Today is international women's day. On this auspicious day, I take this opportunity to express my respect, gratitude, appreciation and affection for Women in form, and in spirit.
I celebrate the following forms of a woman, which makes womanhood so very venerated in this world. I have tried to depict these forms through the ancient Greek Goddesses.
1. VENUS -
Venus is an ancient Greek Goddess. She stands for Beauty. Beauty is that what inspires life. To experience the same one can see the role played by a flower for instance. A beautiful flower placed on the table lifts the consciousness of one, to touch the ethereal world of beauty and inspiration. You remove the flower, things are not the same again. Beauty inspires mankind to take that extra step, do that bit more, make that unique difference, try to be be that bit more. It stretches life, and lifts it up to an exalted place.
2. ATHENA -
Athena is also an ancient Greek Goddess. She stands for strength, courage, wisdom, inspiration, just warfare, mathematics, skill, and art. Minerva is the Roman incarnation of Athena. Saraswati is the Vedic incarnation of Athena. She stands for that woman of wisdom, who has more to give to the world than just inspiration of beauty. She is that nourisher of the mankind with the knowledge, and wisdom. She also stands as the warrior - for a cause. She is the next level of relating to women. She is power - Shakti.
3. DEMETER -
Demeter is the ancient Greek Goddess of harvest. She presides over the grains and the fertility of the earth. Her Roman equivalent is Ceres. She stands for the Mother. In Vedic framework she is also known as Durga. Woman has been primarily related as the Mother in most of the Vedic Myths. This is the most exalted state of womanhood, which gives it the highest place in creation. In this symbol, woman is related to as Earth, the provider, the nourisher, the acceptor. This is the next higher level of relating to women. Here she stands for the unconditional love of the Mother.
4. HERA -
She is the ancient Greek Goddess of destruction of what is not as per the natural laws. She destroys the ignorance, and creates the place for the birth of new form in wisdom. Kali is the Vedic equivalent. She is the elder. She knows what is right and what is wrong. She destroys the wrong. She does not allow the sin to flourish.
In the current material and male dominated world, hardly there is even a will to relate to women beyond the level of Venus. This has its skewed ramifications. Most of the times women are related to just a thing of beauty and fragility. Although no one voices these prejudices against women vocally, but this attitude is very clear in the sub-conscious state of humanity. That is unfortunate. More than any cunning ploy of the bastion of males, I feel it is just ignorance of the majority. Humanity is just too much tied with what it can see and touch. In that physical realm it is next to impossible to even relate to anything as divine as womanhood. One needs to really grow up, to relate to women as women, and give them their rightful respect, affection and gratitude.
Womanhood has not only to be acknowledged and respected in forms - as people around us as Mother, sisters, friends, colleagues, wife, daughter, etc, but also she has to be related in the realm of non-form, as the spirit of womanhood, in the form of nature, earth, acceptance, being receptive, understanding, caring, giving, nourishing, mentoring, protecting, guiding, loving etc.
Today is not just another day. Today is the day when the entire planet stands in ovation for that indomitable spirit of womanhood!
I bow before thee on this auspicious day!
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