Woman's Day : Celebrating the feminine essence !!!

Today, as we, the lovely ladies across the world come together to celebrate ‘Woman’s Day’, thoughts are rushing up in my mind like a gamut of mixed emotions. Reflecting and analyzing further the emotions created by the thoughts gives me a feeling of power and beauty both together and in equality. Power, which means authority and an ability to control things, a left-brain function, is basically masculine in nature whereas emotions and feelings, expression of inner being, a right – brain function, is so feminine in nature. Thus word ‘WOMAN’ itself is a combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. 

Our Indian mythology and culture has always portrayed and worshiped the importance of ‘Woman’ in the form of ‘SHAKTI’ since the beginning. SHAKTI – as the name suggests, has always been empowering, inspiring and facilitating mankind since generations as a mother, sister, wife, friend, beloved, teacher and counselor and this is a known fact since ages.

I would like to share a beautiful quote that I happened to read in the last few days. "The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting; force is losing its dominance, and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age - less masculine and more permeated with the feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced." - Abdu'l-Baha

As I read this quote, an instant reaction which popped up my mind was – this is the real meaning of “WOMAN DAY – it is a WO-MAN’s DAY”. A day which should be celebrated not only by the lovely ladies but also by the generous gentlemen, who, in the last few decades have adapted to a few characteristics of their female counterparts. Being an educator, everyday I get to observe this winds of change where Daddy’s are also balancing their roles right from changing diapers to dropping children at the school to attending PTMs and what not !!!

I believe that the real essence of Woman’s Day is not about celebrating being a woman but about celebrating the strengths and virtue of feminine character. On this Woman’s Day, let us come together to celebrate liberation in thoughts and strength in our nature as women rather than running the race to prove that we are equal to men. Because - being feminine in nature and thoughts is the greatest attribute that can serve mankind and it can be achieved by anyone with a gentle heart J