Indian Beauty as Miss Universe - a theological explanation]

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Hari Om & Pranams,

 

First let me explain at the outset, that I am not replying to defend the

Letter to the Editor of Saudi Gazette because it was in a lighter vein and not

a statement of facts. It was a bit of fun & fantasy, as it was from TajMahal

to Statute of Liberty. Little did I expect that it would generate even a brief

response in this list.

 

However I must admit that had it not been for the association with Advaitin

list and certain other equally positive movements where I live-Thanks to the

introduction to them by Shri Madhava- my perception of the event would have

been different and I would have not been able to look at the matter in the way

it was worded.

 

I now think that even a Prostitute has a right to pray and aprraoch God and

have inner peace. It is not necessarily the preserve of the chaste, pure,

janais and Mahatmas. There is no human being or a particular sect who has

monoploy over access to God and prayer and they also cannot bar others from

such a recourse. From my own exprience, I can say that I was less perfect

before a year and having learnt through this association a few basic aspects

of Vedanta, I feel inwardly better and there has been some behavioral changes

though nothing earth shaking. It can happen to whom we describe as prostitute

or some one without even any profession.

 

What we have to face is the changing morals of the day with reference to the

technology, economy and military and social realities that shape our day to

day lives. We are not living in jungle where we can contemplate and reach god

assuming that it is an ideal option. If I were to stop everything I am doing

and renounce the world without a proper compass, then it is a case of running

away, not wisdom.

 

Although prostitute has not yet become a profession which humans prefer to

print in their visit cards or describe it in their passport, it is not to be

looked down while at the same time being not a role model. For sake of

argument, there is but a thin line between such a profession and that in the

Fashion, Film & Media business.

 

But fundamental truths do not change with social norms or behavior and

possibly advaita philosophy is one such. Inner beauty is admittedly a

different matter than outer beauty. It has a positive effect on the

personality is also widely acknowledged.

 

As society changes, the mode and content of communication need also to change

to link them with eternal truths. The commentaries of Swami Chinmayananda &

Swami Dayananda Sarawathi's on Gita are thus differently worded from Adi

Sankara. Without anyway disputing the scholarship of adi Shankara, if what he

said was enough for all time to come,why then are others commenting on it,

they have just to repeat verbatim what he said. Our search is for those

eternal truths in our present context. Because we as humans are not good

enough to spot them right away.

 

Namaste.

P.B.V.Rajan

 

 

 

 

>Subala das wrote..In our history, there are descriptions of these type of

competitions for the selections of Nagar-Vadhu ( In modern words:

city-prostitute). Amarpali is the famous story we all know. However these

women were not chaste women, they were not allowed to live usual life of a

women. They were not allowed to marry. certain more restictions were there. In

Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna clearly advises to come over the lust, how can

you come over the lust, when somebody is finding the ways for increasing your

lust. at present our society is lacking the vedic culture, so women are no

more a object of worship.............

> from anurag

>1. Education

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>2. High Ideals and Piousness ( Sanskaars ).

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>3. Outer Beauty

 

 

 

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