कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं संसारसारं भुजगेन्द्रहारम्

I have always been a Liberal. Even with the India-Pakistan war, I have always scoffed at the people that tried to say that Islam is the problem and not just the extremist, terror cells in Pakistan. I wasn't excited about the idea of a war, but I saw it as the result of literally nothing else working out. I heard about Kashmiri Pandits, but I thought what happened to them was because of the militant groups coming in. I was sure that they'll be helped to go back home in time.

Now the Hindus in West Bengal are being slaughtered.

West Bengal has been one of the leading forces of the freedom struggle in our country. We have had brilliant philosophers, artists, dancers, poets, singers, screen play writers, writers everything from West Bengal. It is a state that produces brilliant intellectuals every year. Liberals and socialists. I don't know if you've ever talked to a Bengali, but they're the most capable, well spoken, talented people you will ever come across. It's the stronghold of the Shaktism sect in India. Ma Durga is revered the most in that land.

And now our people are being slaughtered. Hindus are being driven out of their land by the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and certain extremist Muslims. It's like watching the Kashmiri Pandit exodus in real time. For centuries they've coexisted together with no issues, enriching the culture of Bengal, and suddenly brother has turned to foe. Houses and businesses are being burnt. They're looting people and issuing rape threats to women. People are being killed. They're throwing around bombs. They're attacking the police forces.

This is a land that has embraced refugees and shared everything with them. There was no reason to attack these people.

People had to cross rivers in boats to escape. 500 people had to leave their homes overnight because of the sudden extremists. Only Muslims were spared.

Locals say this has been going on since 2020.

Please, I'm begging with folded hands, keep the Bengali Hindus in your mind. Look at what they're facing. This is scary. If even the Liberal and safe Bengal can be turned overnight, no place is safe. What tf are people supposed to do?

Newsflash, Hindus have a divine feminine, and no she's not just pretty pretty as Lakshmi, or pure and simple as Saraswati, she's also rage and destruction like Kali and Durga. If you don't believe in this, you're a misogynist, because why will you see only a masculine figure as God?

And what about transwomen? To feel more close to womanhood, they wear churi, payal, and bindi too. Are you telling me that's wrong?

Hindu traditions and festivals just enslave women and reinforce patriarchal practices, karwa chauth for example, a festival where a married woman has to fast and stay famished for whole 24 hours, NO water and food and some of them don’t even swallow their own saliva and why? for the long life and well being of her husband. Husbands are placed on a pedestal in hinduism, he is more revered than god sometimes while reducing women to obedient and self sacrificing caretakers . It reinforces the idea that a woman’s purpose revolves around a man’s needs, his health, his happiness, his survival while her own identity and agency is considered as irrelevant. In this religion women’s existence will always be tied to men and are expected to embrace such misogynistic ideals or else she’ll be labelled as a “too westernised housewife” or other names they love calling when you go against the system

You guys do understand that it's a translation from either modern time or the 20th century.

Translation is the key word here

Girl I was going through Brahma Vaivarta Puran and the description of the ladies of golok made me grimace internally ....

I-

WHY .

I'm so confused cuz wtf is THAT 😭😭😭😭

Everything was fine untill that made them uneasy line came in...

What kinda men writting woman trend is this 😭😭😭😭😭

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED WITH WHAT'S WRITTEN BELOW THAT I'M IN TEARS WTF

😭😭😭😭

How brainwashed do you have to be to not see the truth.

Fellas what were those terrorists looking for when they asked the men to pull down their pants? The Aadhar Card?

We're not dealing with a regular nation. We're dealing with a military junta, a rouge terrorist state thats citizens are brainwashed since childhood to hate India and Hindus. It's their entire raison d'etre. Had Hutatma Tukaram Omble not caught the Pakistani ¡slamist terrorist Ajmal Kasab alive, Pakistanis would've called 26/9 Mumbai terror attack as inside job or false flag, and Indian leftists would've called it RSS or Hindutva attack (actress Alia Bhatt's father Mahesh Bhatt was already blaming RSS until Kasab's identity was revealed, let's not forget how his son Rahul Bhatt was friends with the mastermind Dawood Headley). We are indebted to Hutatma Tukaram Omble. Om Shanti Shanti.

So I just found this out about Shiv Charcha. So "charcha" here doesn't just mean discussion. It could be a simple gathering in the name of Shiv. Where bhajans and kirtans are performed to praise the deity. Which was exactly what was happening yesterday.

We have a family from UP doing "Shiv charcha" today and I can't get enough of it🥰😇

They've called all families in our society who are from UP and everyone's singing bhajans and kirtans in bhojpuri and awadhi. By everyone, I mean, it's all the women. My mother's also there. And hearing it all feels so good. It is because it's quite rare that this kind of event happens. And yeah connecting to the language is an added benefit here.

Does anyone know what a "Shiv charcha" is though?

श्री रुक्मिणी द्वादशी 🪷

Rukmini Devi, the Queen Consort of Krishna is the Swarupa-shakti (mulaprakriti), and she is the Queen / Mother of the Divine World (jagatkatri), Dwaraka/Vaikunthah.

You are Jaanki, you are Lakshmi, the one who resides on Lord Vishnu's chest. You are the empress of Vaikuntha! You always shower blessings on your Devotees.

-Rukmini Ashtakam

कृष्णप्रिये नमस्तुभ्यं विदर्भाधिपनंदिनि । सर्वकामप्रदे देवि गृहाणार्घ्यं नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ २२ ॥

O daughter of ruler of Vidarbha & the beloved of Kṛṣṇa! We bow down to you. O Goddess & giver of all wishes! please accept our offerings of worship and we pay our obeisance to you

Oh the one who sparkles by the beauty of all limbs! By all these I know that you the most beautiful, the daughter of the Bhoja king (Rukmini), are the second soul of Krishna

Krishna bring whipped 🤭:

"My mind is always fixed on Rukmini, just like hers is on me. I can’t even sleep at night."

"Oh no hindu women wearing bindi, mehendi, churi payal, sindur?? No no no it's all a sign of patriarchy" "It's so misogynistic"

Because God forbid women want to look like the divine feminine.

And what do these people even mean by that? Do you think other cultures/religions don't have such traditions? Women in Asia have used jewellery and elegant garments and makeup as a way to enhance their beauty.

Hindu traditions and festivals just enslave women and reinforce patriarchal practices, karwa chauth for example, a festival where a married woman has to fast and stay famished for whole 24 hours, NO water and food and some of them don’t even swallow their own saliva and why? for the long life and well being of her husband. Husbands are placed on a pedestal in hinduism, he is more revered than god sometimes while reducing women to obedient and self sacrificing caretakers . It reinforces the idea that a woman’s purpose revolves around a man’s needs, his health, his happiness, his survival while her own identity and agency is considered as irrelevant. In this religion women’s existence will always be tied to men and are expected to embrace such misogynistic ideals or else she’ll be labelled as a “too westernised housewife” or other names they love calling when you go against the system

Sorry but the translation is giving me an ick

So no one ever told me about Ram ji roasting the moon and listing it faults because it's just not as beautiful as Maa Sita after looking at her once in the gardens? No one?

And then he just returned to his Guru like nothing happened? As if he didn't just talk to the moon and insult it?

I generally prefer Valmiki Ramayan but the Balkand in Ramcharitmanas is pure gold.

No. Chandra isn't a she/they. Hindus have never seen Chandra as a female.

Whoever translated this did a very bad job. I think I did point that out already in one of my previous reblogs.

So no one ever told me about Ram ji roasting the moon and listing it faults because it's just not as beautiful as Maa Sita after looking at her once in the gardens? No one?

And then he just returned to his Guru like nothing happened? As if he didn't just talk to the moon and insult it?

I generally prefer Valmiki Ramayan but the Balkand in Ramcharitmanas is pure gold.