Most of the modern thinkers believe that – the ancients were controlling the women and were not giving freedom to women. Consequently they think the past societies are male dominant and women were suppressed. These are all the feminist points of view and the fact is totally different.
The ancient societies were under the control of wise men and sages. They had the knowledge of all facets of life. They were more knowledgeable than the present day scholars and scientists in many ways. The problem with our scientists is that they are good at only one or few subjects or angles of life and world. They study the different angles of life and world as separate entities but, unfortunately not put together, as a whole. The present scientists and scholars don’t have the holistic perspective towards life and the world.
For example take a scientist good at genetics. He is very good at his subject and is not aware of other sciences. Out of his discovery he creates a genetically modified seed, say ‘god seed’ - that grows fast and gives a far better yield than others. Now, the world is happy and he is given some prestigious awards and his seed goes viral. But, after 10 or 20 years or so, people will get some new kind of genetic disease and the research teams will dig for the reasons. After painful and long research they find that the ‘god seed’ is the reason for the disease; the genetically modified 'god seed' upon consumption has modified the human gene and is the reason for the 'new' disease. As usual, the protests will take place to ban the ‘god seed’ and the rest of the story is well known to you. The same is the case with any modern invention and this is because we are not looking at the word in a holistic perspective. An invention that is good in one angle creates so many problems in other dimensions of life/world.
But, the ancient scholars had the holistic vision and knew what would happen in advance of the implementations. So, they didn't do the mistakes of the present scientists.
All the ancient rules and customs are good in one or the other way but, the only problem is that the root causes of them have been lost.
In the same way, letting women wander along with men creates many problems. Many of you know the different problems [benefits too] and I will present a novel problem here.
Rule One: As all know the fact, the fruits will have the traits of the tree it comes from. The child will have the traits of its mother and father – at least in a latent form genetically speaking. This is a modern scientific fact.
Rule Two: Another fact of science that comes from Charles Darwin is that – Natural Selection. A modified form of it is ‘forced selection’ that the ancient scholars and especially the sages of ancient India were aware of. According to this – if a certain trait is not used that will be suppressed and become weaker and weaker and would disappear alter on.
Rule Three: Another scientific fact is that if a person is wandering in the society – that person will become ‘rash’ due to interaction with the society but, of course it has different benefits too suitable especially for the modern man.
So, if the women are confined to houses, they will become softer [innocent too] and softer internally [Rule 3] and their ‘rashness’ too will gradually decrease and the ‘softness’ is forced onto them [Rule 2]. So, naturally this will increase the softness of women and their children too will be softer (less brutal, less animal in nature) [rule 1]. With passing generations the descendants of the women will become softer and softer and they will give birth to good human beings, more matured human beings as 'softness' is connected with 'goodness' and 'maturity' as well.
Especially in India, this is the reason for India giving birth to innumerable spiritual giants, apart from many other customs and rules in India including the Caste System. The western countries didn't breed MANY soft persons like Buddha or Ram or Mahavir – as their women were not soft enough, due to the lack of these rules and customs in their societies.
Even in the west as well, you could read the 'softness' of Mary, the mother of Jesus. If she were not soft enough, definitely Jesus wouldn't have been soft and hence not divine.
The present society can’t breed soft persons like – Buddha or Ram - for the present women are not soft enough to give births so such spiritual giants. The present society, where the women are left to wonder freely along with men, can breed only rash people and naturally the society too will become unbearable and cruel.
So, this is the main reason for confining the women to their houses in the past. The ancients - they didn't have any grudge over the women and they didn't want to control the women. In fact the ancients were more freedom lovers and much more loving in nature than - we are, the modern people.
Magastanes, the Greek tourist to India, around 2500 BC in his famous diary “Indica” had written – “I haven’t seen an Indian man or woman to speak untruth or being unchaste”. Do you think this commitment is possible without love and affection towards their women? Can such people of love, force or ill treat their women?
The ancients had better wisdom than we - the modern people are in many ways and created better society but, we are short of understanding and prejudiced and think bad or wrong of them. That’s all! But, nothing is wrong with many [all?] of the past traditions and beliefs. They came to being after deeper under understanding and insight from the sages and ancient scholars.
If out of my stupidity, I am unable to understand Einstein’s relativity - can I say it is wrong? On the parallel lines, the ancient customs too have some reason and logic behind them but, due to our 'lack of insight' we think they are wrong! Unfortunately!
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