Woman should recognize her true form and powers with Kanya Pujan

Navratri is the festival of worshiping the Mother Goddess. Every year this event is celebrated with devotion and enthusiasm all over the country. Complete preparations are also being made for Kanya Pujan in homes. Every day the worship of Mother Goddess is done. Overall, the whole world knows that there is a culture of motherhood in our country. Mother is the first Guru, mother is the first Acharya and the daughter is accepted as Lakshmi, Durga. This is the pleasant, proud side of our country’s culture. It is true that many social evils are still preventing the daughters of India from flying with their wings spread, but the daughters of Durga’s country are also not far behind. The daughters of India are playing an important role in the military and para-military forces deployed for the security of the country on the snowy peaks. Once upon a time, there was talk of one Queen Lakshmibai, martyr girl Maina, but till today a large number of our daughters are flying Rafale. She is traveling the world driving big ships in the ocean, for the security of the country. In water-land-sky, they are writing stories of their bravery on the forehead of time with their determination and bravery. Just as Channma once wrote or Ahilyabai, mother Jijabai and even before that Goddess Shakuntala used to play with her son with a lion. Our first Guru is mother and our sages and sages have accepted mother as the first god since time immemorial by saying Mother God Bhava. When I talk about the daughter of India, then those daughters are also those who belong to the Muslim society and are still bound in many kinds of bondages. Don’t know why the Hindu daughters who are covered in burqa and covered in veil are not able to get out of this bondage. Somewhere in the name of religion, somewhere in the name of family decency and somewhere in the name of male-dominated society, yet in the Constitution of India, the daughter of India was beautified on the highest position in the country. Our President Mrs. Draupadi Murmu is the first citizen of our country by virtue of her qualification and the rights given by the constitution.

In many homes, the girls do not have the same place and respect that the sons of the family have. Some prominent persons and political leaders of our society are also lions in giving only paper speeches, but as soon as they enter inside the house, they forget what speeches they have given outside for equality for women’s rights. In 1991, 33 percent reservation was given to women in local self-government, but that reservation became for families. The woman will get the ticket when the desired area is reserved by the male of the family. Our governments do not have the strength to crack even a little bit on those Pradhanpatis or Pradhan sons who openly use all the powers of Panch-Sarpanch, Councillor, even signature. The proposal to give reservation to women in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies has been hanging fire for more than three decades because those who consider mother as the first god and first guru do not want women to become their equal MLAs and MPs. It would not be appropriate to mention names, I heard from the head of a very big cultural and social organization that keep talking about reservation, don’t get it done, otherwise our family structure will deteriorate, it will disintegrate because if women reach Parliament or Vidhansabha If she goes, the kitchen will be empty or the men will have to run the kitchen. I am talking about something other than politics. Women are still far behind in our religious field. Have you seen any such temple-gurudwara, mosque or church whose head is Pandit, President, Maulvi, Pastor or Granthi woman. It is a matter of regret that the constitution which can make us the President cannot make us the head of a temple. Even today there are some temples where women are not allowed to enter. After the death of the male head of the family, the turban is placed on the heads of the sons. When a woman dies, her daughters or daughters-in-law do not have the same rights as sons, brothers or husbands. In many communities, women cannot even touch the turban being tied in the community. Now slowly a little change is coming. One thing that is related to every household, with Durga Puja, the girls’ hands are tied with a mauli, ie Mangal thread, but the married woman of the family is told that the right hand is not yours, but the left hand should be put forward. There is no complaint with those who say, it is with those who believe. Is the woman’s right hand not her own? This is just one side. On the other side, there are those daughters of our country, not two or four hundred lakhs, whom no one talks about. Neither in Durga Puja, nor in the celebrations of Ram’s birth and Krishna’s birth. Those poor lakhs of prostitutes who are forced to live in the same hell generation after generation and the thousands of girls who go missing every year due to the inefficiency of the governments are also sent to this hell or sold abroad, to sell the body. On the day of Kanya Pujan, the whole society will have to take a resolution that why the girl we are worshiping cannot become a temple priest? At least women should worship in the temples of goddesses. There is logic in this too, it is right if the society thinks. Why can’t she become the president of the temple?, can play the dholki, can cook langar, but cannot visit the same idol in some special temples, whose songs she sings by playing the dholak or cooks food for them. It has to be remembered that the society has to change its mindset, but first women have to change their mindset. I feel pity on them and also anger who says- Pandit ji said that you do not have right hand, if the right hand is not hers, then why do women’s makeup bangles and mehndi appear in it, why does she give Diksha Dakshina with right hand? Are. Sacrifice of Yagya too. By the way, becoming a judge, she also orders life imprisonment with her right hand. I am remembering the words of Mahadevi Verma ji – Recognize your own form woman, not the form which is shown in the mirror by going to a beauty parlor and smearing your face. The meaning of Mahadevi ji was that form which is contained inside the woman. Channma’s, Lakshmi’s, Pannadhay’s, Durga Bhavani’s and Jhansi’s Rani. That’s why the society has to change its mindset, the most important part of the society is that women have to recognize their true form and power.

(The writer is former health minister of Punjab)
(Views are personal of the author)
– Laxmikanta Chawla