GHOSHA In the Vedas, 27 women seers emerge from the myriad hymns. One of the most prominent of these is Ghosha, the daughter of Kakshivat who himself is known to have composed hymns in Rig Veda. Gosha is credited with two hymns in the tenth chapter of Rig Veda. The first one eulogizes the great twin physicians Ashwins, while the second one brings out her intense craving for a wedded life. LOPAMUDRA The Rig Veda there figures long discussions between the seer Agasthya and Lopamudra, his wife, which exhibit the immense knowledge of the latter. As per the legend sage Agasthya, created Lopamudra and handed over her as an infant to the King of Vidarbha who raised her, providing her all the comforts of royalty. Later, when she grew up marriageable young, Agasthya the wise, who had taken the vows of celibacy, was so impressed by her intellect that he wanted to marry her. Lopa consented to wed him, abandoning her royal luxuries for being with Agasthya. But assisting in her husband’s severe practices worn her out. Hence, she composed a hymn, pleading for his love. Ultimately, the sage Agasthya realizing his duties towards his wife, managing both, his domestic and ascetic life with equal felicity, …show more content…
She helped improve her sage-husband Yajnavalkya’s personality and his spirituality. Yajnavalkya had two wives Maitreyi and Katyayani. While Maitreya being knowledgeable in the Hindu scriptures was a ‘brahmavadini’, Katyayani was a housewife. One day the sage vowed to renounce the world, wishing to divide his property between his two wives. He sought to know their wishes. The erudite Maitreyi came on to profess that the material possessions couldn’t render her eternal. Hence instead she sought from her husband the the wealth which ould make her immortal. Yajnavalkya became happily impressed, teaching Maitreyi the doctrine of the soul and giving her the knowledge of attaining
...ld 138). After getting raped by her own father, Kathleen had no desire of living anymore. She left her soul in New York where she was living her dream life in freedom. Materia knew that Kathleen preferred to die, so she did the necessary during her delivery and allowed the babies to live. “James is slowly dismantling his daughter’s lives and breaking them down so they feel worthless. He is the perfect example of what madness and jealousy can do within a family”.(Marissa blogger.com). Simply in a fit of jealousy that someone touched his Kathleen, whom he thought of as his possession; he fails her career and her lifelong dream of singing. Therefore, the father of the family is responsible for ruining his daughter’s life because of his own madness and jealousy. This consequently leads to her early death and unsuccessful life that was spent according to his commands.
She behaved the way she felt was right according to her very devout faith and tries to live her life as God instructed her as best she could. She faced scorn from not only her husband, but also her fellow Christians and peers and yet she never backed down. She stood up against great suffering in order to do what she felt was right, much like Christ himself. Margery Kempe was anything but the stereotypical medieval woman; she was a faithful woman of God who was far more concerned with her heavenly pursuits that her earthly life. While she may have annoyed many of her fellow Christians and peers, and may seems fraudulent or insane to a modern reader, Margery Kempe was a genuine mystic who lived as devout a life as she
...ualities and influences we want to accept as truth instead of blindly accepting the book of myths. She encourages women to descend the ladder and find the “thing itself” and the meaning that thing has for each individual woman.
The first form of power that is revealed to the reader is that of female Mesopotamian gods. Aruru is the goddess of birth (95). Without her loving, delicate craft of creation, there
Curiosity is a concept that has lingered in people’s minds for centuries. Defined as “a strong desire to know or learn something,” curiosity often leads people to question concepts and ideas that are bestowed upon them (Oxford Dictionary, 2017). Music is a subject that people often strive to learn more about. In the realm of composing music, there are certain thoughts that go through the composer's mind that they want to showcase in their piece. When a composer writes, one can assume that their mood is often portrayed in their song, giving that song a distinct emotion. For example, love songs are usually written in two different tones: happy or sad. It is up to the listener to determine which tone it is being portrayed. The act of performing
understand what she felt about her life and her family, since her views differed from the
First, her relationship that Rukamni established with Kenny becomes apparent when she goes to him with the problem of infertility. She gives birth to her first child, a daughter named Ira, but when a year and a half comes and she has not become pregnant with a child and more importantly a boy, she becomes fearful that her husband might leave her. That’s when she goes to Kenny, a doctor from Britain doing missionary work in India, with her problem. He helps her and quickly she becomes pregnant and later gives birth to her first son Thambi. Second, Kenny helps Rukmani's family through Ira hard situation. The first issue was when Ira was first married and she was also having trouble getting pregnant. But unlike her mother's situation her husband returned her to her family. When Ira is returned to Rukmani she frantically brings Ira to Kenny for a treatment. When Ira becomes fertile it is to late however, her husband had already moved on and married another woman. This drives Ira into a serious depression that only the birth of Rukmani's last child Kuti brings her out of. But when the famine comes to her family Kuti suffers the most. With the starvation and diseases Kuti suffers, no medicine Kenny can give the baby will allow him to survive. Kenny being a European doctor represents the complex relationship India has with countries l...
One of the underlying themes Zora Neale Hurston put in her book, Their Eyes Were Watching God was feminism. Hurston used each of Janie’s three marriages to represent Janie moving closer to her liberation and freedom from male dominance. She finally found her liberation and became truly independent after graduating from her final relationship with Tea Cake by killing him.
A large amount of ancient texts contain themes relating to violence, power, and war, while others, such as The Bhagavad Gita and Confucius’ Analects, focus on individual and collective development through a series of selfless acts. The two texts provide an in-depth system of duties and learning created to provide direction for the betterment of the self, as well as society as a whole. The Bhagavad Gita places a greater focus on the duties of individuals that must be fulfilled to achieve an enlightened state with the divine forces. Contradictory consequences are presented for those who choose to act in an egotistical manner and deny their duties. Confucius’ Analects, on the other hand, places its main focus on collective development and responsibility
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
‘Why did she drive a man famous for his piety to such endless hardship and
Sethe is possibly the best thing for herself, knowing she’s an independent woman who was able to take care of herself. I believe Sethe is her best thing because of the qualities of a person she has. Sethe is an independent, strong, and is a person who can make her own decisions. An independent woman is a woman who does not rely on anyone and is confident enough to make their own decisions. Throughout the story we can make inferences that Sethe is possibly her best thing. The story goes on and on, on how Sethe past was and the type of person she was to the end of the story. All her actions and decisions made by Sethe made herself, her best thing.
...l […] his passing from one world into another” (542). Without Raskolnikov’s relationship with Sonia it would have been impossible for him to become this new man, to convert to Christian existentialism and find happiness and meaning in life.
...g, which teaches him patience. She is a pleasant, yet trying first wife. David learns from her that beauty is not everything, and youth is fleeting, although she does die fairly young. When she dies, she tells Agnes that she is leaving David to her. This shows that she does grow to love David, and wants him to be happy always.
As years went on she decided to do something productive with her life. Keller was a woman who made lot’s of achievements in her life with little ability to hear and see. Many thought Keller was the most admired women in America because she did so much with little ability (Feeny “From darkness and silence: The remarkable journey of Helen Keller). On March 3, 1887 she met with Alexander Graham Bell. He was the guy who invented the telephone and also worked with the blind (Feeny “From darkness and silence: The remarkable journey of Helen Keller). On this date she always referred to this “my souls birthday” (Feeny “From darkness and silence: The remarkable journey of Helen Keller). She went to a special school for the deaf as she was growing up (Feeny “From darkness and silence: The rema...