Shunning Shakti, The Lioness, The Princess

In the Eastern Hemisphere  the woman has been traditionally honoured  as the female aspect of the Source.The woman is revered as the Supreme energy, known as Shakti.  Shakti is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning, the primordial, potent life force that sustains the whole of the universe , and creation. Shakti translates to the concept of the Divine Feminine, the sacred female divinity. When the Divine  Feminine  is utilized in it’s highest form  it manifests itself as the Goddess power in every woman. Shakti represents itself through the female psyche as the symbol of fertility, creativity, and prosperity.

In reverence to the Female Divinity, the Shakti power, the Devi-Mahatmya explains, ‘ By you this universe is borne, By you this world is created, Oh Devi, by you it is protected.’

‘Woman is the creator of the universe the universe is her form; woman is the foundation of the world, she is the true form of the body. In woman is the form of all things, of all that lives and moves in the world. There is no jewel rarer than woman, no condition superior to that of a woman.’ - Shaktisangama Tantra –

In stark contrast to this pure, intrinsic, innate appreciation of the Source through the Sacred Feminine. India has also, told a very different story about how it has honored women in it’s culture.

Excerpt from the Sikhs.org website:

‘At the time of the Gurus women were considered very low in society. Both Hindus and Muslims regarded women as inferior and a man’s property. Women were treated as mere property whose only value was as a servant or for entertainment. They were considered seducers and distractions from man’s spiritual path. Men were allowed polygamy but widows were not allowed to remarry but encouraged to burn themselves on their husbands funeral pyre (sati). Child marriage and female infanticide were prevalent and purdah (veils) were popular for women. Women were also not allowed to inherit any property. Many Hindu women were captured and sold as slaves in foreign Islamic countries.

In such a climate Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism shocked the entire society by preaching that women were worthy of praise and equal to men. Five hundred years later, the rest of mankind is only now waking up to this fundamental truth. The Gurus actively encouraged the participation of women as equals in worship, in society, and on the battlefield. They encouraged freedom of speech and women were allowed to participate in any and all religious activities including reading of the Guru Granth Sahib.’

Of a woman are we conceived,

Of a woman are we born,

To a woman are we betrothed and married,

It is a woman who keeps the race going,

Another companion is sought when the life-partner dies,

Through a woman are established social ties.

Why should we consider woman cursed and condemned,

When from woman are born leaders and rulers.

From woman alone is born a woman,

Without woman there can be no human birth.

Without woman, O Nanak, only the True One exists.

Be it man or be it woman,

Only those who sing His glory

Are blessed and radiant with His Beauty,

In His Presence and with His grace

They appear with a radiant face. - Raag Aasaa 471:5383-4

Siri Guru Granth Sahib

Could it be that Sikhs of today’s culture have forgotten Guru Nanak’s message about equal status among men, and women ? Instead they have chosen, and are choosing to kill off the female species, female foeticide. Are they doing this in an attempt to avoid dowry ? The Guru’s abolished dowry. However, it is a tradition that is still going on. For many people marriage is still a profit  making  scam fuelled by greed, monetary, and material gain.

‘They are  buying and selling bodies. A barter system, a transaction. Real marriage is heart to heart. When the student, and God unite.’ Baba Ji

‘ Why are so many Sikhs of Northern India participating in female foeticide and why can’t Sikhs seem to stop it? Down through humanity female infanticide is usually linked with hopeless poverty. But Sikhs in India- and not low income, uneducated Sikhs either – are aborting their futures, depriving their so precious and valued sons of wives. This is especially sad and horrifying because the Sikh religion promotes womens equal rights. Sikh dogma and doctrine specifically forbids female infanticide; also the Hindu practice of sati and the Islamic practice of veiling women. Sikhs have been trying to keep their culture against amazing odds since the very conception of their religion, 500+ years ago. Now in one generation, due to one bad sad sin, there are no longer enough Sikh women being born.

Son preference affects women in many countries, particularly in Asia. Its consequences can be anything from foetal or female infanticide to neglect of the girl child over her brother in terms of such essential needs as nutrition, basic health care and education. In China and India, some women choose to terminate their pregnancies when expecting daughters but carry their pregnancies to term when expecting sons’. - Sherry Karabin  ‘Infanticide, Abortion Responsible for 60 Million Girls Missing in Asia’ -

Research conducted by the United Nations explains, ‘According to reports from India, genetic testing for sex selection has become a booming business, especially in the country’s northern regions. Indian gender-detection clinics drew protests from women’s groups after the appearance of advertisements suggesting that it was better to spend $38 now to terminate a female foetus than $3,800 later on her dowry.

A study of amniocentesis procedures conducted in a large Bombay hospital found that 95.5 per cent of foetuses identified as female were aborted, compared with a far smaller percentage of male foetuses’.

The problem of son preference is present in many other countries as well. Asked how many children he had fathered, the former United States boxing champion Muhammad Ali told an interviewer: ‘One boy and seven mistakes.’

If we look at female foeticide,  female infanticide from an energetic perspective.  Soul energy cannot be destroyed. The spark of tiny soul energy will have to wait to take birth, and then evolve in human birth until it has another opportunity on the physical plane. Although, the research indicates female foeticide is predominantly fuelled by having to give dowry at the time of marriage. Perhaps this act is more about having power and control, and is  fuelled by ego, desire, pride, domination and manipulation. Why is that Sikhs have not adhered to Guru Nanak’s original message of equality, and honouring the woman. All the Sikh Guru’s throughout history promoted spiritual equality, evolution  and enterprise.

 The term Sikh is a generic term it encompasses a broad spectrum of people under the label, culturally, religiously, and  socially. There, seems to be a massive ever increasing polarity between those that choose to wear this label.

On the one hand there are the orthodox Sikhs, that have embraced women partaking in ceremony, congregation and the recitation of scripture. Despite, this there is also a common held view that a women’s status in society is further enhanced by bearing sons. Many people feel that a women’s self – value, and self esteem is interdependent on her ability to breed son’s and increase the tribal collective.  Where is the balance ? Where is the unification of thought, consistency and action amongst the followers of Guru Nanak ? 

To be a Sikh, is to be a seeker of Truth, to live in harmony with humanity, nature, and all of creation. To be a Sikh is to be in alignment with Source energy. However, there are many people who feel that it is acceptable to commit these horrific acts in the pursuit to breed sons.

The Sikh Gurus led the precedence to abolish deity worship, fasting, praying for the fulfillment of one’s desires. Many Sikhs in an attempt to bear sons, fast and pray to the deities, they pray to the moon, sun and the planets. They wear talismans, gemstones, donate gold and wealth. They seek advice from seers and faquirs.  They mutter mantras and recite verses from the Guru Granth Sahib, like spells. They buy and sell the Guru Granth Sahib in ceremonial ritual readings, speed reading it in 48 hours, offer supplication, and then request the endless list of wishes to be fulfilled. Is this not hypocritical ? Killing off the female species, praying for son’s and then bowing in front of the embodiment of the word of the Guru. The act of bowing to the Siri Guru Granth Sahib means, to subjugate to the word, the vibration, the message personified in the book. Is it acceptable to commit heinous acts in the pursuit of self gain?

In the narrative between the butcher and the goat.  Life after life the butcher and the goat would alternate places, and take birth accordingly. Until in one existence the butcher starting cutting the goat’s leg off for a customer. The goat spoke, ‘Oh butcher, what is  this new bad action you are starting? Life after life we keep swapping roles to cancel our actions. If you chop my leg now and make me suffer, in the next life I will do the same to you, and you too shall suffer.’

To attempt to destroy life, creation, a spark of light, the Supreme Source energy,  bears a heavy burden on the souls that choose to do such acts. For every choice and act there is a karmic obligation waiting to be fulfilled. The transaction has be processed and completed  accordingly to the governing Divine Laws. Butchery, barbaric behaviour, brutality. Oh, how foolish, arrogant and ignorant is the one who deems that they have forthwith the power to render life futile. The light of the Source can never be extinguished. All life is born from the potent energy. The circular dance of life flows continuously, endlessly, birth, death, birth, death on and on. Life after life.

The above has been shared in the spirit of awareness, to bring an aspect of our selves into vibrational, energetic alignment from the misguided, outdated, outmoded misconceptions. It is not intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable, or offended, it is not a judgement. It demonstrates how our unconscious programming, self – limiting memories and data. Have the capacity to create an external living hell which stem from the internal thoughts and the thoughts stem from the conditioned programming, be it karmic, hereditary, cultural, and social. Thus, the thoughts and programming feed off each other, this manifests into action. The action then begins to create an external reality.

I pay homage to the Divine feet of the Perfect Guru who has the capacity to liberate, cut the ties, the bonds, for those that seek and commit to the Source. Eventually the Perfect Teacher liberates the initiate from the cycle of birth and death. The play of transmigration. The play of suffering, duality, illusion. The soul of the initiate is like a pied songbird pining for the taste of endless, divine nectar. The blessed soul’s thirst is quenched, and the veil of illusion is lifted. The heart blossoms forthwith.  Such souls light the way for others. For all those who follow in their footsteps. Such souls seek only the shelter, and sanctuary of the Master’s presence.

Gobinday, Mukhunday, Udharay, Aparay, Hariung, Kariung, Nirnaamay, Akaame – Dasam Granth

One who sustains, One who liberates us, One who uplifts us, Who is infinite, Who does everything,  By whose Grace everything is done, Nameless, desireless, Is by itself .

Blissfull Blessings

In Gratitude

Simran