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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If you look at the Kena Upanishad, there's a line about a mosquito which has a better chance of attaining moksha (salvation) by flying into a temple, than a woman who prays there.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Such nonsense!

Why do all who can't stop talking about women's rights in hinduism forget completely about the HUGE shAkta (& shaiva) scripture!

Many shAkta (& shaiva) text clerly enunciates divinity of women and also superiority of female gurus over male gurus.

<b>Durga-saptashati</b> says (in nArAyaNI stuti: chapter 11, verse 5):

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->vidyAH samastAH tava devi bhedaH, striyaH samstA sakalA jagatsu
<b>Devi (goddess Durga), all vidyA's are your various forms , and so are all the women in the world </b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I was just reading <b>tripurArNava-tantram</b>, and I will quote from it:

devI asks shiva about the correct method of getting initiation (dIkShA) from a guru for sick people, mentally reatarded people and women. Shiva replies: (verses 196, 197)

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->yoShitsu niyamo nAsti sarvAstAH gururIritAH, 
mukhya-mantramAtravatI yA sApi gururuttamA  (196)
<b>There is no rule for women, they are all called guru.
Just by getting the main mantra, women become gururUpa (of the form of guru). </b>

mukhya-mantrAnupadished-anyat pustakam arpayet
naiva punso-adhikAraH syAt strIH yataH paradevatA  (197)
<b>After giving the main mantra to women, for the rest just hand them over the whole book.
This privilege is not for men.  Women are themselves highest divinity (paradevatA) .</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->