GOD for Males

We had already identified the super power with different names based on our beliefs. Now an additional dimension of this identification is coming to the fore. This is GOD for Males and GOD for females. Places of worship have always been like private places defined for the specific purpose of a kind of entrepreneurship in its own way. I can fully understand the view that a private entrepreneur may have certain reservations about his workplace. Temples are no exception. The problem begins when people start treating them as public places and start giving extra ordinary value to these places. If I am discriminated in visiting a certain public place, I raise my voice. If same thing happens at a private place, I tell my friends also to avoid that place. To make my point clear, I would say directly, if a temple stops women to enter its premises citing certain reasons, it is definitely not a public place. If it is treated as a private place and all men also stop going there in support of the better halves, the business model of that place will get affected and it will immediately bow down to allow everyone. There is an argument with different perspective. If GOD is Omni present, why insist on visiting a certain place only. Many of us know that some time we visit a place of worship out of routine habit or to commemorate a success or a failure. There might be genuine reasons behind making proper places of worship, but most of us visit these places as we have developed a belief system that was transferred to us not in our genes, but in our habits. Obviously such systems will be full of caste biases, gender biases. 

The story of saint Ravidas goes like this. A devotee after returning after a dip in Ganges stopped in front of a cobbler to get his shoe repaired. He also said that he had lost his gold bracelet in the Ganges. The cobbler said to him the line that later became a popular quote. This line was, "Man Change to Kathauti mein Ganga", which means that if your heart is clean you can find Ganges inside the water kept in a cobbler's bowl of water. The devotee himself tried to put his hand in the cobbler's bowl of water. A shallow bowl which was earlier carrying nothing inside transparent water could be searched for the bracelet this devotee lost while bathing in Ganges. You may think many things after hearing this story. You might even attribute this happening to racket of thieves who steal valuable from devotees and produce it back as if it was magic. The fact is that history I read treated this as a lesson of preaching to tell us about importance of worshipping with a clean heart and the place of worship is less important as compared to the objective of worship. For time being I would say, what is the point about arguing about place of worship for males or females. Shall we argue, if at all a place is important? 

Dr. Sunil Ji Garg