Mother Earth.

[Guest guest]

I was going through my personal little `Gita" today when I

stumble

across this beautiful piece I copied very very long time ago. And

only now I began to realize why I find this passage so fascinating

and touching. I would like to share it with everyone here :

 

" …… because he knew that her mind and her heart were fixed

not upon

the man but upon the pursuance of life. The man's mind and heart

were

fixed upon himself. He was happy enough dreaming that he possessed

the woman and the garden. Why should he be tempted further? He had it

all. But the woman could always be tempted by the thought of a better

garden, a larger space, more to possess, because she knew that out of

her body would come many more beings, and for them she plotted and

planned. The woman thought not of herself, ,but of the many whom she

would create. For their sake she was tempted. For their sake she will

always be tempted….. However, the woman, must not be blamed

because

in her had been put the endless desire to carry on life. The man left

to himself would never go further than himself. He had made the woman

a part of himself, for his own use and pleasure. But she in all her

ignorance and innocence, used him in her endless creation of more

life. Both were tools but only the woman know she was a tool and gave

herself up to life. And this is the difference between man and

woman…. Man believed in his own individual meaning, but woman

knew

that she meant nothing for herself, except as she fulfilled her place

in creating more life. And because man love woman as pat of

themselves, and woman never loved man except as part what must be

created, this was the struggle that made man forever dissatisfied. He

could not possessed the woman because she was already possessed by a

force larger than his own desire. Had she not created even him? "

 

Pearl.S. Buck, Mother Earth.

 

For those who don't know Pearl S. Buck, she one of the renowned

lady

writer. A nobel literature award winner. Her books are simple and yet

its very powerful.

 

OM ParaShaktiye Namaha