Building a Healthy Society – Excerpt A
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from A General Guidebook for Táttvikas

Building a Healthy Society – Excerpt A
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Women’s Welfare: The position of the women is most wretched and pitiable in the society. The duty of the táttvikas(1) is to preach the philosophy of the Marga among the womenfolk, to wipe off superstitions, to remove illiteracy, to arrange Dharmacakra [collective meditation] and to raise their standard of living. It is seen that after the death of their husbands, widows have to face economic crisis. Therefore, they should be given chances to earn their own livelihood.(2)

Superstition is not the only reason behind the dowry system but it has also the economic background. Neither speeches nor removal of superstition will solve this knotty problem, so long as the economic reason exists. The importance of the boy is higher than that of the girl, because the former is an asset highly assessed by the society and the latter is the liability. The dowry system can be removed only when the girls are given opportunities to earn their own livelihood.


Footnotes

(1) Spiritual teachers of Ananda Marga. –Trans.

(2) A paragraph omitted here. –Trans.

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