Recently we celebrated International Women’s Day. I went for lunch with my mother-in-law’s friends. We saw groups of women flocked all over the restaurant. Women who belonged to all age groups came in their best looks and outfits and flaunted their advantage of womanhood everywhere.
I started contemplating on what makes me special as a woman. What is the essence of womanhood? And the first thought I get while contemplating womanhood is of Mother Earth, the true symbol of everything that signifies the “She”.
She breathes an unbelievable tolerance for us and our cruelty towards her. Despite our continual want of material things and unending greed, she accepts us all with the same big heart like a mother who accepts her ignorant and greedy children. She knows it all. She always knew it all. But she still chooses to love this beautiful creation of the Lord. Because she knows that she too is a creation of the Lord. She continues to give fertility, prosperity and tremendous love to the flora and fauna situated on her bosom. Even if we kick her hard, we continuously fight and kill each other, the Mother is hurt but does not leave her nature.
Her true nature of accepting, toleraance and giving. But being a combination of Satva, Raja and Tama, she too is helpless and bleeds anger when the atrocities go beyond her limits. To lessen the atrocities immediately and change the very nature of animal instantly is impossible. But just like when our mothers get angry, we try to behave like her to get her love. Its time we learn acceptance, tolerance and the giving attitude from Mother Earth. Only a genuine attitude of acceptance of the constant change (beyond Satva, Raja and Tama), tolerance for individual differences or similarities and a constant commitment to give or sacrifice, can ease the remaining time of the human race of this blue planet.
On this women’s day, we must embrace womanhood in its entirety. We must embrace the nature of women. A woman is not equal or greater or lesser than a man. She is not here to compete with the man. She is here to sustain and maintain this world, just like a man. She is created by the same Lord, who created man. She does not need any reservations or extra quota or separate identity. She is complete in herself, just like a man. She is His creation. She is beautiful in her own way. She maintains a beautiful balance of the world with her feminine qualities. And the time is perfect for embracing them to balance the greedy material development.
Let us all imbibe the qualities of a woman to sustain happily. Let us be accepting, tolerant and giving to each other a little more. This is not possible by blindly following the world but by being a little Atma Nirbhar. Atma Nirbharta is not in the physical actions but it signifies an independent thought process which later on culminates in independent actions.
Happy International Women’s Day!!!
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