Women should always be worshipped and treated with affection

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Women should always be worshipped and treated with

affection.

 

The Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva, Section XLVI

 

Bhishma said: Respect, kind treatment and everything

else that is agreeable, should all be given unto the

maiden whose hand is taken in marriage. Her sire and

brothers and father-in-law and husband’s brothers

should show her every respect and adorn her with

ornaments. If they be desirous of reaping benefits,

for such conduct on their part always leads to

considerable happiness and advantage. Women should

always be worshipped and treated with affection. There

where women are treated with respect, the very deities

are said to be filled with joy. There where women are

not worshipped, all acts become fruitless. If the

women of a family, in consequence of the treatment

they receive, grieve and shed tears, that family soon

becomes extinct. Those houses that are cursed by women

meet with destruction and ruin as if scorched by some

Atharvan rite. Such houses lose their splendour. Their

growth and prosperity cease.

 

Women are disposed to accept the love that is offered

to them, and devoted to truth. Women deserve to be

honoured. Do ye men show them honour. The

righteousness of men depends upon women. All pleasures

and enjoyments also completely depend upon them. Do ye

serve them and worship them. Do ye bend your wills

before them.

 

The begetting of offspring, the nursing of children

already born, and the accomplishment of all acts

necessary for the needs of society, behold, all these

have women for their cause. By honouring women, ye are

sure to attain to the fruition of all objects.

 

Deities of prosperity are women. The persons that

desire prosperity should honour them. By cherishing

women, one cherishes the goddess of prosperity

herself, and by afflicting her, one is said to afflict

the goddess of prosperity.

 

 

 

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