Motherhood

Motherhood

Motherhood is naturally and exclusively reserved,

So securely for a woman that no man may go bragging about.

As he is inclined to do so about so many things falsely,

Finds his big lies are of little help in this case clearly.

Envious and afraid of the power thus bestowed upon her alone

He attempts to establish his ownership as much as he can.

He places him artfully as the head of his artificial family

And lets his cruelty run berserk to dominate everybody.

We all have seen his madness throughout the history,

In numerous wars, in governments and in his moon journey.

And how grateful has the woman been for this rare gift?

We ask this fondly to her if she thinks she is actually fit.

Resistance is pain : it is not birthing itself as she thinks

Unnaturally, with her ungrateful artificial life she  lives.

Alas ! the greatest pleasure is reduced to rubble thus

And humanity plunges in to utter chaos.

Why can't a woman think that she can be a Mary,

Or a Maha Maya, an Anusuya or a Devaki ?

 

Health

Health

Health has become such an important word today that it is one of the most searched words in the Google search engine. Commonly, we understand health as a state of well being. But going deeper into this word, we find various interesting definitions of health. Since it is very important to understand what health is, we should discuss it in a fresh paragraph.

There are different definitions of health according to different ages, cultures, religions, civilizations, societies, organizations etc. The World Health Organization has its own definition of health and so do the Buddhists, the Hindus and the Taoists. There are some similarities and also differences in their definitions. Each language has coined its own word for health according to its speakers' understanding. Perhaps the most interesting meaning of health comes from the Sanskrit word 'swastha' which means healthy in English. The first part 'swa' means ' one's own ' and the second part 'stha' means 'place'. That means one who is in one's own place is healthy. A man who is at his own center or soul within his body is a man of health. Such a person does not have any illness, weakness or deformity either in his body or his mind or his soul. He is physically, mentally, socially and spiritually well.

If we look around us, it is almost impossible to find a person who is healthy according to what the Sanskrit word means to say about health. We ourselves cannot claim that we will not fall ill physically someday. Is there no way to make sure that no illness or accidents will ever happen to us? We know that health is possible from being at one's own center and therefore, it is very likely that diseases and accidents can be avoided. Now, the question is how to be at our own centers or souls; and therefore, if we can ever learn the method somehow. The answer to this can be the solution of health problem.

The advantages of being healthy and the disadvantages of being unhealthy are obvious. It is a waste of time to talk about them. It is sufficient to say that healthy people can have a better and more productive life while unhealthy people become incapable of doing things they want to do and they are doomed to live a life of pain, weakness and uselessness. 

Finally, we all should try individually to help ourselves to become healthy. It is a matter of waking up from the sleep called ignorance; and that can happen only when we learn to travel inwards to reach our center to become healthy. Every school should teach yoga and meditation as a part of education all over the world. Before that humanity has little chance to be healthy.


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The Teej Festival

The Teej Festival and Its Spiritual Aspect

Every year, women celebrate the Teej festival in Nepal in the month of September or October. This spiritual festival is also known as Haritalika. In recent times, it has become more of a social affair than spiritual one. In the ancient times, it was a totally spiritual practice and it served the purpose of the festival. Although it is exclusively for Hindu women, men are also now said to be taking interest as well as part in it. For women, it is a major festival.

 How is it Celebrated?

 

The Teej is for three days. Weeks before the Teej arrives, women begin thinking fondly about it and their mother's home. New Teej songs are composed by singers every year and are made popular through the radio and the TV. The women in cities start organizing social gatherings at party places to enjoy dancing, singing and eating long before the Teej festival arrives. All married women get an opportunity to return to their mother's home to celebrate this festival. Usually, their brothers come to take them home. 

The first day of the Teej is Dar. Women eat as much heavy food as they can and stuff their stomachs and gratify their minds. The next day is for dancing and singing. Women wear their best dress and jewelry and come out into the streets to sing and dance at public places. They sing about their life, its joys and sorrows. By the evening they become totally exhausted; but instead of eating, they go silent without food. This is called brata or upabasa. They keep this for the longevity of their husbands' or would-be husbands' life. Thus ends the Teej; and married women return to their husbands.

The Science behind the Festival

This is a very beautiful spiritual festival. Everything is logical and scientific. The first day is for accumulation of energy to be spent on the following day by necessity. It is also for the gratification of the body and the mind by over-eating. Then, the dancing and the singing exhausts their physical energy and releases their pent up emotions. This prepares women for upabasa.  

Upabasa does not mean fasting. upa means 'near' or 'next to' and basa means 'staying'. So upabasa means 'staying nearby'. The mind in the tired body is no longer able to run far away from one's center now. Instead, as the woman sits comfortably and her body relaxes, her mind comes nearer and nearer and at last, stays near her center or soul. She is able to become thoughtless in this way. When there is no thought left, it is the right moment to make a wish. A single thought or wish made at this circumstance has the support of her total energy or prana. This method is so powerful that the wish becomes material with prana-energy and comes true. 

On the contrary, if the wish is made from the fragmented mind, it brings the opposite of welfare 

Why the women wish for the longevity of their husbands' lives and not for their own liberation is very disturbing.

The Bottom Line

Year after year, women make wishes for their husbands as a sacrifice but few succeed because they do not follow the exact steps seriously and consciously. The science and technique of making wishes is a powerful tool which can be learnt and used for many other purposes too. Women should use this tool for their personal spiritual progress as well. Since it is a powerful tool, it should be always used for the good of all mankind.