My Thoughts on a query about on our ancients' wisdom and current generation's attitudes...
( Reply sent to a very erudite scholar) Sir, With due respect to your superior scholarship, May I urge you get Sri Madhwacharya's works in Saskrit and study a few ... Sanskrit language being etymological, needs to be understood and interpreted correctly, you will agree. If you know Kannada language there are a good number of audio files by Shri Govinda Bannanjee, a renowned Sanskrit Scholar, who actually answers your specific question about women. There is absolutely no denigration of women in our culture. Gargi and Gayatri are all women and as far as jeeva swarupa is concerned, being pratibimba of the bimba swarupa of the creator himself, there is no difference between men and women. Many western educated and western oriented thinking processess and attitudes pick up some odd sentences and misquote and mislead to denounce our ancient dharma I believe. Modern secularism only meant how to put down Hinduism. Hinduism is not a religion in that narrow sense. Again caste is one such thi...