You cannot undignify my mind!
Read an article recently where the writer pondered about how or rather who would give a fitting reply to the mindless acts of henious violence that men commit against women. He says….I went in search of a feminine identity; - who could give a fitting reply to the mindless acts of violence against human nature, especially against women....... and found Aphrodite as the most suitable contender.
Loved his noble views and yet I have a different philosophy that I shall try to explain in chunks of broken thoughts in this write-up.
Aphrodite was a goddess of love, beauty and fertility. With all due respects, she, in my opinion is not the correct choice in this case. She was this package of celestial beauty, the goddess of fecundity but extremely vain!
I have two related stories to validate my stance. The first one goes like this. Aphrodite couldn’t bear the thought of someone else displacing her beauty legends. And when she became aware of Psyche who others thought was more beautiful, she schemed against her. She asked her son Eros to strike her with an arrow that would make her want the ugliest man on earth. But fate had it otherwise. Eros got pricked by his own arrow & fell hopelessly in love with Psyche. Knowing this Aphrodite was enraged & went to great lengths to separate the two lovers.
Then there is another story wherein Aphrodite is enraged by the claim that Myrrhr, the princess of Cyprus is the most beautiful. She throws a spell on her to lust for her own father. Out of this union is born a baby boy called Adonis. Aphrodite is Adonis’s surrogate mother & eventually when he grows up….they are lovers!
Such instances show how Aphrodite was susceptible to her own vanity. And such a role model can be good for fantasy but not made the bearer of the torch in my opinion.
I would like to introduce to the reader a shlokha from the Sundar Kandh* episode in the Ramayana that my Nani ma taught me as a kid. Of course…I used it for all kinds of nefarious purposes to please Hanumaji at that point of time.
This Shloka is in the form of a plea by Jamwant the king of bears to Hanumanji who often forgot how powerful he truly was. It goes like this…..
Kahahi reech pati suno Hanumana
Ka chup sadhe rahehu balwana
Pawan tanay bal pawan samana
Budhi vivek vigyan nidhana
Kaun so kaz kathin jag mahi
Jo nahin hoi tat tum pahi
A rough interpretation is as under :
Jamwant, the king of bears is reminding Hanuman
Why are you so quiet, oh powerful one!
You are as powerful as the wind (Hanumanji was the son of Pawan God of wind)
You are intelligent, illustrious & an inventor
There is nothing in this world that’s too difficult for you
Whenever I’m stuck, you are the one who can help me.
I would like to put to use this philosophy in today’s time & age. The human mind has this vast capacity to attain anything they put their finger to. It’s our choice how we use it & what we do with this tool. The answer that one seeks around them in actuality is imbedded deep within us! We just need to understand & decipher that power.
It can either be self learning through experience or soaking any knowledge that can help our growth as individuals. It can also be people who evoke in us the confidence & strength we didn’t know existed. The unwavering faith that these people have in us to take charge & assert!
I don’t think there is a need to seek any particular God to deliver us from the evils festering in our society. The power to change the course of the tide is already there in us humans….especially the woman!
Fortunately for her…she’s given the baton to procreate. She is the ultimate Shakti.* She either drives generations to victory or is responsible for turning great era’s to dust.
The woman is the driving force behind how a man thinks & behaves. After all she’s the first person who nurtured him after birth. The basic fundamentals are painstakingly arranged into the young porous mind that credits her veracity with full faith. A mother pours her own beliefs into her child’s mind and thence starts the journey of life!
Just like everything else….the Shakti is also like a rough diamond. She needs the polishing & cut to shine her best. And when she finally does dazzle…she brings a certain brilliance that is path breaking. It’s as if she knows her strengths sometimes & at other times needs the ones around her to help mould her into the appropriate cast.
It is this powerful aura that needs to be nurtured if we want to change the direction of an aimlessly adrift society. Let our spiritualism flower by encouraging the female spore to germinate into strong healthy trees that give shade to the weary & the lost!* Shakti - power
Appendix –
The Ramayana is divided into seven episodes. They are :
1) Bal Kandh
2) Ayodhya Kandh
3) Aranya Kandh
4) Kinskindha Kandh
5) Sunder Kandh
6) Lanka Kandh
7) Uttar Kandh
Copyright © BuntysBanter 2007
Loved his noble views and yet I have a different philosophy that I shall try to explain in chunks of broken thoughts in this write-up.
Aphrodite was a goddess of love, beauty and fertility. With all due respects, she, in my opinion is not the correct choice in this case. She was this package of celestial beauty, the goddess of fecundity but extremely vain!
I have two related stories to validate my stance. The first one goes like this. Aphrodite couldn’t bear the thought of someone else displacing her beauty legends. And when she became aware of Psyche who others thought was more beautiful, she schemed against her. She asked her son Eros to strike her with an arrow that would make her want the ugliest man on earth. But fate had it otherwise. Eros got pricked by his own arrow & fell hopelessly in love with Psyche. Knowing this Aphrodite was enraged & went to great lengths to separate the two lovers.
Then there is another story wherein Aphrodite is enraged by the claim that Myrrhr, the princess of Cyprus is the most beautiful. She throws a spell on her to lust for her own father. Out of this union is born a baby boy called Adonis. Aphrodite is Adonis’s surrogate mother & eventually when he grows up….they are lovers!
Such instances show how Aphrodite was susceptible to her own vanity. And such a role model can be good for fantasy but not made the bearer of the torch in my opinion.
I would like to introduce to the reader a shlokha from the Sundar Kandh* episode in the Ramayana that my Nani ma taught me as a kid. Of course…I used it for all kinds of nefarious purposes to please Hanumaji at that point of time.
This Shloka is in the form of a plea by Jamwant the king of bears to Hanumanji who often forgot how powerful he truly was. It goes like this…..
Kahahi reech pati suno Hanumana
Ka chup sadhe rahehu balwana
Pawan tanay bal pawan samana
Budhi vivek vigyan nidhana
Kaun so kaz kathin jag mahi
Jo nahin hoi tat tum pahi
A rough interpretation is as under :
Jamwant, the king of bears is reminding Hanuman
Why are you so quiet, oh powerful one!
You are as powerful as the wind (Hanumanji was the son of Pawan God of wind)
You are intelligent, illustrious & an inventor
There is nothing in this world that’s too difficult for you
Whenever I’m stuck, you are the one who can help me.
I would like to put to use this philosophy in today’s time & age. The human mind has this vast capacity to attain anything they put their finger to. It’s our choice how we use it & what we do with this tool. The answer that one seeks around them in actuality is imbedded deep within us! We just need to understand & decipher that power.
It can either be self learning through experience or soaking any knowledge that can help our growth as individuals. It can also be people who evoke in us the confidence & strength we didn’t know existed. The unwavering faith that these people have in us to take charge & assert!
I don’t think there is a need to seek any particular God to deliver us from the evils festering in our society. The power to change the course of the tide is already there in us humans….especially the woman!
Fortunately for her…she’s given the baton to procreate. She is the ultimate Shakti.* She either drives generations to victory or is responsible for turning great era’s to dust.
The woman is the driving force behind how a man thinks & behaves. After all she’s the first person who nurtured him after birth. The basic fundamentals are painstakingly arranged into the young porous mind that credits her veracity with full faith. A mother pours her own beliefs into her child’s mind and thence starts the journey of life!
Just like everything else….the Shakti is also like a rough diamond. She needs the polishing & cut to shine her best. And when she finally does dazzle…she brings a certain brilliance that is path breaking. It’s as if she knows her strengths sometimes & at other times needs the ones around her to help mould her into the appropriate cast.
It is this powerful aura that needs to be nurtured if we want to change the direction of an aimlessly adrift society. Let our spiritualism flower by encouraging the female spore to germinate into strong healthy trees that give shade to the weary & the lost!* Shakti - power
Appendix –
The Ramayana is divided into seven episodes. They are :
1) Bal Kandh
2) Ayodhya Kandh
3) Aranya Kandh
4) Kinskindha Kandh
5) Sunder Kandh
6) Lanka Kandh
7) Uttar Kandh
Copyright © BuntysBanter 2007
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