Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates ‘Women’s Upliftment’ of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
4.5. Women’s Upliftment
[Full title: Bhagavān Svāminārāyaṇa and His Tradition (5): Women’s Upliftment]
For the female devotees, He took a bold and revolutionary step. He introduced special arrangements for them to sit and worship in Mandiras on an equal footing with men and appointed women well-versed in the Satsang literature to teach female devotees. Hitherto, women had been neglected by society. Hence, they could neither obtain formal education nor religious instruction. In fact, in the recent history of Indian culture, He was the first to liberate women in the real sense the world knows today. Through his grace, many female devotees attained an exalted spiritual state.[1] 23