Justice in the Hands of Torture - Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Where the role of women is rightly recognized and they are held in properesteem, their words of criticism and advice sought and heeded whenevernecessary, there alone do prosperity and dharma abide; there alone willGods and Goddesses make their visit.Many women have stood firm unshakably when even men haveshaken and trembled. Their emotions and emotional insight havesometimes shone as a beacon light to even enemies, not to speak offriends and well-wishers. Their sacrifices too, which they make,may be taking their stand on their own characteristic sentiments,have saved and immortalized several great causes. All these takentogether can only tell us about the need for evaluating the woman'srole in our society more properly. Even today, if our country andits heritage is great and immortal, the real credit for it all goes toour women, the mothers and sisters of this land.The woman is as complex as Mother Nature Herself. Nature iscomplex simply because only in being so she can cause and perpetuateexistence. Nature has to embody both attraction and repulsionsimultaneously, force and friction alike; evolution and involutionequally. Only when all these opposites are concurrently atplay, the elusive creation and its progress will be feasible.Naturally there is little wonder in the woman, who too is thesource of both creation and preservation, being a strange complexityof emotions, insights and what not. Though complex and multifaced,she is graceful and exemplary. Though soft and kind, she canbe equally hard and firm. Though loving and accommodating, shecan easily afford to be intolerant and unyielding.In the Ashram during the past few days, we have been discussingabout the intricacies of human behaviour, the notorieties which the3