… the one thing that fulfills womanhood, that is womanliness in woman, is motherhood. Wait till she becomes a mother; then she will have the same right. That, according to the Hindu mind, is the great mission of woman -- to become a mother.
But oh, how different! Oh, how different!
My father and mother fasted and prayed, for years and years, so that I would be born. They pray for every child before it is born. Says our great law-giver, Manu, giving the definition of an Aryan, "He is the Aryan, who is born through prayer".
Every child not born through prayer is illegitimate, according to the great law-giver. The child must be prayed for.
Those children that come with curses, that slip into the world, just in a moment of inadvertence, because that could not be prevented -- what can we expect of such progeny?
Mothers of America, think of that!
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Women of India’,
Talk at Shakespeare Club House,
Pasadena, California
But oh, how different! Oh, how different!
My father and mother fasted and prayed, for years and years, so that I would be born. They pray for every child before it is born. Says our great law-giver, Manu, giving the definition of an Aryan, "He is the Aryan, who is born through prayer".
Every child not born through prayer is illegitimate, according to the great law-giver. The child must be prayed for.
Those children that come with curses, that slip into the world, just in a moment of inadvertence, because that could not be prevented -- what can we expect of such progeny?
Mothers of America, think of that!
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Women of India’,
Talk at Shakespeare Club House,
Pasadena, California
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