SHOBHA’S PAT ON MIND 6699 DR SHOBHA RAJU GENDER DiSCRimiNATiON Discriminate positively eople fight against gender dis - itary napkins every month to claim quantum of wellness. Woman crimination. I say there should your equality with women then? In should never loose their sensitivity bPe gender discrimination...a very a balance, a quarter kg iron block to get their quota in the parliament positive discrimination. Take a hen is on one side and four tomatoes or anything else. They can ask their and cock. Hen needs a certain cozy are on the other side. It required legitimate quota maintaining their place to lay its eggs and to hatch four tomatoes to weigh one block sensitivity and sobriety. Loosing them. Does a cock need? No. of quarter kg. That’s called equal - sensitivity and sobriety to mean - Nature has a gender discrimina - ity. We cannot call it inequality inglessly equal the men means tion? No. Nature has different because the tomatoes are four and loosing the very dignity and natural moulds for different genders. the quarter kg block is just one. texture, nature has so graciously That’s where the beauty lies in Please don’t ask for maternity and creatively endowed us with. nature. It’s called Diversity! leave because women are sanc - In a thorough soul-search, man To ask for equality doesn’t tioned. Ladies! Let’s not madly should understand as to how much mean that the fish should be brou demand meaningless equality with a woman is shouldering the burden ght to the ground and be treated as men. We don’t aim for six packs. in the family. People who are still a dog is treated. It’s to give that We don’t need razors and shaving expecting woman to do all the customized treatment to each crea - creams. Let’s question our selves : house hold work like cooking, ture with which the quantum of How many woman soldiers are cleaning, taking care of children etc wellness remains the same to each there as against male soldiers. A etc....and yet do a nine to five job being. Put the fish in water and the man stands and empties his and earn money without lending dog on the ground. Don’t put both bladder. Can a woman? No. It’s not any helping hand is not justified. either in water or on the ground. a comfortable proposition. Man confining himself just to his “When women are claiming for So nature has endowed men job expecting his wife to get him equal rights, why should I get up with some qualities and faculties water, coffee, serve breakfast, and give a seat to the standing and women with different ones. lunch, dinner, make his clothes woman in the bus?”, questioned a Both should recognize the differ - ready etc etc and bear his chauvin - man in a discussion of women’s ence and treat each other in such a istic ego which hurts her at every rights. Yo! Man! Do you need san - way that both have the same step, is called MCP (Male Chau - THE NEWS YOU LIKE | OCTOBER 2020 70 SHOBHA’S PAT ON MIND vinistic Pig). If a woman thinks that The higher proportions of love, flew making rounds over our only to decorate herself well and care and compassion make a house. It was an amazing sight to demanding luxuries from her woman have an edge over man. It’s one and all. His Holiness Chinna husband expecting him to shoulder a woman that can make a family, Jeer Swami said that, that was an all the burden or not sharing any re - there by a society. The divine evidence of Srimannarayana’s sponsibility, should also be called energy of the universe is expressed presence and grace. WCP (Woman Chauvinistic Pig). in a woman much more when com - So also every woman is a I took it bit too harshly on both pared between a good man and symbol of The Divine Mother, the genders as much disturbance good woman. “Adi Parashakti”. The Divine erupts in society from undue In Assam, Holy Mother Ka - Mother is specially worshiped gender-discrimination. Nirbhaya, makhya stands for the creative during “Dasara”. It’s an auspicious Daisha are not rare cases. These faculty of a woman. “Bhagavati time when the Grace of Divine kind of cases are featuring in media Amma” menstruates in Chengan - Mother is easily accessible. While almost on daily basis. Men are nur, Kerala and temple is closed you worship Her in Puja alter, in taking advantage of woman’s phys - during those days. It’s the very physical world, please your mother, ical variation. The faculty with faculty in a woman, which a man is sister, wife, servant-maid, lady which women are endowed with taking undue advantage of and cre - friend. Their happiness becomes a for the human race to continue, is ating a violent society. Woman has true blessing for you. See The being treated as a weakness and a hidden power in her. This is well Divine Mother’s aspect in all the taken undue advantage of. established allegorically in “Devi woman. That would amount to real Actually the special faculty of Bhagavatam”. There is a way to Shakti Puja. bearing a child and the nature of salvation (Moksha) in worshipping Do not be the cause of a rearing and raising the child with the female aspect of The Divine as woman’s tears. They become lot of love, care and sacrifice, The Holy Mother. It’s called “Mantra Jalam” (Consecrated should be the prime reason, for “Shaakteyam”. water) and curse you, though she which a woman should be re - When we see a monkey respon may not intend to, deliberately. It’s spected. A woman excels in her ding to our prayers, like monkey also said in our ancient scriptures love and care towards her husband, taking a coconut piece in our Puja that where the women are wor - child, sibling, parents naturally, - room, we attribute it to Lord shiped and where they are happy, compared to a man. Her forbearing Hanuman. When we see a peacock there,- all the angels are present. and pardoning capacities are much in our premises after Saraswati Happy Dashara friends! higher than man. Nature has made Puja, we attribute it to the grace of (Author is a well-known her strong mentally as the man is Goddess Saraswati. During our musician, Devotional singer, made physically strong. house-warming ceremony, an eagle writer and composer.) 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