11-02-2006, 03:48 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Oct 5 2006, 07:47 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Oct 5 2006, 07:47 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->1. Mahabharat: Maadri the wife of Pandu, committed sati after Pandu's death. But again reason was guilt of (indirectly) being the cause of her husbands death.
2. Shiv Puran: Sati - the wife of Shiva - threw herself in Yagna-kunda, when Shiva was insulted. Again, the reason was that she felt responsible for the insult since it was she who had insisted upon Shiva joining the ceremony un-invited. Strictly not sati case.
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Ya but that's got nothing to do with treatment of women. men too sacrificed as much for their Dharma/duty. didn't pandavas and even lord krishan embressed willing and painful death by going to himalays?
Ek lavya, Ram etc.. there is just as much examples of men going through extreme pain to obey their dharma. just look around your own family we Hindus don't look at women as inferior, superior or equal. we look at them as compatible or incompatible / capable or incapable of doing their duty as woman.. just the way we look at a man as being capable or incapable of doing his duty.
2. Shiv Puran: Sati - the wife of Shiva - threw herself in Yagna-kunda, when Shiva was insulted. Again, the reason was that she felt responsible for the insult since it was she who had insisted upon Shiva joining the ceremony un-invited. Strictly not sati case.
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Ya but that's got nothing to do with treatment of women. men too sacrificed as much for their Dharma/duty. didn't pandavas and even lord krishan embressed willing and painful death by going to himalays?
Ek lavya, Ram etc.. there is just as much examples of men going through extreme pain to obey their dharma. just look around your own family we Hindus don't look at women as inferior, superior or equal. we look at them as compatible or incompatible / capable or incapable of doing their duty as woman.. just the way we look at a man as being capable or incapable of doing his duty.