters, daughters, wives or mothers – and think that they would become profligate, if allowed to live unfettered natural lives. Under this false apprehension, all their simple natural human urges are suppressed and heavily fettered. To view our own sisters and daughters as unworthy of trust is a much more heinous sin than distrusting our own self and our own soul. This degraded mentality is totally against the greatness and magnanimity inherent in the Indian culture.

The trait of piety in women is much more than in men. Women are much more abundantly endowed with the virtues of love, kindness, compassion, pity, generosity, gratitude, etc than men. In the same way, from the point of view of character, restraint, morality and sanctity, her place is much higher than that of man. So there is no reason why man should consider her inferior to him, distrust her and obstruct her all round progress. 

More than the sons, Mother Gayatri adores the daughter, because they abound in virtues, which the mischievous boys lack. So it is the message as well as the command of Mother Gayatri that women should not be kept in weak, illiterate, undeveloped and dependent condition and efforts should be made to make them strong, developed and self-reliant. There are many obligations of women on men. Her obligation in the form of mother making the body of the child by giving a portion of her own body and nourishing it, enduring immense pain, is enormously great. The obligation of woman by becoming the better- half, surrendering her entire self is also no less great. As of sisters and daughters, they put on us loads of obligations by pleasing us with gentle sentiments. Man cannot pay back for these obligations even by surrendering his all at her feet. In spite of it, if man remains ungrateful, considers her inferior and becomes a hurdle in the development of her life, it is manifestly unfair and even sinful.

In the dual divine names such as Prakriti-Brahma, Sita-Ram, Lakshmi-Narayan, Radhe-Shyam, Gauri-Shankar etc., woman comes first and man next. In the same way in respect of eminence and natural greatness woman’s place comes first in our social life. If proper respect is given to her, if proper opportunity for progress and development is given to her, she will prove to be a boon to the society and humanity at large. Man’s quarrelsome and selfish tendency having gained supremacy, has created the horror of near-total destruction of the world today. But if womanpower is developed properly, she can reverse this widespread devilishness and fill today’s hellish world with gentleness, simplicity, affection, art and beauty and heavenly peace and happiness.

Many schemes are being devised for taking the nation ahead. Many methods are being worked out to make a better future for humanity. All these will yield no worthwhile results so long as womankind remains in the present sorry state. If the soil itself is not good, how can any good crop be expected? Only through noble culture and virtuous women can great men be born. A country or society becomes truly rich, not by money or materials, but by its citizens. The country or race whose pedigree is spoilt, whose ill- cultured mothers give birth to evil-minded children will ever remain in degraded condition even if they were materially rich. More attention is paid to the sick and the weak. More efforts are made for their care and treatment. In the same way today more attention needs to be paid for the betterment of womankind than of men. 

Mother Gayatri brings about revolutionary changes in our attitude and outlook. She ordains us to look upon womankind with reverence and to treat them accordingly. In western countries a movement for equal rights to women is going on. In Indian culture, much more higher status than equality has been given to woman. By implementing this high ideal we can bring about true well-being of our country and society.  

 

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A reporter was attempting to get a human interest story out of a very, very old man in a government-run home for the aged.

“Grandpa,” said the young reporter, “how would you feel if you suddenly got a letter telling you that a distant relative had left you ten million dollars?”

“Son,” said the old man slowly, “I would still be ninety five years old, wouldn’t I?”