Re: Living together a part of right to life, not an offence: SC
If moral standards of Hindu mythological gods become the benchmark then I am afraid anything including rape could be justified.Many Baba's in India use the aruguement of krishna and say we are doing what Krishna use to do when they force Girls to have sex with them.
Tulsi is worshipped by almost all the hindu's but very few know the story behind it.Actually Tulsi is raped woman by Lord Vishnu.She was the wife of Demon jalandhar and she got boon from Shiv that as long as she remain faithful to her husband nobody could defeat jalandhar .Jalandhar became very powerful and started defeating all the gods.There was noway to defeat him as long as his wife is faithful and chaste.So the gods decide to hatch a conspiracy against her.One night Lord Vishnu disguised himself as Jalandhar and spent a night with her.When she knows about it she commit suicide.Lord vishnu give her a boon that she is also now considered as wife of Vishnu so she will be worshipped by world in form of a plant.After that it was easy for gods to beat jalandhar and Shiv ji just killed him.
Coming to point of live in relationship.Only those couple's which are cut off from mainstream India are doing it and these type of relationships are more dangerous for women because Men can go back to their mainstream society and start a married life with another girl but there are hardly any taker for a girl who was in a live in relationship unless her family gives a very huge dowry or lie to groom
Dear Kanwardeepji,
I regret to get your representation. Kindly go through the interpretation made by the Holy books. Your arguments on the subject are totally unapproved as I am sure that not in Hindu mythology NO RELIGION JUSTIFY RAPE. Kindly don’t mix Lord Krishna with Babas’ arguments. Either the people has not studied the literature of Lord Krishana or there are some misconceptions in the understanding and interpretation. Lord Krishana who is complete in himself, how you interpreted such a tale, I don’t understand.
I interpret the story behind
worshipping of Tulsi.
Tulsi or Holy Basil is worshipped in Hinduism and this plant is associated with Lord Vihnu and Lord Krishna. The significance of Tulsi plant, How this plant got sacred status. The story is as under:
Satyabhama one of the queens of Lord Krishna was proud of her beauty and always though that Lord Krishna beloved her most. Sage Narada who came to know about this wrong notion of Satyabhama decided to trick her. He arrived at her residence and was traditionally welcomed by Satyabhama.
Pleased with her hospitality, Sage Narada asked Satyabhama to ask a boon. She wanted the blessing from Sage Narada that Lord Krishna will be her husband in all her births.
Sage Narada then said that it is a well known fact that one who donates the choicest article in this birth will get it back in the next birth. So she can now donate Lord Krishna to him to get it back in the next birth. Without much thought Satyabahama agreed to donate Lord krishana to Sage Narada. Soon Sage Narada approached Lord Krishna and asked him to accompany him as he was donated to him by Satyabahama.
The news of Satyabahama donating Lord Krishana to Sage Narada spread like wildfire and the other queens of Lord krishana arrived on the scene. They surrounded Lord Krishna and said that they had equal right over him and Satyabhama cannot donate him.
The queens pleaded to Sage Narada that they were ready to give anything in exchange of Lord Krishna. Sage Narada agreed to take equal amount of gold, precious stones and gold to the weight of Lord Krishna instead of the Lord Himself. The queens agreed. They brought all their valuables and placed it on a weighing scale and Lord Krishna sat on the other side of the scale, but scale did not move a fraction.
Satyabhama then realized her folly and now desperately wanted to get back Lord Krishna. She said to the other queens that Lord Krishna loves me the most as I am the most beautiful and wealthy and the scale will only move when I donate my oranaments. So She went to weighing scale and placed all her ornaments. But the scale did not move a fraction. All her pride went to dust.
On this Satyabhama got disappointed and went to Queen Renuka who was worshipping the Tulsi Plant. Upon hear the story, Queen Renuka plucked a Tusi leaf and gave to Satyabhama and asked to remove all the ornaments and place the Tulsi leaf on the weighing scale.
Sage Narad happily took the Tulsi leaf and left the scene. A relieved Satyabahama and other queens went to Queen Renuka and joined in the worship of Tulsi.
Concluding part: Queen Renuka told them that Lord Krishna cannot be moved by wealth or beauty but only by pure devotion. And Tulsi plant is one of his greates devotees. From that day People began to worship Tulsi and it attained sacred status.
Why Tulsi is considered wife of Lord Vishnu.
Tulsi is venerated as a goddess in Hinduism and sometimes considered a wife of God Vishnu. She is being called with a name of Vishnupriya, the beloved of Lord Vishnu. If you like to know the legend behind Tulsi Vivah and its rites then kindly go through the Scripture Pdma Purana.
According to Hindu mythology the Tulsi plant was a woman named Vrinda, You may spell like Brinda, synonym of Tulsi. She was married to demon-kind Jalandhar. Due to her piety and devotion to Vishnu, her husband became invincible. Even God Shiva, the destroyer in the Hindu Trinity could not defeat jalandhar. So Shiva requested Vishnu- the preserver of Trinity to find a solution. Vishnu disguised himself as Jalandhar and vilated Vrinda. Her chastity destroyed, Jalandhar was killed by Shiva. Vrinda cursed Vishnu to become black in clolur and he would be separated from his wife. Thus he was transformed in to the black Shaligram Stone and in his Rama Avatar, his wife Sita was kidnapped by a demon kind and thus separated from him. Vrinda then burnt herself on her husband’s funeral pyre or immolated herself due to the shame. The gods or Vishnu transferred her soul to a plant, henceforth which was called as Tulsi. As per a blessing by Vishnu to marry Vrinda in her next birth, Vishnu in form of Shaligram married Tulsi on Prabhodhin Ekadashi. So, to commemonrate this event the ceremony of Tusi Vivah is being performed.
I fully agree with you that Live in relationship are cutting off society with mainstream. I agree to you that the man can go back to the mainstream society and can start a married life with another girl but it is quite difficult for a girl to adjust after marriage with another person. In most of the cases the truth will never be disclosed while marrying this girl by the family members. Dowry is the secondary point but the foremost point is that the people will not accept that girl if she had been having the live in relationship in villages, small towns but if we consider about the life of celebrities in that case it is common in their life.
Rajneesh Madhok