*Our Women* - Views of swamy vivekananda

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*Our Women*

 

There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition

of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only

one wing.

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To me Mother's grace is a hundred thousand times more valuable than

Father's. Mother's grace, Mother's blessings are all paramount to me.

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I know that the race that produced Sita - even if it only dreamt of

her - has a reverence for woman that is unmatched on earth. Sita is

the name in India for everything that is good, pure and holy -

everything that in women we call womanly. Sita never returned injury.

Try to be Sita.

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Our woman are not learned, but they are more pure. To every woman

every man, save her husband, should be her son. To every man every

woman, save his own wife, should be as his mother.

 

Just as centres have to be started for men, so also centres have to be

started for teaching women. The uplift of the women, the awakening of

the massess, must come first, and then only can any real good about

for the country, for India.

Women must be put in a position to solve their problems in their own

way. No one can or ought to do this for them. And our Indian women

are as capable of doing it as any in the world.

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Along with other things, our women should acquire the spirit of

valour and heroism. In the present day, it has become necessary for

them also to learn self defence. See, how grand was the Queen of

Jhansi!

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Who are you to solve women's problems? Are you the Lord God, that you

should rule over every widow and every woman? Hands off! They will

solve their own problems.

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