Woman - The meaning is ‘Sakthi’ – the power. Unless we understand the true strength of a
woman, we cannot fathom to what extent she can go, how far she can climb, how
deep she can dive and how far she can swim.
The supreme power of a woman has to be first realized and recognized
within.
We are talking about a world where we want to identify woman
to break the glass ceiling. Like what we saw in the recent US elections…but the
power is that of the 18 million cracks that fell on the glass and it is for us
to go beyond as Hillary Clinton mentioned. The day is not far. What are we running behind
when we have everything within us to control things around us? Unless we realize this potential, it is
useless to find acceptance by the society at large.
The role of woman begins from the family, the network of
friends and neighbors, the society we live in, the communities we participate
and the communal aspects that we endear to ourselves and contribute. Educating our families, creating harmony in neighborhood,
participating in movements of all kinds, irrespective of gender specific
issues, but for the common good of the citizens of this country, this all takes
the strength of the women. Today, we
can not only run the governments and space ships equally, we can create world
peace or break the peace both at the equal strengths. It all depends on how we divert the
extremely powerful potential that is hidden within us as women.
We should take up on our roots, to go back to our ancient
wisdom of cooking that brought families and their health and wellness together
to leap ahead. We should go back to our ancient science and heritage that
brought vast cultural extravaganza to the world of arts and creative sciences
to move forward. We are today emerging
technological experts and social animals.
In this run to the mill grinding process, we should not forget that we
women ultimately have the power to create the wellness of our families and
societies at large. Today, we don’t
need to change the world at large. We
need to bring up kids who are sensible, old who are taken care, rich who are
humble and poor who are not vulnerable.
This will in turn make the world around us living worthy. Or else, day in and day out, our lives will
be a struggle for survival. It is time
to pause and bring in a change. Only we
women can do that in this contemporary society. Jai Nari Shakthi!
