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00:00With you throughout is the kind of principle with which even today from the Vedic days till today the weddings happen

00:07But we don't highlight any of that

00:11Even at that time here

00:15One photo no, you're in a hurry. All right, come, please take a

00:19Come say come was up the fatigue a month Rika

00:23man woman equality

00:26nothing better than that

00:31It's

00:33An indigenous

00:35Civilizational value

00:38I'll finish with this is a month of Margazhi a

00:43very sacred month and

00:45Why do I talk about this month now?

00:48in Tamil Nadu

00:50from 8th century a

00:55Woman a child

00:57adolescent girl

00:59Who wanted only to marry Shri Krishna?

01:04In the form of Ranganatha

01:09Composes 30 verses

01:12She's also composed a different poem altogether

01:16And in that looks at Krishna as her home, you know, I want to marry him. I want to be with it and

01:23brings out the achievements of the Lord in all the

01:27Dashavatara

01:29The scholarship the bhakti that devotion with which she aspires only to marry him no human

01:40This civilization

01:42has treated her as

01:45one of the twelve

01:48Alvars, Alvars are people who praise the Lord Vishnu

01:53It was not reserved only for men Alvars a woman Alvar

01:58adolescent Alvar a girl and

02:01her worship

02:03Her way of worshipping is treated as one of the highest forms of bhakti

02:10We didn't stay away. We didn't wait to beatify people monks woman, you know

02:19Women nuns or monks as you would call

02:23They were part of us

02:25The way she worshipped is the way in which all of us think bhakti should be displayed

02:32So we didn't ever deny

02:35Without taking more of your time

02:38So this is a civilizational issue

02:41It's a civilizational

02:44marker for us

02:46That our standards of dealing with women our standards of giving role to women are

02:52unique about which we should talk in our terms and

02:57we should be proud to do that rather than try to fix it into some other template and

03:03Always found out always find ourselves wanting but in that this is a great attempt

03:09I once again congratulate Bharteshwari Shakti for it. Thank you

03:16You

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