Hyderabad, March 8 (Maxim News): All women assembled for worship for 10 minutes in Chilkur Balaji temple on occasion of International Women’s Day. For 10 minutes, it was all women and girls near dhwajasthambham and the men were briefed about the respect due to women in Chilkur.
It was International Women’s Day and it was a great way of reiterating Chilkur Balaji Temple’s commitment to restore the status of women in the society. The Hereditary Priest Rangarajan had reminded the devotees how in the past an ancient forgotten tradition became a means for spreading awareness on respecting and caring for girl children. The way Chilkur Balaji temple had organised ‘Kanya Vandhanam’ at a government school in 2018. About 108 girl students of class I were part of the programme in Manikonda which involved offering them new clothes and bangles. While the priests chanted the name of goddess Mahalakshmi 108 times, the students were applied turmeric and made to perform certain rituals.
“Girls are considered a form of goddess Mahalalshmi in our culture. But, many are increasingly becoming insensitive towards girls today. If you look at the male-female ratio, though the girls are in low numbers, they are not treated properly. Through this programme, we had decided to sensitise the society on the need to respect women and girls properly,” said C.S. Rangarajan, Archaka, Chilkur temple.
At that time, Boys of the same school were asked to promise that they would not treat girls badly. According to Mr. Rangarajan, all events like Raksha bandhan, Kanyavandanam, Jatayu Sena where each male member would commit to protect women from adverse situations were all devised for this special goal. Women deserve better treatment . (Maxim News)
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