Hindu Strictures on Non-Body-Contact Conduct And What Coronavirus and SARS Have Proved to US
A 63-year-old Hindu woman attended a funeral. She went home, had her meal and retired. When her nephew asked her why she did not observe the archara (=Hindu conduct) that required her to shower after going to a funeral, the Hindu woman scoffingly said, "I do not believe in such superstition." Being clean is now a superstition to people like her.
It has become commonplace to see many Hindus these days performing greetings by cheek-kissing, shaking hands, hugging and embracing. When they are told that Hindus shastras, smritis and ithihaas, have strictly forbidden body contacts between people, they pooh-pooh the tradition as rankly antiquated, as a crass shibboleth carried over from the Brahmanical era. Of course, they love citing the Western culture as the norm for socialisation, communal living and for everything that is not in consonant with Hinduism.
In 2019, a group of Hindu men and women went on a two-week pilgrimage to some holy places and ashrams in India. One Tuesday morning, when the retinue gained an ashram at the hilltop, everyone went into the shrine save a woman and her little son. A woman in her 40s, who had been working in the medical industry for two decades, seeing the two, asked the mother why they did not go with the rest. The mother told her that she had her period, hence, she did not want to enter the holy shrine. Gibing at the observance, the nurse told the mother, "God is in our hearts; he cares not about such sexist observances that have been passed down to us by illiterate generations. 'Period' is just a monthly episode that a woman experiences. It is a natural bodily discharge that does not make anyone unclean. Stop your superstition, and get into the shrine."
One wonders what her bewilderment would be if she knows that even the Christian faith has a view on menstruating women that is in agreement with Hindu shastras: "....she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean...." (KJV Bible, Leviticus 15:19)
In the following videos, we get to hear the views on this matter of conduct from a young European, a Smartha brahamana and a Vaishnava brahmin. Let's compare their opinions with our card-carrying pseudo-rational and counterfeit scientific-minded Hindus, who know next to nothing about their own religions and spiritual practices:
It has become commonplace to see many Hindus these days performing greetings by cheek-kissing, shaking hands, hugging and embracing. When they are told that Hindus shastras, smritis and ithihaas, have strictly forbidden body contacts between people, they pooh-pooh the tradition as rankly antiquated, as a crass shibboleth carried over from the Brahmanical era. Of course, they love citing the Western culture as the norm for socialisation, communal living and for everything that is not in consonant with Hinduism.
In 2019, a group of Hindu men and women went on a two-week pilgrimage to some holy places and ashrams in India. One Tuesday morning, when the retinue gained an ashram at the hilltop, everyone went into the shrine save a woman and her little son. A woman in her 40s, who had been working in the medical industry for two decades, seeing the two, asked the mother why they did not go with the rest. The mother told her that she had her period, hence, she did not want to enter the holy shrine. Gibing at the observance, the nurse told the mother, "God is in our hearts; he cares not about such sexist observances that have been passed down to us by illiterate generations. 'Period' is just a monthly episode that a woman experiences. It is a natural bodily discharge that does not make anyone unclean. Stop your superstition, and get into the shrine."
One wonders what her bewilderment would be if she knows that even the Christian faith has a view on menstruating women that is in agreement with Hindu shastras: "....she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean...." (KJV Bible, Leviticus 15:19)
In the following videos, we get to hear the views on this matter of conduct from a young European, a Smartha brahamana and a Vaishnava brahmin. Let's compare their opinions with our card-carrying pseudo-rational and counterfeit scientific-minded Hindus, who know next to nothing about their own religions and spiritual practices:
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