Married Women's Right to Vedic Study
Married Women's Right to Vedic Study The debate of the right of women to Vedic study is contested, and I am yet to write an elaborate blog on it. However, in the meantime, I noticed that assuming the conservative view, there is a loophole that allows for married women to undergo Vedic study. The prohibition for women (and Shudras) to undergo Vedic study comes from their lack of Upanayanam, or the sacred thread. That is it. It has nothing to do with chakras or male and female energies or any of that esoteric nonsense. All restrictions that you find in the scriptures, such as Bhagavatam 1.4.25, on Vedic learning and chanting OM is because they have no sacred thread, but not of those are a reason to deny them the sacred thread. After all, Preclusion of the Effect is Not Preclusion of the Cause . Thus all we have to do is establish whether women have Upanayanam (it is near impossible to establish this for Shudras). This topic deserves a longer article, so for now, I am going to wri...