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I read your writings in “My Magazine”: “Woman is only a rotten leather bag containing urine, pus, wool, blood, etc....

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 28, 2009 at 6:00pm
” How can we condemn and deprecate womankind? I think that there is nothing unholy in this universe.Too much study and a little practice bring bewilderment. To induce Vairagya in thepassionate people, I place such a negative mental picture of women. Really, women aremanifestations of Sakti. Yes, all is holy. All is sacred. All is beautiful. This can be realized andfelt only by people advanced in the spiritual line. Beginners can merely repeat these formulaslike a parrot. Their experience, Drishti and mode of Sadhana are entirely different from theexpressions of realized persons. Beginners should be very careful, as they will be easily dupedby Maya.From "May I answer that" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda
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