The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood -- that marvelous, unselfish, all-suffering, ever-forgiving mother.
The wife walks behind -- the shadow. She must imitate the life of the mother; that is her duty.
But the mother is the ideal of love; … …
Instead of "Our Father in Heaven", we say "Mother" all the time; that idea and that word are ever associated in the Hindu mind with Infinite Love, the mother's love being the nearest approach to God's love in this mortal world of ours.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Women of India’, Talk at Shakespeare Club House,
Pasadena, California
The wife walks behind -- the shadow. She must imitate the life of the mother; that is her duty.
But the mother is the ideal of love; … …
Instead of "Our Father in Heaven", we say "Mother" all the time; that idea and that word are ever associated in the Hindu mind with Infinite Love, the mother's love being the nearest approach to God's love in this mortal world of ours.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Women of India’, Talk at Shakespeare Club House,
Pasadena, California
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