What women Want -PART II
July 11th, 2006 by taggy
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It continues from sridhar uncles narration below initially started off as a comment but i chose to later put it down as a entry !.
truly wonderful narration and it comes jus a few hrs after i watch the “the sacred feminine” a recent controversy surrounding a lady actually entering the lord ayyappas temple, wish the head priest and the “Guardians of religion ” could give this freedom to the women 
Taking a bitt off the post tell me if its my scientific perspective that refuses to believe
the old rules that apply at temples barring women from touching the god they choose to worship . Who am I ? who are they ? to prevent her from doing what she wants.
I asked this same question to my amma and she looked around for a execuse ,not finding any she replied “kuttan, lord ayyapas considers women as impure and a distraction” i was even more puzzled i call my country mother india,i narrate “matha pitha guru devo ” putting my mother first and i still have nothing to say about this !someone told me legal action against the women who accepted to the fact they had visited the temple.
And isnt calling them impure a sin ? A talking society we have always been i meant just a TALKING society ,this issue hasnt even wrapped in much public support am i to believe people believe religion today is much more than choice does god tell us who who should and who should not worship him ? if he does !! then does he EXIST ?
If my mother was to worship the lord and wanting to visit him at his shrine i would definitely want her to do so and if the lord comes up to say through his ” Saviours of Faith” then im sure i refuse to believe in the god .
How dare if some one could call my mother,sis impure ! be it god ?
today iam all silent for the women who visited the shrine and are being pursued by ppl for it ,iam silent only coz they are not my mother ,not my sis ?
or may be .. i dont know !!
I know there are lotsa wise men around who read this blog,people more mature than me ,more educated ,more experienced
Am i wrong ?
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July 12th, 2006 at 4:17 am
Temple is nothing but a place of worship
where all are equal in the eyes of GOD.
Preventing Women (in the particular age group alone) from worshipping Ayyappa at the hills is only a cruelty to a section of people.
No GOD has written any episode
on palm leaves or on any culvert
preventing them from worshipping Ayyappa.
Can any priest show reasonable
evidence in this regard for physical verification. Surely they cannot, because
everything goes on superstition.
They will, if we ask, say
simply their forefathers told.
Such cock and bull stories can be
told by people for several generations.
In fact, Ayyappa appeared in my dream
few days back and cautioned me
not to belive such words and all women irrespective of their age
can visit the temple.
Will any one believe it?
Those priests have neither seen GOD
and got the instructions from HIM nor
they are legal heirs of HIM.
They are simply misguiding the people
for want of publicity and also may be
for their personal benefit.
If women in that age group
should not be allowed to
worship Ayyappa, then how women
sre allowed at the foot of the hills
to run various business.
Wont this distract or affect the GOD
who is omnipresent.
Distraction is applicable
only to mankind and not GOD.
In all, Taggy, you are not wrong.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Taggy, you have some very good points but I think this issue is not about GOD. GOD , in the general theist dictionary, does treat everyone equally.
But this is about RELIGION, a man’s/society’s/culture’s interpretation about the right way to realize/reach GOD. If we donot believe it works or even if we are sceptical about it, we always do have the choice of not subscribing to it.
After all, there are as many religions and micro-religions as there are people in India :).