In both men and women, especially in women, there is a bottomless desire to reproduce their own kind. This is not a creation of communal conditioning. The satisfactions and creative opportunities are well recognized. A woman bears the tenderness caused by the pains of labor, but she forgets them in the joy of construction. She is fundamentally not the object of man’s desire, but is the mother, the creator, the leader. It is the benefit of a mother to bring up her children, to help them to build up their distinctive gifts, physical and mental, ethical...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ethnic Conservators
2:42 PM
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Women are the great conservators of our ethnicity. They stick to the household ritual, cradle song and accepted poetry. A definite attitude of life is bound up with these. By the very excellence of their being, women are the missionaries of civilization. With their huge capacity for self-sacrifice they are the unquestioned leaders in life. A married life, where the wife enjoys the admiration of her husband and influence over her household, holds as much pride as the most esteemed of careers, because it gives her the chance to create, conserve and...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Addressing a Woman
6:28 PM
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In the entire world, the servitors of a family address the mistress of the house as mother. The total unfamiliar person addresses every female as mother. The deities of knowledge and wealth are represented in the images of beautiful women, as maternity incarnate. Before going on a voyage and on returning, most people touch the feet of their mothers. This apotheosis of motherhood is not the offbeat of a physical fact, but the glorification of the most sublime qualities of motherhood, of self-less loyalty, unquestioning love and complete self-abnegation....
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Religious Practices
In the obliteration of a family, the immemorial spiritualrites of that family expire. On the destruction of theology, sinfulness overcomes the whole family. By the occurrence of impiety, the women of the family become dishonest; and women being tainted, there arises intermingling of castes. Confusion of castes leads to torture the slayers of the family, for their forefathers fall, dispossessed of the offerings of rice-ball and water. By these evil deeds of the destroyers of the family, which cause bewilderment of castes, the eternal religious rites...
