Woman is in no way inferior to man. The home is a cooperative organization. It
flourishes on the principle of division of labour. If a man earns and the wife stays at home, it
does not mean that the woman is a parasite and a slave. She is indeed the builder of the nation.
To make noble citizens by training their children and to form the character of the whole human
race is undoubtedly a power far greater than that which women could hope to exercise as voters
or law-makers, as presidents, ministers or judges.
The idea that men and women are equals is purely a Western concept. The Indian or
Hindu concept is that man and woman, Purusha and Sakti, are one and indivisible. Sita did not
think herself as a separate entity. She was in and of Rama. The Indian woman always identifies
herself completely with her husband in all domestic, religious and social life. She is the queen of
the house. She illumines the home through the glory of motherhood. It is in the motherhood of
woman that all her prerogative, glory, competency and jurisdiction are specially vested.
The West has seen women playing the man in every walk of life. But I ask: “Has this
contributed more to human happiness and to the real prosperity and peace of the country? Surely
it has brought more divorce courts, more unhappiness, more restlessness. This has only
thickened the women’s veil of ignorance and augmented their Rajasic element”.
Even in the West, there are many persons who are not in favour of women claiming
equality with men. Even those who were in favour of this movement are now seriously repenting
for their wrong advocacy, because they are actually witnessing before their eyes its pernicious
effects.
Loose life is not perfect freedom. Promiscuous mixing is not freedom. Some women of
India have ruined themselves by taking advantage of this false freedom.
The ideal of the woman in the West should not be our ideal, for then we shall not only be
denaturalized, but also denationalized. One nation cannot adopt the ideal and the social customs
of another without undermining one’s own rock-bottom base.
Women should become good mothers only. This is the function they will have to
perform in the grand plan of God. This is what is meant in the divine plan. This is the will of
God. Women have their own psychological traits, temperament, capacities, virtues, instincts and
impulses. They have their own disadvantages in society. They cannot, and should not, compete
with men.
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