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Title: Navratri & Periods: Can Women Visit Temples? | Sadhguru
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Description: Sadhguru explores how the traditional belief that women need not worship during their menstrual cycles came about, and whether it is relevant today.
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Transcript:
(00:01) Namaskarum Sguru. I am Swapna from Fiji and I have a question on Sapna from Fiji. >> Fiji. >> Fiji Islands. Yes. Uh Namaskarum. I have a question on um the quality of being feminine as Navaratri is uh coming in one or two days. I would like to know if it is okay for menstruating women to do offer prayers in our homes while we are on our menstruation cycle or is it okay to go to a temple and offer our prayers um while we on a cycle whether it is okay or not okay and if you can shed some light on this please.
(00:45) Thank you. The Indian origin people in Fiji are still two centuries ago when you went there from India. You're still in the same place. Other Indian mo women have moved on. [applause] Say uh you must understand this why these things were spoken in the past. One important thing is see there was never a holiday for a woman.
(01:26) You must understand this even now in many homes it's still true. Today is a holiday for everybody. Office and school break means a woman is working overtime. Okay, maybe man is pitching in a little bit today, but those days it wouldn't be so. And there was not just one woman in the house.
(01:52) Generally, there were multiple women because joint families and stuff. I have been in a joint family there were where there were over 400, you know, people. So nearly about 150 plus women are there. So out of this some are taking care of children, some are cooking, some are cleaning, some are doing things. The I mean distribution of labor is happening because men go out and work in the fields and stuff.
(02:21) Women take care of these things and uh see uh I know uh there are some feminists but let us look at this sensibly without any prejudice. Tell me as a woman on those days of the month, would you like a break? >> Especially if it's hard physical work that you're doing. >> Hello. >> If it's very hard physical work because everything was physical in those days.
(02:50) Cooking was not like uh you know you put it in the microwave. Not like that. There's cutting, grinding, lifting, bringing water, a enormous amount of physical labor. So those days they said you don't enter the kitchen you be now puja worship you're talking about see in my grandfather's place and all that puja room is like a third of this hall huge there are so many gods to be satisfied yes dozens and dozens of gods and goddesses the day a woman is allotted to do puja because different days different women are allotted. So that cuz puja is a
(03:35) strenous process to do. Puja means you must take some special water not just some muddy water from somewhere. Special water from that part of the river. You carry it, bring it, clean the puja room, prepare all these things, put flowers, make the prasadam, this that a whole lot of work.
(03:59) This is worship is not simply okay. It was a it was an elaborate process. So again she got a break if she's at that time of the month she doesn't have to do it. So generally she was given break from everything because that's the only holiday she got in a month. There are no Sundays, Mondays, Fridays, nothing for her.
(04:21) Every day is on and on and on. At least when she's in a way a woman is molting when this is going on. You know something of the old is going away and something new is beginning to form in the system. And above all women did not have periods every month in those days because they had children and they were nursing the children.
(04:42) So 2 3 years they wouldn't have if they have periods it's only for a few months and again they're pregnant and it will go on in her life from the age of 14 to 45 or whatever if she delivers five six children she might have seen uh maybe a few dozen periods. I want you to know I met a lady in Syria where after her first period when she was 13 plus she's never had a period till she's 50 because she always had children and children continuously no you may say oh my god now at that time at that time I want you to understand even in the beginning of 20th
(05:25) century the population on the planet was only 1.6 6 billion. Today definitely is. Oh my god. All right. So if you look back a thousand years ago, what was our population? It was in a few hundred thousand across the planet. So there's not enough human beings, only wild animals everywhere. And they pick up your babies and go away whenever they want. Yes.
(05:50) How many people in the you know before let's say 18th century or before 16th century in this country how many families have lost their children to tigers? Just find out the stat statistics are astounding because almost every family would have lost one child to the tigers. Today you're worshiping the tigers because their numbers have diminished.
(06:17) But when they were breeding well they were just eating all over the place. There was enough wildlife but people had to go into the forest for so many things. And you know suppose a mother and child goes into the forest to pick something. When the tiger comes the child doesn't run as fast as a mother. So child goes.
(06:40) As it is happening with the wildlife, the older ones will run faster, the younger ones get caught. You know the same thing. If you look at the stats, it's astounding number of children picked up. So most women did not have a few dozen periods in their life or maybe let us say a 100 periods in her entire reproductive life. So those days they said take a break from cooking, from worship, from your man, from everything.
(07:11) But today that's not the case. For most of the time women are not in a reproductive process that is not needed. So now this period is being looked at as a big thing because it's happening every month. It was never happening every month for most healthy women. It was happening once in a way. So those days they said a break don't have to do anything.
(07:36) Giving you freedom even not to pray is a tremendous relief. Hello. You don't have to cook for your family. You don't even have to serve God on that day. Live everybody alone. Take care of yourself. Isn't it a wonderful process? We are looking at it from the wrong side of history, wrong side of times in which we are. So you can go wherever you want.
(08:02) [applause]
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Title: Navratri & Periods: Can Women Visit Temples? | Sadhguru
Author Name: Sadhguru
Description: Sadhguru explores how the traditional belief that women need not worship during their menstrual cycles came about, and whether it is relevant today.
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Transcript:
(00:01) Namaskarum Sguru. I am Swapna from Fiji and I have a question on Sapna from Fiji. >> Fiji. >> Fiji Islands. Yes. Uh Namaskarum. I have a question on um the quality of being feminine as Navaratri is uh coming in one or two days. I would like to know if it is okay for menstruating women to do offer prayers in our homes while we are on our menstruation cycle or is it okay to go to a temple and offer our prayers um while we on a cycle whether it is okay or not okay and if you can shed some light on this please.
(00:45) Thank you. The Indian origin people in Fiji are still two centuries ago when you went there from India. You're still in the same place. Other Indian mo women have moved on. [applause] Say uh you must understand this why these things were spoken in the past. One important thing is see there was never a holiday for a woman.
(01:26) You must understand this even now in many homes it's still true. Today is a holiday for everybody. Office and school break means a woman is working overtime. Okay, maybe man is pitching in a little bit today, but those days it wouldn't be so. And there was not just one woman in the house.
(01:52) Generally, there were multiple women because joint families and stuff. I have been in a joint family there were where there were over 400, you know, people. So nearly about 150 plus women are there. So out of this some are taking care of children, some are cooking, some are cleaning, some are doing things. The I mean distribution of labor is happening because men go out and work in the fields and stuff.
(02:21) Women take care of these things and uh see uh I know uh there are some feminists but let us look at this sensibly without any prejudice. Tell me as a woman on those days of the month, would you like a break? >> Especially if it's hard physical work that you're doing. >> Hello. >> If it's very hard physical work because everything was physical in those days.
(02:50) Cooking was not like uh you know you put it in the microwave. Not like that. There's cutting, grinding, lifting, bringing water, a enormous amount of physical labor. So those days they said you don't enter the kitchen you be now puja worship you're talking about see in my grandfather's place and all that puja room is like a third of this hall huge there are so many gods to be satisfied yes dozens and dozens of gods and goddesses the day a woman is allotted to do puja because different days different women are allotted. So that cuz puja is a
(03:35) strenous process to do. Puja means you must take some special water not just some muddy water from somewhere. Special water from that part of the river. You carry it, bring it, clean the puja room, prepare all these things, put flowers, make the prasadam, this that a whole lot of work.
(03:59) This is worship is not simply okay. It was a it was an elaborate process. So again she got a break if she's at that time of the month she doesn't have to do it. So generally she was given break from everything because that's the only holiday she got in a month. There are no Sundays, Mondays, Fridays, nothing for her.
(04:21) Every day is on and on and on. At least when she's in a way a woman is molting when this is going on. You know something of the old is going away and something new is beginning to form in the system. And above all women did not have periods every month in those days because they had children and they were nursing the children.
(04:42) So 2 3 years they wouldn't have if they have periods it's only for a few months and again they're pregnant and it will go on in her life from the age of 14 to 45 or whatever if she delivers five six children she might have seen uh maybe a few dozen periods. I want you to know I met a lady in Syria where after her first period when she was 13 plus she's never had a period till she's 50 because she always had children and children continuously no you may say oh my god now at that time at that time I want you to understand even in the beginning of 20th
(05:25) century the population on the planet was only 1.6 6 billion. Today definitely is. Oh my god. All right. So if you look back a thousand years ago, what was our population? It was in a few hundred thousand across the planet. So there's not enough human beings, only wild animals everywhere. And they pick up your babies and go away whenever they want. Yes.
(05:50) How many people in the you know before let's say 18th century or before 16th century in this country how many families have lost their children to tigers? Just find out the stat statistics are astounding because almost every family would have lost one child to the tigers. Today you're worshiping the tigers because their numbers have diminished.
(06:17) But when they were breeding well they were just eating all over the place. There was enough wildlife but people had to go into the forest for so many things. And you know suppose a mother and child goes into the forest to pick something. When the tiger comes the child doesn't run as fast as a mother. So child goes.
(06:40) As it is happening with the wildlife, the older ones will run faster, the younger ones get caught. You know the same thing. If you look at the stats, it's astounding number of children picked up. So most women did not have a few dozen periods in their life or maybe let us say a 100 periods in her entire reproductive life. So those days they said take a break from cooking, from worship, from your man, from everything.
(07:11) But today that's not the case. For most of the time women are not in a reproductive process that is not needed. So now this period is being looked at as a big thing because it's happening every month. It was never happening every month for most healthy women. It was happening once in a way. So those days they said a break don't have to do anything.
(07:36) Giving you freedom even not to pray is a tremendous relief. Hello. You don't have to cook for your family. You don't even have to serve God on that day. Live everybody alone. Take care of yourself. Isn't it a wonderful process? We are looking at it from the wrong side of history, wrong side of times in which we are. So you can go wherever you want.
(08:02) [applause]
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