Make Room For The Feminine To Flow
With technology levelling the field, women today have more opportunities than ever before. When physical strength was a major factor determining life, the masculine would dominate. Now, enabled by technology, anyone can get empowered to go farther. Gender-based discrimination has seeped into every aspect of our lives. Your functioning as a human being need not be determined by your gender. But culturally, traditionally, we have established these things in such a hard core, straitjacketed way that we think this is all nature, whereas gender based segregation is a purely social construct. Women need to unburden themselves of the cultural baggage that they have come to bear for thousands of years. Most importantly, women need to guard against the tendency to 'become like a man' just because of the cultural baggage that seems to convey that anything masculine is somehow superior. Actually, the very idea of deciding what is superior or inferior is very masculine. If you look at life, everything has a role to play. The reason why the masculine has been more important till now is because all these thousands of years of our existence, our focus has been survival. Just going and getting food was such a hard task. Now you can just go into the supermarket and buy whatever you want. For the first time, we can relax our survival attitudes a little bit. Once we do that, we'll find that what is naturally feminine reveals its true significance. However, modern societies are not relaxing their survival instinct; whether it is a car or a home or whatever, we are just raising the bar. Right now the whole world is ruled by economics. When money is the only important thing, the masculine becomes the most dominant part of our social structure For the feminine to really flourish, if it has to flow, we need to create a society where there would be room for music, art, love, care and compassion; not just economics. A home, a social structure, a nation, or humanity as a whole is not complete unless the feminine also finds full expression. Today, everybody is ambitious. But there is a way to achieve success without being fired solely by ambition because that is a foolish way. If you are concerned about everything around you, you will naturally do your best; you will not hold back anything. That is a woman's way of operating. That is the best way to operate in the world. When you operate out of personal ambition, you may do a lot of things, but not necessarily towards your own or anyone else's well-being. Global warming, for example, is a consequence of unbridled human activity. If we continue like this without any concern for what is around us, neither man nor woman will be left. If the feminine found more room for expression on this planet, maybe our stock market would not hit 20,000, but generally people would smile more, be a little more happy, a little more loving; life would be a little more beautiful. After all, it is in pursuit of human wellness that all activity is done. But that has been forgotten because that is the way of the masculine, that it just goes on in one way; it will not think about the surroundings. The feminine is not trying to go anywhere; the feminine is happy where it is. If these two aspects are in balance, we will go somewhere but we will also enjoy where we are right now. That is what needs to happen in the world.
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Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Speaking Tree,Times of India
Make Room For The Feminine To Flow
With technology levelling the field, women today have more opportunities than ever before. When physical strength was a major factor determining life, the masculine would dominate. Now, enabled by technology, anyone can get empowered to go farther. Gender-based discrimination has seeped into every aspect of our lives. Your functioning as a human being need not be determined by your gender. But culturally, traditionally, we have established these things in such a hard core, straitjacketed way that we think this is all nature, whereas gender based segregation is a purely social construct. Women need to unburden themselves of the cultural baggage that they have come to bear for thousands of years. Most importantly, women need to guard against the tendency to 'become like a man' just because of the cultural baggage that seems to convey that anything masculine is somehow superior. Actually, the very idea of deciding what is superior or inferior is very masculine. If you look at life, everything has a role to play. The reason why the masculine has been more important till now is because all these thousands of years of our existence, our focus has been survival. Just going and getting food was such a hard task. Now you can just go into the supermarket and buy whatever you want. For the first time, we can relax our survival attitudes a little bit. Once we do that, we'll find that what is naturally feminine reveals its true significance. However, modern societies are not relaxing their survival instinct; whether it is a car or a home or whatever, we are just raising the bar. Right now the whole world is ruled by economics. When money is the only important thing, the masculine becomes the most dominant part of our social structure For the feminine to really flourish, if it has to flow, we need to create a society where there would be room for music, art, love, care and compassion; not just economics. A home, a social structure, a nation, or humanity as a whole is not complete unless the feminine also finds full expression. Today, everybody is ambitious. But there is a way to achieve success without being fired solely by ambition because that is a foolish way. If you are concerned about everything around you, you will naturally do your best; you will not hold back anything. That is a woman's way of operating. That is the best way to operate in the world. When you operate out of personal ambition, you may do a lot of things, but not necessarily towards your own or anyone else's well-being. Global warming, for example, is a consequence of unbridled human activity. If we continue like this without any concern for what is around us, neither man nor woman will be left. If the feminine found more room for expression on this planet, maybe our stock market would not hit 20,000, but generally people would smile more, be a little more happy, a little more loving; life would be a little more beautiful. After all, it is in pursuit of human wellness that all activity is done. But that has been forgotten because that is the way of the masculine, that it just goes on in one way; it will not think about the surroundings. The feminine is not trying to go anywhere; the feminine is happy where it is. If these two aspects are in balance, we will go somewhere but we will also enjoy where we are right now. That is what needs to happen in the world.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Speaking Tree,Times of India