#sabarimala

[ritish16]

Shabiramala Swamy Sharanam Ayyappa.

[fantodsdhrit]

she has—white lotus renaissance beneath her feet before she enters sabarimala temple she never does the menstrual wheel rolls on it has a face of feathered revolution, isthmus liberty of spinal cord in pursuit of worshipped moist sandstone, the structures are held by a chain of hands not iron or the great wall; what expo held on moon's surface brings a starshipped goddess to rescue yoni before semi-cohered gods in saffron can make a move bastille is a no-show what bellows pools into immortality, medusas are vital and—not their heads alone.

[amuseoffyre]

'Women's Wall' Stretches Across Kerala In Reaction To Sabarimala Protests

State health minister KK Shylaja led the chain at Kasargod while senior CPM leader Brinda Karat was the last person at the end of the chain in Thiruvananthapuram.

This is incredible. According to reports, up to 5 million women standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a chain that extended 620km in a stand against oppression and for equality.

[arjuna-vallabha]

Sabarimala temple, Kerala

[lemonade-of-gods]

Lack of understanding Hinduism and the absurdity of Sabarimala

I think it’s sad how we fail to understand the whole concept of Hinduism.

And I would have said that it’s just NRIs who don’t get it (Case example: me, a (now) former GCC NRI), when it’s actually a good deal of Indians in general. A lot of us don’t exactly get the very fact that sets our religion apart from others like Christianity and Islam.

The very concept of God in Hinduism is that God is within you. There is no specific Devil or Angels in Hinduism because both the good and the evil resides within you. The concept of prayer is to look within yourself and question yourself; God is more of a tool for you to use in order to go through that questioning process.

Hinduism at its core is one of the most liberal religions because there is no compulsion to pray. You wish to pray? Fantastic. You don’t wish to pray? You’re still taking care of yourself, which is just another way of attending to God. And going to the temple isn’t the only way to pray to God because God is everywhere. The personal shrines, the idols of the same gods in different temples... screw it, anything can be classified as god, be it rocks or plants or rivers. It’s not the idol we worship; it’s the essence of the god we believe in that we worship.

And that brings us to the absurdity of the Sabarimala situation. If you haven’t noticed, the only ones who aren’t protesting for the removal of the ban were and are the women devotees. Because they get what others do not: it’s the same god.

Ayyappan in the Punkunnam temple is the same as Ayyappan in the Sabarimala temple. The two are different aspects of the same god. When the ban was placed in 1991, the women devotees merely migrated to the temples with the sanctum of the Sastha, where he as a householder holds no restrictions for any of his devotees and were fine with it. Because fasting for 41 days, having your hair and nails grow without checking it, maintaining celibacy during the period and then making the journey solely on foot (and it’s a hilly region with a rough terrain) to pray to the same god, who they could pray to at the closest temple to them without all these rules or any ban restricting them was something they were already trying to avoid. That’s what landed the ban in the first place.

The only people actively protesting it are the non hindus and politicians, the latter of the two making it significantly worse with their visits and actions and the former dragging the mess out as much as they can. You can bet it’s going to last for at least a year.

(Even speaking from a feminist’s point of view: Garbharakshambika is a temple in Tamil Nadu catering exclusively for women (Garbha literally means womb). And yet nobody is protesting over this with the same energy they use for the Sabarimala issue?)

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#Sabarimala Temple Shuts

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100 years back photo ayyappa Swamy temple in Sabarimala