The AFP put out a Story, Walk-in Vagina, Kindles anger, approval in South Africa‘ three days ago.
It was picked up Hypervocal and other sites as well.
There is implication that it represents Goddess kali of Hinduism, though the woman who is reported to have designed the whole thing does not say so in the Video.
She says .’ it is the voice from Space from a Satisfied woman'( Probably she checked it and knows what screaming at Sex is all about!
She has Indian sounding Name and she says The Vagina expresses the world and is Sacred and empowers a woman!n
Hindus need not be bothered by these and the likes of MF Husain.
They get creative when they quote or Paint The Obscene and relate to Hinduism, in the name of Creativity.
Hindus and Hinduism need not bother about the Perverts and the chorus of Liberals supporting this ‘Freedom”
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South African artist Reshma Chhiba has upset some and impressed others for turning a women’s jail in Johannesburg previously used to house anti-apartheid activists into a 39 foot high red fabric vagina surrounded by black fabric pubic hair that occasionally screams. You have to take your shoes off to step inside.
The exhibition is called “The Two Talking Yonis” and is largely inspired by the Hindu goddess Kali. According to the Agence France-Presse, it is a commentary “on the mythology of female power in patriarchal systems.” Chhiba explained:
“It’s a screaming vagina within a space that once contained women and stifled women,” she told AFP. “It’s revolting against this space… mocking this space, by laughing at it.”
Chhiba says that she didn’t make this installation just for controversy’s sake but to press people to think about their bodies differently, especially in a country like South Africa, which has such high rates of rape and sexual assault:
“You don’t often hear men talking about their private parts and feeling disgust or shamed,” as women often do, she said.
“And that alone speaks volumes of how we’ve been brought up to think about our bodies, and what I am saying here is that it’s supposed to be an empowering space.”
Some have found the piece shocking, taking issue both with the installations placement in this historic jail, its subject matter and, for some Hindus, its involvement of their religion. Chhiba says she doesn’t understand the controversy behind her work, explaining herself articulately inthis radio interview. In response to her male interviewer who started off asking her how to explain the installation because he was “a little uncomfortable because I don’t know how to refer to it,” Chhiba said, “You are definitely correct in calling it a vagina”:
“The idea is that you’re completely contained and consumed by this representation of something that is meant to be a space that is of power and defiance.
It sort of recalls in a general way those touch-tunnels in children’s museums where it’s totally dark and you have to use all your senses but sight. Except less frightening and more fun to lie around in.’
Source:
http://jezebel.com/artist-builds-a-screaming-walk-in-vagina-1227032284
She is right , as per the Tantra Shastra, as for as Shakti Worship is concerned.
But the feeling one gets it is that this is a cheap Publicity stunt.
It shows the mentality of people who think below the navel or do they think from below?
Kali is the Goddess of Roudra or Righteous Rage ,not sexual satisfaction.
The Video.
The Story.
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Nice site.I have posted my frank comments in the site.
Incarnations of Maa Durga
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Wonderful Sir .thank you so much. I do have the translations in English or the Katha Upanishad, but it’s going above my head. I have been hunting for those books myself. I could find only commentaries of a few Upanishads in both Sanskrit and English in Vedanta Book House, near the Sringeri Shankar Math in Basavangudi, But I’m not sure about the Bhagavadgita, But they were pretty expensive and they’re probably one of the few stores that have it. I was really tempted to buy it, but budget constraints forced me to buy the Vivekachudamani. It’s brilliant Sir. It’s the only work of Acharya I guess where he mentions his name( in the last verse). I’ll send both the Sanskrit text and English pdf’s of the Kathopanishad to you e-mail Sir . Sir do listen to his pravachanams beacuse he tells you so many things about Acharya which Wikipedia and others leave out. For example,there are these two lines in a verse from the Mandukya Upanishad, It so happens that he was the only person to write a commentary for those two lines, none of the Bhasyakaras wrote a commentary.This in fact was the question posed by Akhandanada Saraswathi( he lived 2 decades back) to his guru ie as to why only Shankacharya wrote a commentary for those two lines. I really don’t know what his guru replied coz when Nochurji said it there was lots of laughter, either that or my Tamil is terrible.
Thank you.
Hello Sir, I don’t know if you take requests but if you do can you write a post on the controversies regarding Taj Mahal (the fact that it was once a Shiva Temple called Tejo Mahalaya).
Kind Regards
Sanjay Prasad.
Will do.
In fact I have collected material during my trip to Agra and some references.
Shall post.
It was and is a Siva Temple.
Thank you Sir. It really haunts me Sir for the fact that there are Shiva lingams that are not being looked after. They can atleast break down the rooms and see what’s in the bowels of Taj Mahal and give a home to the lingams.
Sir if you are interested in Pravachana on Adi Shankaracharya by Nochur Venkatraman you can download them, I will send you a link below. I felt so thrilled to have met him when he came to Bangalore a few months back.
http://sumukam.wordpress.com/discourses/brahma-sri-nochur-venkatarama/
If you want the story of Adi Shankaracharya you can find it in Shankaracharya Vaibhavam(not to be confused with Shankara Vaibhavam) as it contains all the files. He’s brilliant Sir. I heard him quote one of the commentaries of Shankaracharya in the Katha upanishad. The shloka where the world is compared to a tree upside down and Acharya’s commenatry for that is extremely lenghty-sentence wise. I have never seen sentences like those in Sanskrit.
Thank you for your time Sir.
Kind Regards
Sanjay Prasad.
Thank you for your suggestions and information. I will definitely visit the Links and write about them as well to enable people to know. As to Kathopanishad Tree example,a parallel in the Gita as well. I had an idea of writing a commentary explanation of Adi Sankaracharya on Bhagavad Gita and also a series on the Bhagavad Gita sloka by sloka, the latter I think I need the help of some one who can dictation. Let me see what He thinks. Regds