Manusmriti Rules Regarding Menstruation Are NO LONGER Applicable

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024
  • This video discusses how:
    1. The laws of the Manusmriti which describe Menstruation as a sutak, or a period of impurity, are no longer applicable in modern times.
    2. Manusmriti being a Smriti contains many temporary laws which are valid ONLY for certain times and under certain conditions. When these times & conditions change these laws become obsolete and are to be given up. Only then can Hindu society progress. Otherwise it will regress.
    3. We must remember that EVERY custom practiced in the past cannot be blindly imported into the present. Blindly enforcing the custom of “not visiting temples during periods / not doing puja during menstruation” harms Hinduism tremendously as it damages Hindu women's self-esteem and pushes several of them towards Atheism.
    #Manusmriti
    #Menstruation
    #Sabarimala
    #Periods
    #Hinduism
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 87

  • @Spiritualbee
    @Spiritualbee  4 роки тому +4

    SUPPORT THIS WORK via a Donation to the Spiritual Bee Foundation: www.spiritualbee.com/donate-to-the-spiritual-bee-foundation/

  • @theself5738
    @theself5738 3 роки тому +7

    In my experience, menstruation is a very auspicious time for spiritual practice - fasting, meditation, prayer, and rest. During my cycle, my hunger naturally shuts off for the first couple of days so I generally fast for 2 days. I also feel tired and need to rest and stay home. And most importantly, my mind is naturally turned more inward, so I prefer to meditate rather than go out.

  • @paharimini4384
    @paharimini4384 4 роки тому +8

    Beautiful.! From our childhood I have seen my father opposing this menstrual custom. He was humiliated by the people, I was assessed too. But later I understood his advance mindset. Love u deta.. ( from Assam).

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  4 роки тому +5

      Wow! God bless your father! Wish all had such broad minded and rational fathers!

  • @Barinder1938
    @Barinder1938 3 роки тому +9

    Who are men to make rules for women?

  • @hingunirav
    @hingunirav 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks Pulkit , i am also trying to eradicate this customs by my blog ,last month i have published article on Women and Menstruation and why the women were not allowed in temples ,i have written big article on this topic along with my collegaue Pratima ji .Hope we all grow and help each other.

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  4 роки тому

      do share your article link here and also email me the link/copy at contact@spiritualbee.com. Would love to read it - pulkit

    • @hingunirav
      @hingunirav 4 роки тому

      @@Spiritualbee here is the link
      www.occultspeak.com/why-womens-arent-allow-in-menstruation/

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому

      You only think about your own growth not our. We are independent and grow individually. Never ever try to touch our customs with your dirty hands. Our customs are our rights and we will never leave it. You want to replace our customs with your non- sense ideas? That's never going to happen. We are born free and live free. Not under your help. Take your bullshit ideas and get lost. Every time we have a choice between your stupid mission and our customs we will always select our customs. We will compromise our independence with anything. Neither we need your help nor we will help. You want to help people then eradicate something else. Don't even try to look at our customs. No means no.

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому

      @@Spiritualbee I will let you kill our tradition and use us for public service.

    • @tanushreesaha4656
      @tanushreesaha4656 4 роки тому

      @@hingunirav what is being told in this video, is it right?👇👇
      ua-cam.com/video/jlWltNk_hGU/v-deo.html

  • @ManishKumar-iy9sv
    @ManishKumar-iy9sv 4 роки тому +11

    CASTE SYSTEM has the same issue in hinduism that's why unfortunately india is not becoming the superpower in the world.

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому +1

      Lol. Caste system was in India since vedic times and that was golden period of India. Which economics you study I don't understand.

    • @arpitaroy5482
      @arpitaroy5482 4 роки тому +3

      Caste system should be there but on the basis of profession not on the basis of birth...also i believe a person becomes lower caste by his karma not by birth

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому +1

      @@arpitaroy5482 believe it. Who cares? We don't need your recognition to be a brahman. I have become brahman after upnayan sanskar. Your consideration doesn't matter.

    • @arpitaroy5482
      @arpitaroy5482 4 роки тому

      @@justabir4182 dear...so according to your claim..i can also say that i have become a brahman...my upanayan was held 6 yrs ago...but I'm not like u

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому +1

      @@arpitaroy5482 I dont care and you can never become like me. My caste is my blood and I will never leave it.

  • @SankeerthMSGEC
    @SankeerthMSGEC 4 роки тому +2

    Mam why we not pray and worship during the period called 'sutka' that is some days after a person dies depending of his relationship to us ? please can make a video on this too

    • @Vivek123430
      @Vivek123430 4 роки тому +1

      you can pray
      if i don't get chance to go temple
      i meditate on his name

  • @JackyShaw
    @JackyShaw 4 роки тому +3

    If possible please reply: What to do if women themselves are so deeply convinced that Menstrual Untouchability Custom is extremely true and have unimaginably extreme determination to uphold to it no matter even if she dies? I am talking about my mother. I have done everything to explain her and the matter only got worsened.

    • @JyoSco007
      @JyoSco007 4 роки тому

      I can understand 🙏

    • @harshitha310
      @harshitha310 3 роки тому +1

      Same stuff here
      Guess what
      She will never change
      At this point idc
      I will stop following it the moment i step out of my house
      Do the same
      Break the cycle, spare future generations from this BS

  • @__vaidic__purush_
    @__vaidic__purush_ 3 роки тому +4

    No where it is written for ladies not to go temple during periods. Also at that time people were vedic and so no any temple or idol worshipping was there.. And if you have pain why should you do all works? In this day u have the right of not to do any work including making ur own food. And also during periods immunity gets reduced hence in society there are chances of getting germs and other bacteria by any other human body. And hence in this time u got a chance of not doing anything and just focus on youself and worshipping god may be Doing hawan, Reading shastra, Chanting mantras ,learning dharma, enjoyments (Entertainment) etc can be done...

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  3 роки тому +5

      Today ladies are doctors, surgeons, pilots, defense personnel. they even won medals in the Olympics. Our bodies are not so weak during periods that we cant do other tasks. So certainly there should be no problem for women to go to temples too during periods. Women work through bodily pain as you can see in your own mother's life. They are very strong and not weak. Every Mother is a testament to this. Support your Mother's right to visit temples whenever she wants. Respect your Mother always.

  • @sanjanah.b3995
    @sanjanah.b3995 3 роки тому +3

    Mam you are just speaking about the restrictions against women in the time of periods do you know one thing when i used to watch ISKCON videos I felt very disturbed because they are putting down the status of women so down that they that women should not be given indipendent and she can't be guru/she is not suppose to take sanyasa deeksha. by listining to this things i felt I should live hinduism and I should get converted to other religion

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  3 роки тому +7

      Its a pity if they are doing so. However you must listen to only that which is RIGHT. No need to follow wrong teachings. Reject them firmly. Many people colour spiritual things by their own deep seated prejudices. Soul is sexless. Follow advaita vedanta and know that women can take sannyas and attain to god realization too. Sarada ma was a woman, so was mother mirra (sri aurobindo ashram). Swami Vivekananda gave deeksha to sister nivedita who was a female monk of ramakrishna mission.

    • @sanjanah.b3995
      @sanjanah.b3995 3 роки тому +1

      @@Spiritualbee thank you mam

    • @sanjanah.b3995
      @sanjanah.b3995 3 роки тому

      @@Spiritualbee Yes mam but this people say that this is said in manusmriti unfortunetly many hindus are following ISKCON

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  3 роки тому +2

      @@sanjanah.b3995 manusmriti is a secondary text and its injunctions are valid only for certain times. In today's time it is obsolete. So we dont need to follow it. This has been said by swami Vivekananda himself. Watch my video on Manusmriti
      ua-cam.com/video/g_A-pgHyi1o/v-deo.html
      Dont worry about others and what iskcon ites are saying. In time they will correct their mistakes as the coming era is of women empowerment. Women will naturally reject wrong teachings.
      (It is pity though that they are saying such things)

    • @sanjanah.b3995
      @sanjanah.b3995 3 роки тому

      @@Spiritualbee Thank you for the information

  • @srila09
    @srila09 4 роки тому +5

    I also agree that certain humiliation happened ( still happening) to women during that period. Entering houses is certainly needed in this modern era (depends on situation). But entering temples is certainly needs to be avoided as we don't fully understand science and technology behind Indian temples. I don't understand how you come to quick conclusion that temple energies can not be effected negatively on either idol or the women during mensuration period. I will certainty avoid going to temples during my periods. Instead I prefer to do meditation at that time.

    • @fact5832
      @fact5832 4 роки тому +4

      This channel certainly appears to be backed by Communists who are loosing their hold for being anti Hindu... Now they are directly targeting the customs trying to prove that is against core Hindu ideas.
      I completely agree with you that the science behind the temples is not fully known or understood... Drawing conclusions that women can enter the temples because of pads or tampons is too primitive thinking..

    • @briechilli4496
      @briechilli4496 3 роки тому +3

      @@fact5832 Dear “fact”. If you research more, according to the late Jay Lakhani, Hinduism tutor at the Eton College.
      Discussed the evolving of time and circumstances we live in. Example, the time when women were not suppose to enter temples nor kitchens was because they had no sanitary items, women bled naturally. These days women can attend temples and kitchens. We adapt the teachings as we adapt laws according to todays society. 🙏🏽
      Hinduism is democratic.

    • @fact5832
      @fact5832 3 роки тому +2

      @@briechilli4496 hello Brie, thanks for the comment...
      While you have rightly pointed to the fact that traditions change with time, you missed out another fact that science doesn't....
      To know the basics of science behind Hindu temples I would suggest you to go through the below videos
      ua-cam.com/video/30K7xvuRhvU/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/e0ddBT4nM8E/v-deo.html
      Further, regarding kitchen we must not miss the fact that Indian homes/houses are built as per Vastu Shastra. The kitchen is placed in a particular position called as Agni muule(Agni=fire, muule=corner). It is that spot where the impact of heat is highest. So during periods if women enter kitchen the pitta(bodily heat) will increase which can result in excess bleeding. Even food items like spices which increases pitta are avoided during periods...

    • @briechilli4496
      @briechilli4496 3 роки тому +1

      @@fact5832 Thank you for your response 🙏🏽

  • @JyoSco007
    @JyoSco007 4 роки тому

    Didi, a hindi version of this video and the one with Ramana Maharshi & Suri Nagamma, would be great. I want to share this with the mad ladies in my world. They are really hostile in their attitude towards menstruation. Thank you. I'll share this with others who understand English.

  • @mukulsharma217
    @mukulsharma217 3 роки тому

    Blessed to found this YT channel.🙏🏻

  • @DebapriyaChatterjee89
    @DebapriyaChatterjee89 4 роки тому

    Beautiful, I’m inspired. Thank you for this.

  • @ishanipaul8221
    @ishanipaul8221 3 роки тому

    May be the portions of Manusmriti which says that Women are impure in periods are prakshipta portions? Who knows??

  • @kamleshraghuwanshi4634
    @kamleshraghuwanshi4634 4 роки тому +3

    Manusmriti was written to save Hinduism from Buddhism. It saved Hinduism in its difficult time. But it's totally irrelevant now. 🙏

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому +4

      Who told you? You don't find relevance but not all. You don't want to follow then but lecture on behalf of every one. Nearly every scripture went some changes for the time like manusmriti but it's still relevant to us. You don't have the right to say on behalf of use. Never.

    • @kamleshraghuwanshi4634
      @kamleshraghuwanshi4634 4 роки тому +1

      Swami Vivekananda told it.
      Book reference "Swami Vivekananda : Sankshipt Parichay aur Updesh".
      In last chapter of this book, it is given.
      Go and read dear Bramhin. 😏🙄🙄

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому

      @@kamleshraghuwanshi4634 Swami vivekanand only put his opinion. It's an option not compulsory. Like every tradition of Hinduism accepting and not accepting is depending on the individual. There is alternative for everything. Perhaps you don't belong to brahmin so you are jealous of us.

    • @kamleshraghuwanshi4634
      @kamleshraghuwanshi4634 4 роки тому +3

      @@justabir4182
      🤣🤣
      Well this shows your ignorance level. Hinduism ruined due to people like you. I'm not jealous, if Bramhins are like your thinking, then I'm thankful to god that I'm not a Bramhin.
      In fact I'm ashamed that people like you still exist in Hinduism. 🤔😓😓😓

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому

      @@kamleshraghuwanshi4634 I don't give a shit on your shame. A stupid can only think that Hinduism is ruined. Entire Hinduism was made by brahmin. But ungrateful people will always bark like non sense. Just by reading some books you think you gained knowledge. To gain knowledge one must go under thinking process. The people like you who think that texts are by paas of mind.

  • @aryankapoor6731
    @aryankapoor6731 4 роки тому +1

    Ma'am can you please make a video to explain different yugas and their duration according to vedantic texts.

  • @rajiraj4
    @rajiraj4 3 роки тому +1

    excellent clear explanation!

  • @pratikshabaral
    @pratikshabaral 4 роки тому +1

    Nice video, pulikt dd. Can you please make a video on how Hinduism says everything is one, there is no discrimination between male and female whatsoever and patriarchy is just how the family were run at that time not something that has to be followed not a theory based on Hinduism

  • @n.ramthilak4475
    @n.ramthilak4475 3 роки тому +1

    Better question is why will you want to go to a temple when ur bleeding??

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  3 роки тому +15

      Ah yes...women can bleed during child birth, they can feed their family, go to work, save lives as doctors especially during COVID, protect the nation as policewomen, soldiers and fighter pilots all while "bleeding"...but they can't go to temple while bleeding. Wow!
      Also god does not reside just in a temple. If you had read the vedas, upanishads and gita you would know that God is present in the soul of each and every patient whom a lady doctor treats while on her periods. "Matra pitra devo bhava" - every woman while "bleeding" serves her inlaws and parents in whom god dwells. So pls correct your understanding of hinduism and stop supporting regressive social customs.

    • @markermiranda4994
      @markermiranda4994 3 роки тому +2

      @@Spiritualbee well said sister

  • @priroy16
    @priroy16 4 роки тому +1

    Really a good one didi :-)

  • @SunilKumarTelugu
    @SunilKumarTelugu 4 роки тому +6

    you are being apologetic, on one hand you say it is for hygiene and on the other you say it should be recalled, when its correct then how can it be repressive are you not contradicting in your views
    our customs are ours we should practice for our sake and not for others sake or what others think, this political correctness virus should be removed from our minds
    they are given rest it is what it is we dont have to prove it to anybody if yourself dont have respect for your customs then how can you expect respect from others

    • @SunilKumarTelugu
      @SunilKumarTelugu 4 роки тому

      @@Dega-sl1hk
      giving rest during those days is more scientific and advanced than you think my friend, don't be politically correct, if you don't respect and be apologetic then how can you expect other to respect you
      they go through mental and physical stress on that days you should give care and relaxation to them and not works

  • @subramanianbalan9909
    @subramanianbalan9909 4 роки тому

    श्रुति स्मृति पुराणां आलयं करुणालयं |
    नमामि भगवद्पदं शङ्करं लोकशन्करं ||

  • @avikchakraborty4745
    @avikchakraborty4745 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for this eye opening info. Didi a Hindi version would be really helpful.. Great work

  • @bkmaharana
    @bkmaharana 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks, very logical and rational analysis and presentation

  • @Vivek123430
    @Vivek123430 4 роки тому

    thanks sis

  • @kunalkhandagale7615
    @kunalkhandagale7615 4 роки тому +1

    My dear sister Pulkit, @ 9:50 please help such ignorant women who don't understand Hinduism is by far my knowledge best religion in the world. Islam have historically oppressed woman right from their birth while Christianity has lost its traditions and customs due to excessive liberalism.

    • @JyoSco007
      @JyoSco007 4 роки тому

      That's right but we cannot call her "ignorant" and insult her. She's reacting our of her own circumstances.

  • @nanthakr8378
    @nanthakr8378 4 роки тому +1

    Most of the rules are inapplicable and some are cruel. Who wrote such barbaric rules?. Are they really Brahmans? Are they really humans?

    • @Spiritualbee
      @Spiritualbee  4 роки тому +5

      Many distortions have also crept into the original Manusmriti. Some in the priestly class have inserted their own ideas. So that is why we find contradictory teachings in the Manusmriti, which are hard to reconcile.

    • @justabir4182
      @justabir4182 4 роки тому

      Yes we are really brahmin and human as well. If you find us cruel then follow some else.

    • @kamleshraghuwanshi4634
      @kamleshraghuwanshi4634 4 роки тому +1

      @@justabir4182 go to hell you moron. Hinduism died because of people like you.
      And who the hell is following you...?
      We follow Swami Vivekananda, who totally discarded caste system.
      Are you morons Bramhins more intellectual than Swami Vivekananda ?
      Go to hell. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

    • @madhusudanprata9783
      @madhusudanprata9783 4 роки тому +1

      Dear Pulkit and Dear Friends : While I agree that this menstrual untouchability is a thing of past, Pulkit ji has not mentioned about the physical problems that women face during menstrual times. From what I understand through scripts or renowned discourses, women were given complete rest for those 3 days to overcome their physical pain. The pain intensity might differ from person to person, but this is the main aim and NOT ban them from anything during their periods. This is what I understand, think and believe are correct. Pl forgive me if I misrepresented anything.

    • @junacebedo888
      @junacebedo888 3 роки тому

      @@Spiritualbee
      The book or writings has been compromised?