Powerful! How the Hindu goddess Saraswati can help balance and evolve gender roles for males in coupling with women.
In today’s global warming climate of gender equality, traditional roles are on the decline. Testosterone is at an all-time low, births are at an all-time low as well. Women are outworking men in terms of employment. Teenagers are changing their genders at a whim and society is not only defending but supporting this. Historically the devil is in the details. Whenever mass manipulation is taking place propaganda always has at least one percent of truth to it. Could traditional gender roles use some tweaking in western societies? Sure, but a complete overhaul against our biology and nature is a recipe for disaster. However, what if there were a model that would improve the gender role of women while maintaining its feminine essence? Hindu goddess Saraswati is an example of the depth of intelligence in women that doesn’t ask for them to become men. There’s hope for the gender roles for males and females after all.
“Knowledge helps man find possibilities where once he saw problems.”
Saraswati
Archetypes are so relatable because they resonate with something deep inside us. Comic-con, sporting events, and other ways we live through others are just examples. While these may be forms of idol worship on some level, we bond with characters we feel are most relatable. We dress up as them or develop an entirely new alter ego altogether because, in reality, a part of them is inside of us. How well we can reach into the depths of our soul and psyche depends on us…Hinduism gods and goddesses are no different.
In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied – ‘This should not happen to me.’ It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.
Saraswati
The deities we resonate with or influence us the most can represent areas we need to improve on as well. Saraswati as the goddess who brings order into chaos is no different. This is interesting as even in the media women were portrayed as helpless and chaotic. Now today, men are more emotional and chaotic. The wisdom of Saraswati provides a much-needed knowledge of stability especially in gender roles for males.
As mentioned earlier, both genders dress up as the character they resonate with the most. However relatable the storylines are the character don’t offer much wisdom. Often it helps when the person giving the wisdom looks similar to us..Stoicism is a popular ideology adopted by men that were given by men. There are no women stoics, which may make it difficult for women to listen.
“All I offer must be used to elevate the spirit, not indulge the senses.”
Saraswati
Are women just objects and good for sex? Should they mimic men as a symbol of equality? Playing sports, and being ambitious in regard to a career isn’t tapping into the potential of women. Just like representation matters in the material earthly realm, it matters in the spiritual. Women are worried about female coaches in the NBA and NFL. Or running successful corporations. At the end of the day, these things are meaningless. In fact, the creator Brahma in Hindu mythology was cursed by Saraswati for this very reason..
Brahma thus became the creator of the world with Saraswati as his wisdom.
Saraswati was the first being to come into Brahma’s world. Brahma began to look upon her with eyes of desire. She turned away saying, “All I offer must be used to elevate the spirit, not indulge the senses.”
Brahma could not control his amorous thoughts and his infatuation for the lovely goddess grew. He continued to stare at Saraswati. He gave himself four heads facing every direction so that he could always be able to feast his eyes on Saraswati’s beauty.
Saraswati moved away from Brahma, first taking the form of a cow. Brahma then followed her as a bull. Saraswati then changed into a mare; Brahma gave chase as a horse. Every time Saraswati turned into a bird or a beast he followed her as the corresponding male equivalent. No matter how hard Brahma tried he could not catch Saraswati in any of her forms.
The goddess with multiple forms came to be known as Shatarupa. She personified material reality, alluring yet fleeting.
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So as beautiful as Saraswati was she wasn’t stuck on the vanity of her appearance. This lesson alone could shift a generation of women who feel that their beauty is their only asset. And tweak what the gender roles for males are in relation to women. Part of the deception is getting women to objectify themselves and defend it. Onlyfans, tik tok, normalizing prostitution as sex work are just some of the avenues popular opinion is justifying vanity. Again there are spiritual female gurus today and Saraswati as well. So why the lack of representation and even more important is why don’t women care or seem to notice this void?
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Saraswati
Saraswati represents knowledge, culture, art,, and language which in American culture is uplifting. In fact, our music objectifies and degrades women and women support this. In fact, music is one of the main pushers of female world ambitions. Nothing about spirituality and women in today’s culture and music. Rather than hold women accountable for creating order into chaos, we’ve embraced women creating chaos..Today is in India is Saraswati day, it is a festival and holiday to worship the goddess to gain enlightenment. No celebrities or athletes have holidays in America, yet, so there is still hope. Athletes are idol worshiped for their material fame and financial success, yet they offer no wisdom. If fact their relevancy is dependent upon attachment to the material world.
In conclusion, Saraswati is the perfect ideal for women today. Furthermore, she can be a guideline and hope for gender roles for males in what they want in a spouse. She also gives men hope that women are capable of being more than sex objects. Untapped knowledge and wisdom benefit both genders and society at large. Rather than women trying to mimic men for equality, they should focus on more god-fearing women. Otherwise, we will have burnout, unmarried, and childless women for the next several generations. Saraswati is proof that women shouldn’t be chained to the kitchen, nor the corporate ladder either.