About Woman-Indian Prespective
About Woman-Indian Prespective
An integral spiritual experience holds that "woman is the mirror in which man sees the reflection of his own self, his own dormant and hidden powers of genius when she comes and stands before him; immediately he becomes awake and energetic with the inspiration of fully manifesting and expanding himself. That is why woman is the shakti - without a touch of this force of woman man cannot attain full awakening and integral self-realisation… Woman is said to be an equal partner in following the dharma - sahadharmini - because she is as though this other wing of man. With her help man is capable of giving expression to his own complete dharma of life and embraces his own greater self. Man is like empty space without woman. Woman fills this emptiness -ayamakasah striya puryata eva."
Behind this spiritual experience and explanation of the true relationship between man and woman is the metaphysical concept of the dual principle of Purusha-Prakriti, Bhagavan and Bhagavati, Krishna-Kali. This whole creation is an eternal play and manifestation of Purusha-Prakriti.
Man is Purusha and woman Prakriti. Purusha is the witness aspect of the Divine enjoying the multiplicity of Prakriti's manifestation. Similarly, the basic nature of man, because largely based in the intellect, is that of keeping a separative distance from the objective world. Whereas a woman's natural dharma is 'to be': "she wants to lose her identity with unreserved self-giving, or wants to swallow the thing to make it a part and parcel of her own." This is the attitude of the embracing heart, and therefore for a woman detachment comes with great difficulty. "Man has a wideness of intellect with which he wants to throw light on everything in the world and the universe; nothing is alien to him, nihil alienum. But a thing is altogether alien to woman if it is outside the ambit of her heart… Woman cannot negate or forget her own entity or 'I' - at least in imagination - as easily as does man. The...
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