Chapter- 20

UPLIFTMENT OF FEMALES
(Mahilonnatee)
||Saluatations to Shree Gurudeva ||

Glory of motherhood; Reason for interdiction for Woman in the classics & granthas and basical characterestics of females

Gramonnateecha paayaa shikshana | udyaache raashtra aajache santaan |
yaa saathee aadarsha paahijet Gurujana | Raashtranirmaatey ||1||

Eduction is only the sound foundtion of the upliftment of the villages. Today's child generation will become the makers of the nation. So the most ideal and virtueous teachers are indespensible to provide them proper education. ||1||

Vidyaa guruhooni thora | Aadarsha maateche upakaara |
Garbha paasoni tiche sanskaar | baalakaanwaree ||2||

The obligations of the mother are more than the obligations of the teacher who imparts knowledge to the child. Mother initiates deep impressions upon the child since it comes into existence in her womb. ||2||

`Jichyaa haatee paalanyaachee doree | Teech jagaate uddharee'
Aisee warnilee maatechee thoree | shekado guruhoonihi ||3||

Therefore mother's greatness is described as greater than hundreds of the masters who impart learning to the child. In a very famous quotation, it is stated "The mother who holds the line of the cradle of a child can only uplift the whole world" ||3||

Maatechyaa swabhaave putraachee ghadana |Tyaas ujwala thevee tiche vartana |
Streechyaa tejaavareecha purushaache mothepana | aise aahe ||4||

The child is shaped according to the nature and the temperatment of its mother. Her virtueous behaviour makes the child brilliant. The greatness of a man entirely depends upon the splendour of a woman. ||4||

Mhanatee jaree `Baap taisaa lek' | pari maaooleeche mahatwa adhika |
Maatrushakteenechi waadhatee sakleek | muley chaaritryaane ||5||

It is said that `The child is the image of its father; it is alike his father'. Yet the importance of mother in regard to the child is specially more important than the spirit of above quotation. It is the potency of the mother that through her character, she brings up the child and tends it in all aspects. ||5||

Purusha sarva kaahee karee | pari baandhalaa raahe gharaa baaheree |
sarva vichaar ghewonee aacharee | Tareech shanti tyaasahi laabhe ||6||

Man can enact everything outside his home yet he is tied with so many bonds in the outside world. If he enacts with thorough and proper thinking and consideration, then only he can seek peace and satisfaction. ||6||

uttama mahilaa hechi karee | Aapule ghara breedaasaha sawaree |
Moola baal aadarsha karee | wari premalapana sarvaanshee ||7||

It is the duty of an excellent female that she maintains her home with the prestige of humanity. She makes her off springs ideal and maintains the loving and affectionate behaviour with all in and outside her home. ||7||

Yaach gune `Maatru devo bhava' | Vedaane aarambheech kelaa gourava |
Navaratnaanchee khaan apoorva | Maatrujaati mhanoni yaa ||8||

Because of her these virtues the vedaas have offered great admiration and respect in their very beginning by quoting "Maatru devo bhava". `Always hold mother as God'. This great respect is offered by the vedaas because woman is the mine of the most precious human-diamonds. ||8||

Pralhaadaachee Kayaadhu aayee | Chhatrapateechi Jijaabaayee |
Kousalyaa, Dewakee aadi sarvhi | Vandilyaa granthee ||9||

In the holy scriptures, salutations with high esteem are offered to all mothers such as Kayaadhu-the mother of Pralhad; Jijabai-the mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji; Kousalyaa-the mother of Lord Ram and Dewakee- the mother of Lord Krishna. ||9||

Kaahee puraanee saangitalee deekhshaa | karaavee stree jaateechee upekhsha |
Tee hotee saadhanaachee shikhshaa | sarvatoparee ||10||

In some mythologies (purana), it is stated as the rules of conduct that the females hould be prohibited and kept away. The real fact behind such prohibition was for imposing a punishment to the spiritual seeker in the period of his enacting spiritual practices. ||10||

Viyogaane vairaagya drudha karaave | Mana indriya sukhaatooni paratawaave |
Mhanoni vishaya pravrutteeche godawe | nishedhile tyaat ||11||

The lust and love for the carnal pleasures and the inclination towards them are denied to the spiritul seeker so that keeping away from the woman, he should grow extreem desirelessness and asceticism and turn his mind away from lewd instincts. ||11||

Vairaag aat na kathile doshavirodha | nasalee saadhanaat aapadaa |
keerteet nasalee kaahee nindaa | Tari poorna nohe saadhan ||12||

In regard to desirelessness (asceticism) if there had been no mention about restrictions and prohibitions upon the vices of extreme lust and passions for enjoyment of carnal pleasures; if there do not exist any hardships and difficulties in the way of spiritual practices; if there does not exist reviling or reproaching in the glory, the means of the spiritual practices should be considered as incomplete in itself. ||12||

Mhanoni indriya-vishay-dosha darshana | dehaache nashwaratwa ongalapana |
Hey vairaagyaartha kele kathana | vyakti nindaa nawhe tee ||13||

Therefore defects and vices about the senses and their objects of enjoyment have been strongly shown in those scriptures. The human body is perishible and dirty. This is stated to create desirelessness about the attachment for the body. Therefore it should not be considered as the reproachment of any individual (the Female). ||13||

Jethe jethe mana mohooni dhaave | Tethooni tyaas paratawoni laawaave |
Lahaan mulaapari saangaave | chhee-chhee aise mhanoni ||14||

Whereever mind gets attracted and forms attachment, wherever it hurls towards the worldly and carnal enjoyments; it has to be controlled and turned away from them. It is like telling a child to restrict and to turn away from some dirty things "shit! shit! don't go there!" ||14||

Hey purushaas kathile striyesaathee | Tochi bhaava purushaa vishayee tiche potee |
Tethe kawanaachee tuchchhataa mothee? chhi! chhi! aise mhanoni ||15||

As this prohibition about Females is told to man, the same is the sense for the woman to bear about man. Now who is superior to whom? Both male and Female are considered equally at par and our sciences have condemned the lust and passions for carnal enjoyments and objects of senses for both. ||15||

Pari chhee-chhee nehameecha mhatale | Tari paalan poshanachi bighadale |
Sansaar chakrachi thamboni gele | Tyaatoonahi phutatee heen marga ||16||

But if all people begin to condemn by saying "shit! shit!" and turn away from the worldly matters; all arrangements of tending and bringing up the new generations will get impaired and damaged. If the cycle of the world comes to stand still, the vile and evil tendencies will crop up from such circumstances. ||16||

Mhanoni vidheene sevana uchit bolile | Mahileveena vishwa na chaale |
kaaya hote purushaane kele? abhadra zale ghara saare ||17||

The sequence of the succession of the genertions of the universe can not be maintained without the co-operation of the female. Therefore the sciences have directed to enjoy the sexual pleasures following the regular ritual conditions (i.e. to enjoy sex at the time and in the period after the monthly course of the female) What can man alone do to maintain the world life? Without the woman, the house becomes ominous miserable and unfortunate. ||17||

Gharachaa uttam kaamadhnda | hey mahilechechi lakhshana sadaa |
Aliyaa-geliyaasi aapadaa | Mahilaa asata na waate ||18||

Maintaining the household activities neatly and excellently is the notable characterestic of the householder female. When the Female is present in the house to look after the visitor or the guest, no difficulty or no problem remains to make all necessary arrangements to welcome and treat that visitor. ||18||

Khastaa sosooni paricharyaa | Premalapane baareek kaaryaa |
karoo jaanatee uttam bhaaryaa | na kantaalata kalajeene ||19||

The excellent house wife emaciates herself in rendering loving and affectionate services to all members of her family. For this, she has to enact all major and minor trifle duties with great care, with affectionate behaviour and without the sense of tiring or tidiousness about them. ||19||

Purush-rhudayaa na kale jewadhe | striyeche samajane titake gaadhe |
Tiyechyaa bhaawanaa-gangeche pawaade | varnile na jaatee maazyaane ||20||

Woman possesses profound knowledge more, than the man holds consciousness in his mind. (Maharaj says) it is impossible for me to describe the holy Ganga of her sensibility by adoring and admiring through admiring songs in her honour. ||20||

Sarvaangeena ekataanataa | Tijaseech ghade ekaatmataa |
Je je tharaveel te sarvathaa | karonee sodeel maaoolee tee ||21||

Only Woman is capable of keeping unmoved concentration in all the matters related to her home and household duties. She only is capable of becoming one with all by getting envolved and absorbed with them. That loving mother only can carry on whatever she has in her mind to do and finally she gets it completed. ||21||

Jagaat asatee naana jeeva | sakalaans jaaheer tyaanchaa bhaava |
pari maayaalupanaachaa gourava | Maaoolees sarisaa naahee ||22||

Innumerable kinds and varieties of living beings are existing in this world. All are well acquainted with the traits and characterestics of their temperaments and natural tendencies. But no living being possesses the highest esteemable quality or virtue of compassion and affection which only the mother possesses for all. This is really a commendable and glorious particularity of her nature. ||22||

Dewaane nirmilee hee khshitee | Tiche udaree khaanee kitee |
Pari maaooleejaisee premala deepti | kothech naahee ||23||

The Great God had produced this creation of the whole universe. Infinite mines of living being may be existing in the bally of this creation. But you will never find the compassion and deep sense of affection anywhere except in the mother. ||23||

Maaooleeche swabhaavakarma | Tochi jagee mhanavilaa maanava dharma |
Maaooleeche utkat prema | Mhanonicha deva priya lokaa ||24||

Whatever enactments are performed casually and through her natural tendencies, they all are called as `the duty of humanity' in this world. All are fully aware of and acquainted with the unlimited exceptional love of mother. So people yearn to love God (as they look God in the form of kind and loving mother.) ||24||

Santee maaooleeche roop dharile | Tareech te devapanaasi paawale |
Naanaa saadhane karoni phirale | Tyaannaa na gawasale deva-roopa ||25||

When the holy saints could put themselves into the form of loving mother (as they wanted to love God profoundly) then only they could seek the divinity. Those, who ran behind the different ways and practices could not even seek the knowledge of the form of God. (Divinity is beyond their approach). ||25||

Te hey swatah siddha maaooleepana | streeye angee sahajachi ghadana |
Tyaachaa vikaas karaavaya poorna | uttam shikhshana paahije ||26||

That most excellent motherly sense has very naturally been imbibed in the form of the woman. To cherish and develop this excellent virtue in the woman, it is very indespensible to give proper education and learning to all females. ||26||

Stree-dakhshataa vichitrachi aahe | Tethe maanasaache lakhshachi na jaaye |
Tewadhe shikhshana mulaa baalaas ye | Tareech soya sansaaraachee ||27||

Woman possesses a strange cautiousness. Man's vision fails to reach and recognise that cautiousness in her. If that much learning from the woman can be provided to the children, it can be said that an excellent arrangement of the householder's life has been made. ||27||

Purush aahe pindwarnee | stree aahe dakhsha kaaranee |
Doghaanche swabhaava milataa khshanee | Hoya medinee vaikunthachi ||28||

Man gives importance to the reality that actually is noticed by him. But Woman is an image of cautiousness and pity. If these two temperaments of man and woman holding the above said virtues come together, the earth will become `Vaikuntha' (The residence of Lord Vishnu) ||28||

uttama purushaasave uttam naaree | Tari tyaachaa sansaar swargaaparee |
Purushaahooni kakanabharee | Mahila vareech raahatase ||29||

If the excellent man and excellent woman are united, their house life (mundane) becomes as excellent as the heaven. But if we campare them, we find that woman is superior to man in some degrees. ||29||

Jemwhaa purush hoya chintaatoor | Temwha gharachi lakshmee saange vichaar |
Hey mee paahile gharee apaar | prasanga yetaa jaanyaache ||30||

Whenever I have visited some houses on some occasions, I have especially experienced in every house that when the husband gets worried about some problems or hardships, the housewife comes forward and in a very right and proper direction she guides her husband to solve that problem or to overcome that hardship. ||30||

Nirikhshoni jee jee ghare paahilee | Tethe sarasataa anubhavaa aalee |
chaaturya lakhshane adhik disalee | Mahilaanmaajee ||31||

When I very carefully observed the houses in my visits, I have specially noticed that woman possesses the signs of segacity and intellignece more than man. ||31||

Maanavee swabhaawaache anumaan | prasang paahoni awadhaan |
Pudheel kaalaache anusandhaan | striyaanche thayee ||32||

Man's policy is to guess and estimate the situation upon what he sees actually happening on that particular occasion. But a catagorical speciality seems obviously in woman that she determines her policy keeping an eye upon the distant future to come before her and her family. ||32||

streelaach bhakti, streelaach dnyaan | Tilaach samyama, shahaanpana |
Tichyaanech haalatee waate sampoorna | sansaar chakre ||33||

Therefore I feel that a woman holds a perfect devotion. She possesses knowledge and wisdom more. I think, she holds the reins of all activities in the whole world and the world functions according to those reins. ||33||

Mhanaje purushaache kaaheech naahee | aise mhanane nohe kaahee |
sahaj swabhaawachee rachanaa hee | vishad karoni saangitalee ||34||

By this, I don't mean that the male has no importance. I wanted only to explain the natural structure of woman and of her casual temperament. ||34||

Hey sarva jaree saangitale | Taree tyaat bhaawanenechi rang bharale |
kaaran, mee naahee anubhavile | sukha dukkha sansaaraache ||35||

Whatever I have so far told about the females is through my feelings and imaginations. Because, I myself have never endured the sorrows and happiness in the householder's life nor I have experienced them actually and personally. ||35||

Maazaa sansaar vishwa aahe | sarva stree-purush baapa maaya |
Vyawahaar drushteene samajoon kaay | paahije te bolalo ||36||

In fact my mundane is the whole world. All males and females are my father and mother. Whatever I have uttered is only through the practical observations and what appealed to me. ||36||

Pari yaatooni ekachi ghyaave | striyesi kothe awheraave |
kothe maaoolee mhanoni paaya dharaave | olakhaave hey taaratamya ||37||

From whatever I have narrated so for, I want you to understand and recognise with proper discretion where the female is to be kept away and denied; where to offer our adoration and worship her holding her in high esteem of loving mother and where to consider her as our enemy. ||37|| - (contd)

Kothe waagawaave mitrabhaave | kothe devee mhanoni pujaave |
kothe vairinee saarakhe baghaave | sthala-kaal-paatra bhedaane ||38||

(- contd) (you should recognise) where you should treat the woman as your dear friend, where to worship her with devotion holding her as divine as a deity and where to treat her as your enemy with due consideration about proper or improper place, time and the worthiness. ||38||

Hey jyaa purushaannaa naahee kalale | Te jaree raanee vanee palaale |
Taree kaaya hote kele | songa aise warapaangee? ||39||

Those, who could not understand and could not have such a sense of discretion, if ran away into the forests and woods through scare for the woman, what can they achieve by taking such superficial sham? ||39||

Te jikade jaateel tikade | streechi aahe maage-pudhe |
Antaree-baaheree prakruteeche wedhe | jeewaapaade padale hey ||40||

They may roam here and there. They will find some woman or other ahead and behind them. It is a fact that the being is sieged by the `PRAKRUTEE' i.e. the natural disposition (in philosophy- the cause of this unreal world). ||40||

Kewal aapulyaa vruttee karitaa | kelee streenindaa tatwataa |
tethe maaooleepanaachiyaa maathaa | dosh detaa paap laage ||41||

Here, I have reproached the female through a philosophical view and only to take care of the tendencies of man. But if I put blame upon the motherhood (Maaooleepana), I will be committing a sin or a crime on my part. (Maharaj wants to say that Maaoolee kind mother of us is to be called to the virtues like generosity, pervasion, total love, integrity, forbearance etc.) ||41||

Mhanoni vairaagye stree awherilee | Tyaannee viveke saadhanaa kelee |
Tyaapudhe tyaaneech sambodhilee | Maaoolee teesa mhanoni ||42||

Therefore, those who had avoided and kept the female away for seeking firm desirelessness and asceticism, they enacted their spiritual practices with clear and sharp sight. Further, they had offered their heart felt salutations in high esteem to the woman considering her to be the divine loving mother. ||42||

DETERIORATION AND DOWNFALL OF THE COUNTRY IN UNCONCERN AND NEGLECTING THE WOMEN AND THE TREMENDOUS POWER OF THE FEMALE

Pari hey ekaangeepane nolakhitee | striyaanchi anaasthaa karitee |
yaanech zaalee ghor durgatee | samaaj jeevanaachee ||43||

But as the woman is neglected through one sided vision and lack of thoughtful considerations; as people failed in understanding and recognising the woman and as they didn't care for her, the whole social life has been distorted and had fallen down. ||43||

Heena-dubale kele stree-samaajaa | Taiseech pudhe waadhalee prajaa |
Mhanatee streejaat tewadhee pashooch samajaa | paashavee zaale jag saare ||44||

The whole woman society has been made feeble and miserable. So the off-springs produced by her carried and held the same vices and evil instincts. The human society also became miserable and wretched. And these people say that woman should be considered and treated as the beast. This is the reason why this world has become beastly. ||44||

Konee bhog vastu samajoni bhalee | sajawoni thewitee nusatee baahulee |
Tyaane gharo gharee shiralaa kalee | Abalaa banalee mayabhoomi ||45||

Some people consider woman as the thing of enjoyment of sexual pleasures; and keep her inside as a decorated doll. Due to this practice "KALEE"- i.e. quarrels and conflicts- has entered and occupied each and every house. Our motherland- abalaa (woman) has become infirm ||45||

Mhanatee stree hee gulaamachi asate | Tilaa hakka naaheet uddharaayaa purate |
Hey mhanane shobhenaa shahaanyaate | Swaarthaandhateche ||46||

Some say that woman is a parmanently slave and she doesn't have a right to seek her upliftment. It is not befitting to the wise to say so through blind selfishness. ||46||

Mhanatee stree hee kaaryaat dhond | Mhanoni tichyaa prgateet paadaavaa khanda |
Aishaaparee janoni waadhavitee dagad | Maargee aapulyaa ||47||

Then there are some others who say that woman is a stumbling block in their enactments so her way to progress should be broken down. In fact in doing so, those people invite the biggest stumbling block in their own prosperity and progress. ||47||

Waastawik donhee sanskaare janmatee | Aapulyaa prayatnech unnat hotee |
shewatee uddhaarahi tichyaach haatee | ase tiyechaa ||48||

In fact, man or woman come into being by taking birth according to their impressions of previous births. They both seek upliftment and prosperity through their own efforts. Finally woman's upliftment lies entirely in her own hands. ||48||

Kaaya deve dewataa bhinna kelyaa? Rushi patnyaa nawhatya saambhaalilyaa?
Kaaya mahilaat sadhwee naahee zalyaa | pahaa puraanee maagachyaa ||49||

Refer to our earlier mythologies. You will find the facts. Had the Gods kept the Deities and Goddesses away from them? Had not the great sages and seers maintained their wives carefully? Had not been there the examples of highly virtueous divine women in thepast? ||49|| (contd)

Kaaya striyaannee nahee lihile ved? Naahee kelaa brahma - vaada?
Naanaa kalaavidyaa bhed | yaat praveen kiteetaree ||50||

(—contd) Had not there been the most brilliant and highly talented women who had written some matters in the vedas? Had not they argued and debated upon the supreme Truth-Brahma? There had been lot of exceptionlly highly accomplished females who were expert in recognising the different arts and skills. ||50||

Kaaya striyaannee yuddha naahee kele? pati, putraa naahee protsaahana diley?
kaaya striyannee praan naahee arpile? breedaasathee? ||51||

Did not the females fight great wars? Did they not encouraged and inspired their husbands and sons to go on the battlefields to fight bravely? Did they not sacrificed their life force to maintain their sacred status and dignity? ||51||

Hjaaro striyaa phulaahooni naajuka | breedaasaathee jaahlyaa raakh |
Tyaanche karaave tewadhe koutaka | thodechi aahe ||52||

There were thousands of females more delicate than flowers But to keep their chestity and pure status and dignity, they bravely enacted immolation and sacrificed their life, reduced to ashes but maintained their chestity. We will surely fall short though we offer our admirations and adorations at any limit. ||52||

Striyesaarikhee mohinee naahee | Striyesaarakhee varraaginee naahee |
Striyesaarkhee mulaayam naahee | Aani kathor ranachandika ||53||

None except the woman exists in the world who holds a tremendous attraction and who can fascinate anybody. None but the woman exists who holds intense & extreme desirelessness and asceticism. None but the woman is more delicate and more tender than her and none other exists as harsh and merciless as the woman when she fights on the battlefield. She appears as the formidable and destructive deity on the battlefield. ||53||

Pari tiche lakhsha koneekade nyaave? kaaya sanskaar tichyaat bharaave ?
kaaya shikawoni tayaar karaave? Hey aahe sangatee haatee ||54||

But it entirely depends upon where her attention is to be turned; what excellent impressions are to be initiated upon her, what kind of learning is to be given to her to make her perfect and fine woman. ||54||

Sangati vishayaasakteechee asalee | Tari vedee bawaree stree banalee |
Tichyaat vairaagya oormi bharalee | Tari na gawase gundaasahi ||55||

If she gets associated with lewd and passionate companion, she becomes insane and bewilder. If she gets ascetic association; she will acquire such a forceful desirelessness and asceticism that even the mightiest and cruel ruffian will be unable to capture, captivate and control her. ||55||

Praan deyeel aapulyaa haate | pari bhrshta na hoyeel lobhe-bhaye te |
Aise vichaarachi paahije tethe | Bimbawile dheer purushe ||56||

A woman will readily commit suicide and sacrifice her life by her own strong will but she will never succumb to fear or greed and get herself defiled. It is the duty of courageous man to imbibe in her such high thinking. ||56||

Tyaasaathee tilaa taisechi thewaave | susangati dyaavee aani shikawaave |
Naate gote sarva taisechee raakhaave | streeche pratee ||57||

For this, the female should always be kept in such regular practice. She should be provided excellent and virtueous association. She should be given excellent knowledge. The sanctity in relations with her should be strictly maintained. ||57||

Agadee mool vayaa paasoni | uttam chaalee reeteechee raahanee |
karyee chapal, saawadha jeevanee | shikhshan devoni karaavee ||58||

From her early childhood, the female should be taught and made accustomed with excellent usages and manners of good behaviour. She should be given a good practice of excellent and dutiful conduct. She should be educated to acquire swiftness in enacting her work and in becoming cautious in life. ||58||

Kaahee mulee shakti-shikshan ghetee | Mulanpekhshaahee dheet asatee |
Naahee gundaancheehi chhatee | Haat ghaaleel tyaanche waree ||59||

Some women take training in physical excercises and develop their physical strength and might. They are bolder and more courageous than even boys. The ruffians and rascals can't dare to put their hands upon those females. ||59||

Tethe kaasayaasi padadaa ? paraavalambanaachi aapadaa |
Aatma saamarthyaanech sadaa | striyaa marditee asuraannaa ||60||

When it is so, why should the woman be put into the veil? Why should she depend upon others for her protection? With their self power & strength, females can destroy even the most evil demons. ||60||

Pari ikade karoni durlakhsha | Aapulaa raakhoni varapakhsha |
Lok striyaanche jeevan rukhsha | karoni thevitee swaarthaane ||61||

But this proper reasoning and thought have been neglected and males have firmly maintained superiority upon females. For their selfish motives, the males have made the life of females, uninteresting and miserable. ||61||

Kaahee lagna hota guntavitee gharee | Nase bolanyaachihi ujaagaree |
`chool aani mool' heech chaakaree | saangatee tija ||62||

Some individuals engage their brides completely inside the four walls of the house immidiately after their marriages.They don't allow her a freedom even to speak to any other person. They engage their newly wedded wives only in cooking and tending the children. ||62||

Kaahee gharaatachi kondoon thevitee | Bichaarilaa jagachi nase janmajaatee |
Jaraa disalee sooryaaprati | Maaruni karitee saral tilaa ||63||

There are some folks who very strictly confine females inside the house. The poor woman as always kept in the four walls does not even know what the outer world is. (The males are so stubborn and cruel that) if she comes out for a moment in sunshine, the males of the house beat her savagely. ||63||

Muline sadaa laponi rahaave | Mulaane gaavee raagrang paahaave |
Aise hey dushta riwaaj thewaave | na waatatee aamhaa ||64||

I earnestly feel that such wicked traditions as to compel the girls to live a hidden and confined life and to allow the boys to wander any where to observe the obscene and carnal, passionate sights and activities, should be immediately torn and thrown away from our life. ||64||

Are! tuzyaahooni tee uttam waagate |samaajee uttam bhaashan dete |
Tulaahi shahaanpana shikvoo jaanate | Mag tee maage kashaane? ||65||

(Addressing the Male, vandaniya maharaj says)," Man! she lives more virtueously and piously than you. She delivers excellent lecture in the society. She is capable of teaching you some wise lessons. How do you consider her as inferior to you? ||65||

Aise asataa daaboon thewaave | Hey aajachyaa yugee shobhaa na paave |
Jethe saman hakka asatee barave | var-vadhoonnaa ||66||

In present circumstances, to suppress and subdue females is not at all befitting to the present age. (and present modern generation) (vide The constitution of Bharat) Males and Females, brides and bridegrooms have been given and promised equal rights and equal status. ||66||

Eeswaraanechi nirmile hey sootra | donhee thewaave samaan pavitra |
Mulaanneech kaaya kele sarvatra | Raahaayaa pudhe jagaa maajee? ||67||

It is a divine formulation that both male and female should strictly & equally observe purity and chestity. Then what more special had the boys done so that they should always be allowed to go ahead in the world? ||67||

Wegale niyama pratishthe sambandhee | vidhawaa hotaa viwaahabandee |
Nirwaahaacheehi naahee sandhi | Hee bhed buddhi kashaasaathee ? ||68||

There are different rules and norms for honour and status of male and female. If a woman becomes a widow she is denied the right to get remarried. As a widow, she does not have or is not provided with help to earn her livelihood. Why should be there in the human society a sence of differenciation and discrimination in male & female? ||68||

Kaahee striyaa vidhawaa hotee | kesh kaadhooni vidrupa karitee |
Tyaane kaisee saadhe sannyaasvrutti | malaa nase thaave hey ||69||

When a certain woman becomes widow, people impel her forcefully to remove all her hair on her head and make her ugly. I don't understand how they can bring an ascetic tendency in the woman by deforming her in this way (says so vandaniya maharaj.) ||69||

Aapulaa zaakoni dubalepanaa | karaavee dusaryaachee vitambanaa |
Haa to aahe dushtapanaa | amaanush jaisaa ||70||

It is nothing but to hide one's own weakness and to put the other individual to the state of disgrace and shame; and to torment her. This act is not befitting to humanity and it is sheer cruelty and demonic act ||70||

Sannyaas ghene asel vidhawelaa | Tari vanee aashramee thewaavee tilaa |
sevaa shibiree abhyaas kelaa | paahije tine swaichchhey ||71||

If the widow wants to become ascetic, she should be sent to a forest to live in solitude in some aashrama. She may practice in the service camp at her own will. ||71||

Aapan khaave, lyaave saajire | Tilaa janmavari dukkhhaache bhaare |
Tyaahooni tiche maran bare | hote pati-chitemaajee ||72||

All other members eat delicious food and put on apparel and ornaments of their liking. But as a widow, a woman has to live whole life in a sorrowful and miserable condition. In stead of wasting the precious life in such a way it was better for her to offer herself for immolation on the pyre alongwith the corpse of her dead husband. ||72||

Tine vruttine raahave udaasa | karaavaa paramaarthaachaa abhyaasa |
Vidrup karuni aapanaasa | kaaya phaayadaa samajenaa ||73||

Male dominated society thinks that As a widow, she should live in a neutral and sad state and live uncontaminated from the world and worldly affairs. She should enact spiritual practices. I don't understand what benefit her relatives seek by making her ugly by deforming her? ||73||

Vidhawesi maanaave abhadra | Mulagee janmataa tee dalabhadra |
Vaya waadhataa samajaavee khshudra | Haa to dushtapanaa samaajaachaa ||74||

The human society considers the widow as inauspicious. When a girl gets born in the family, she is considered as unlucky and miserable. If the daughter becomes aged (due to a long delay for her marriage) the family considers her to be mean. This is a great wickedness of our society. ||74||

Jaisaa purush raahe brahmachaaree | taisee streehi asu shakate kumaaree |
Adhikaaraachee uneeva saaree | ghaalavilee paahije ||75||

A man can remain as a bachelar throughout his life. Similarly, woman can also live as a virgin in her whole life. Now, if someone thinks of non existing deficiency of rights in a bachelor and a virgin he should remove such understanding. ||75||

Streejaatees santatiniyamana-bedee | Pari purushaas naahee kaahee beradee |
Hey mhanane nawhe, avichaaree khodee | waatate maja ||76||

The female is confined by compulsion of birth control but strangely enough there are no rules for males in this regard. In my opinion, such insistance is nothing but indiscreetness. ||76||

Niyaman asaave te sarvaansi | abhyaas dyaavaa to doghaansi |
Vishaal karaave vichaar shakteesi | desh klesh samajavoni ||77||

Control and restrictions should be applicable to all with equality. Both male and female should be given the required practice & exercises. All should make their reasoning broad and extensive and should be given full understanding about the sad effects upon population and country and be made to be befitting accordingly. ||77||

Samaajee jo purushaasi aadar | Taisaachi mahilaansi asaava vyawahaara |
kimbahunaa adhik tyaanchaa vichaar | zaalaa paahije samaajee ||78||

In human society man is given a respectful treatment. Same respectful behaviour should be kept in regard to the females also. Moreover, I would like to stress upon giving more consideration by the human society to the female section. ||78||

Yethech samaajaache chukale | Ekaas uchaloni dusaryaas daabale |
Yaache katu phala bhogane aale | kiteetaree sthaanee ||79||

Here, in this regard, our society has committed a himalayan blunder. It has lifted one (male) up and supressed the other (female) deep below. Therefore the society and the country had to endure a great many bitter consequences in many fields. ||79||

Pari lakhsha naahee aaj tikade | Naaheet mulee baalleenna uttam dhade |
kuran waadhoo dyaave dhoraansaathee pudhe |Taise zaale samaajaache ||80||

Though the social condition has become so deteriorated, nobody has given a careful attention to it. Even today, the girls are not provided lessons of proper excellent knowledge and know how. Meadows are reserved and developed for feeding fodder to the animals. The same treatment has been given by the society to the women with a view of considering them as the things to seek selfish carnal, enjoyments. ||80||

Yaas paahije aata walavile | Thik thikaanee shikhsana dile |
Mulee - mahilaanche jeevan jaagavile | Tareech jagale gaava raajya ||81||

Now it is a time to give a right turn to all this tradition. Proper arrangements to provide education to girls and women should be made from place to place. Their life is to be made brilliant and they should be evoked for their upliftment. Then only the rule of the village will be alive. ||81||

Shahaanyaannee hey visaroo naye | Gaavee sarvaanchee karaavee soya |
Jene purushaanche, taisechi striyaanche hoya | utthaan aata ||82||

The wise should not now forget this. They should make all proper arrangements for all (male and female), so that women can progress as speedily as the men are progressing. ||82||

Tareech graam shobhoo laage | Purush-naaree donhee vibhaage |
Jene swargachi utarel kaarya yoge | vikaasaachyaa ||83||

Then only the village will have better appearance and adornment. Both sides - of the male and the female- can be speedily developed through the right and planned enactments and activities and surely, heavenly happiness and pleasures will descend in the village. ||83||

Mahilaanchyaa aantarik gunaanchaa vikaas | kareel aise shikhshan khaas |
Jaree dile jayeel tyaas | Tareech bhaavee jag paalate ||84||

Females should be provided such special education and training which can surely develop their internal latent virtues talent and adroitness. Then the world of future will surely be changed into a better one. ||84||

Mahilaanche uchchatama shikshana | shikhshanaat asaave jeevanaache sthana |
Jeewanaat asaave swaarasya poorna | shaanti, dayaadee bhawanaanche ||85||

Females should be proveded highest education. They should be given proper status and respectful place in life. That life should contain serenity, pity and such other excellent virtues and sweet essence of well wishes and good sentiments. ||85||

Samaaj vikaas jyaas awade | Tyaane shikawaave mulinnaa dhade |
Lihitaa waachataa yeyeel ewadhe | Taree shikhshana aawashyaka ||86||

Those who have a likining for the development of the human society should volunterily come forward to impart at least lessons of prilimanary knowledge to the girls so that they can be able to read and write. ||86||

Taiseech shikawaavee taap teep | gaane, bolane, waagane anuroop |
Ghar paahataachi kalaave aapoaap | kaisee yetheel mahila te ||87||

(Alongwith education) the females should be taught proper and excellent manner of behaviour such as keeping neatness and tidiness; to sing, to converse in good manner etc. Even at a glance upon the house, one should have an idea what type of female is maintaining the house. ||87||

Mulee baalees uttam thewane | Hey to maataa-pityaanche kartavya pramukh pane |
Tyaanech raashtraache phedeel paarane | ghar santaane aapuliyaa ||88||

It is the ultimate main duty of parents to provide excellent education to their daughters. The national debt as the citizen can be paid off by making the sons and daughters in the family develop a good culture. ||88||

Mee pahile, muley phaar shikatee | yantravid, kaaraageer hotee |
pari mulinsaathee yojana atee | mand aahe shikhshanaanchee ||89||

I have noticed that sons in the families are provided higher education. They become perfect and well skilled in the technical know-how of huge machines. They become excellent artisans and clever skilled workmen. But all plans and projects to provide education to females and girls are implemented extremely slowly. ||89||

Aise samaaje na whaave | Mulaanpareech mulinnaa shikawaave |
Tyaanche sthaan maan nehamee asaave | sahakaariteche ||90||

Such slackness should not continue in the society. Girls should be provided excellent education alike the boys. Her status in the society and respect given to her should always depend on the principle of co-operation. ||90||

Mulaas vividha uchchha dnyaan dyaave |Taisechi muleennaa shikawaave |
Helsaand karoo naye hey jaanaave | samaajaane ||91||

Girls should also be provided same excellent higher education as the boys are especially provided. All should very carefully and firmly hold in minds that it must not be seen that the girls are neglected by the society. ||91||

Pari swatantra asaave muleenche shikhshana |Stree-purushaanche udyog hi bhinna |
Jethe hote doghaanche milan | prasang kathin odhavitee ||92||

But female education arrangements should be made separate and independant. The professions of males and females should also be run separately and independantly. It is essential because when both male and female come together, very difficult odd and awkward situations emerge from their association. ||92||

Vichaare je je kaahee hote | Tyaat yojanaa baddhataa raahate |
Awichaaraane jaataa moha panthe | Dhokaa maagutaa paavato ||93||

When some enactments are done with due and full considerations and consciousness; they have sound foundation of well drawn planning. But lack of proper considerations and cautiousness in the same enactments creates passionate attraction which may produce adverse effect in the end. ||93||

Mhanoni samajoni shikhshan dyaave | Donhee rath chakraa sarakhe karaave |
Shakti-yukteennee bharaave | gaava saare aapule ||94||

Therefore, with such discretion and understanding, both boys & girls should be given proper education. The two wheels of a chariot must have the same equal measure of the humanity circumferance. Similarly both the male and female sides should be simultaniously and equally developed and be uplifted. The whole village should become brimful with pure pleasure through the union of the might and contrivances. ||94||

Parantu nehamee bhayabheet karaave |Pratyekaache sthaan bhinna thewaave |
Mag swabhaavaas walan konee dyaave | sansarga yetaa? ||95||

(But here lies the point of consideration.) If both boys and girls or male and female become always scared and minds of both are always full of fear due to the separate and independant places for their education; some adverse effects may crop up in future. If for some reason or other both (boy & girl or male & female) come in close contact and companionship, who is there to give a proper turn and direction to their natural instincts and temperaments! ||95||

Stree-purushaanchyaa vikrut kalpana | Bhramavitee parasparaanchyaa manaa |
Yaa saathee waadhawaava bandhu-bhagini panaa | yogya sambandhe ||96||

It is possible, the distorted and impaired concepts and wrong ideas about the relation between male and female in their minds may create illusion. Therefore, it is better to grow a relation of brother-sister between them through proper companionship. ||96||

Shikhshanaat asheech karaavee vyawasthaa |Na hoyeel parasparaanchi anaasthaa |
Yaa drushtine shikawoni samastaa | valan dyaave naitikateche ||97||

The same procedure should be followed while making arrangements for the education of male and female. We can avert estrangement that may grow in both of them. They will not neglect eachother. For this, you have to provide both of them moral education about ethical and virtueous character. ||97||

Doghaannaahi aapule breed kale | Tareech sagalaa anartha tale |
Erawhee pinjaryaat jaree vegale | tari gondhale vrutti tyaanchee ||98||

If both (male and female-or-boy and girl) are given such a moral education, they will understand their own different characters and prestige. then all the further impending calamaties will be averted. If they are kept away and separate from each other from the beginning and then if they may be put together in one cage, their instincts and inclinations about each other will surely create unwanted commotion. ||98||

Mhanoni sahashikhshanahi naahee waavooge |Jaree naitik bhaava raahatee jaage |
Shikhshanee jaagrutee thewane sarvaange |Kaam netyaa vadilaanche ||99||

Therefore co-education can also be given to both boys and girls (together). It will not prove bad provided that co-education can keep and grow the ethical value and morality awakened in boys and girls. To keep cautiousness in providing co-education to boys & girls is an important duty of the fathers and leaders in the society. ||99||

Shikhshanee saambhaaloni tanu, mana | karaave mulee baalees vidwaana |
Angee asaave shourya poorna | breed aapule rakhshaayaa ||100||

While taking education, the boys & girls should cautiously maintain sound minds & sound body. Thus girls (and females) should be made expert and highly skilful in education. They should hold enough courage and braveness to safeguard their respectful status and dignity. ||100||

Jemwhaa purush paavato patanaa | Tyaas stree prakrutee sahan hoyeenaa |
Temwhaa mahilaat asaavee sanghatanaa | tyaachee sudharanaa karaavayaa ||101||

When male comes to a morally downfall, he can't bear the presence of female by controlling himself. (He becomes passionate and impatient for woman.) So, to reform such erotic passionate male, there should be a good and strong organisation of females. ||101||

Jaisee mulaanchee sanghatit sena | Taisee striyaanchi asaavee sanghatana |
Aapulya sukh, dukkhaachyaa bhaavanaa |prakat waavyaa sabha-sammelanee ||102||

Boys have their own organisations. Similarly the girls and females should build up their strong independant organisation. The girls & women should boldly place their sentiments of sorrows and happiness in the assemblies and gatherings of their own organisation. ||102||

Purushaanche jaise sphoortisthaan | Taisechi mahilaanche asaave unnatibhuwana |
Tyaat sabhaa, praarthana, kathaa keertana | upakrama poorna mahilaanche ||103||

The boys organisation is the place of encouragement and inspiration for them. Similarly, the organisation for the females should be the home of upliftment and prosperity for them. Programmes like meetings, prayers, storytelling, keertana etc should be regularly presented for the females and by themselves at their organisations. ||103||

Doora saaronee jaatiya aadibhaava | Jamawoni mahila samudaaya sarva |
Tilgul, haladi-kunku, shaaradotsava | sahabhojanaadi karaave ||104||

In their organisation there should be no scope or place for castism and communalism. All females should freely come together and arrange programmes like distributing Til-Gul (sesam seeds and jaggery on Makar sankranti), offering Haladi-kunkum to each other (as a token of married woman, they offer powder of turmeric and red powder,) ceremony of sharada pooja etc. On these occasions, a common co-dining should also be arranged in that organisation. ||104||

utsava saadhwee pativrataanche | jayanti-punyatithee parva tayaanche |
waachanaalayaadik mahila vibhaagache | jethe tethe aavashyaka ||105||

The birth anniversaries and death anniversaries of great sacred, pious, virtueous, chaste and dutiful wives should be ceremoniously celebrated. Similarly, at their organisation there should be a female library. Thus, so many activities of female welfare should be arranged from place to place by the organisation. ||105||

Striyaanche swatantra meley samudaaya | Tyaanchyaa unnatichaa kala-gourava |
Pratikaaraacheehi tyaanna jaaneeva | avashya asaavee ||106||

Their arts and attributes for prosperity should be honoured and admired. So, functions like assemblages of females, their aggregates should be arranged. A strong sense to stand boldly against injustice should also be created in them. ||106||

Maaze mhanane shrotayaate | je je sukh asel purushaate |
Mahilaanseehi asaave abhinnapane te |Swaatantrya, sukh saadhana. ||107||

I have to tell you all listeners. Whatever pleasures and means of happiness and comforts are available to males, should also be provided and made available to females without any descrimination and differenciation. They should also have equal liberty like males. ||107||

Sarva soyee purushaankaritaa | striyaansaathee sarva vyathaa |
Hey kon bolate shaastra aataa ? dyaave haata zugaaroni ||108||

If any science differenciates stating that all comforts and conviniencies should be given to males and all sorrows and troubles should be suffered by females, it should be thrown far away. ||108||

Purush unnatees chadhalaa | pari kaaheech na kale mahilelaa |
Taree to gaavachi ekkallee zaalaa | nashibee aalaa rhaas, traas. ||109||

If only man has reached highest peak of prosperity and if the woman can enact nothing, then be sure, that village has become completely obstinate and adherent and one sided. It will bring deterioration to the village and it will have to suffer lot of troubles. ||109||

Mhanoni rathaachi donhee chaake | majboot karaavee katoni saarakhe |
Tareech sansaargaadee sukhe | sukhaavel graam jeevanaachi ||110||

Therefore both the wheels of chariot should be made even in size by chipping them and both wheels should be made strong and sturdy. Then only this chariot of houselife (mundane) will run smoothly and happily. ||110||

Aadarsha aise maataa pitaa | janma deteel aadarsha sutaa |
Te vaikuntha banaviteel Bhaarata | Tukadya mhane ||111||

Vandaniya Tukadoji Maharaj says; if the parents become so virtueously ideal, they will produce virtueous and ideal offsprings. Those ideal children (when will grow up) will make our beloved motherland Bharat as holy and glorious as vaikuntha. (kingdom of Lord Vishnu). ||111||

Iti Shree Graamgeeta grantha | Guru-shaastra-swaanubhava sammat |
Graamoddhaar kathilaa mahilonnateet |visaavaa adhyaaya sampoorna. ||112||

Thus, this Graamgeeta scripture is well consented by the Guru, sciences and self-experiences. This twentieth chapter in which `upliftment of villages through prosperity and development of females' is elaborately narrated is hereby concluded. ||112||

|| Sadgurunaath Maharaaj kee jay ||
(End of Drushti parivartana panchak.)

Volitions

1) `As soon as the being comes into existence in mother's womb, it may seek the impressions of its mother. Hence only mother can become the more superior Master (Guru) than child's teacher. So in the period of her pregnancy, as a mother, I shall listen, meditate, contemplate and pray for the most extensive and sublime object and aim.

2) We shall give full scope to females to participate in the public work and we shall create the female's committes and organisations in each and every village.

3) From their early childhood, we shall arrange to provide girls with education & training of physical exercises and help them to grow their self-strength. We shall send girls to places where such education is imparted.

4) We shall extend our full co-operation to the institutions where ideal life education is given to girls and females.

5) Where the girl or widow female wishes to live as unmarried spinster and to live with celibacy, we shall run an ashram for unmarried females at some independent place. we shall send our daughters in some ideal Gurukul for twelve years to seek ideal education.