Females victim of pop culture

[seshadri sridharan]

Females victim of pop culture

In the past, people used to cure and treat their skin with oil. With the start and rise of industrialisation, the cosmetic industry came into existence. Initially, companies started making products to protect the skin from the cold and heat. And later on the cosmetics industry amped up its exploitative machinery. With sensual ads, newer and newer tips were given to enhance your “beauty” and make you look younger - all by application of their so-called products. 

Nakedness is harmful for women & beneficial for corporations

Still those capitalists were not satisfied - rather their greed multiplied. With their devious propaganda machinery, they targeted the female population to expose more skin. To do this, the reigning cosmetics firms made an unholy alliance with the fashion industry. Indeed, if you go back 50 - 80 years or more, female clothing covered most or all of the body. And now female clothes have been reduced to almost nothing.

By this way both industries (cosmetics and fashion) exploited the general populace and grossed billions of dollars. The fashion industry saved money by using less raw materials to make scanty clothing that sold at exorbitant prices in the name of high fashion. As this continued, more skin got exposed. And by this way the cosmetic industry got a bumper crop. With so much skin exposed, people had to beautify those large areas of exposed skin like their entire leg, their entire arm front and back, as well as their shoulders, neck and upper back etc. So this is indeed a very large area. In the past only the face was beautified. But now there are far more exposed areas of the body and more products are needed to beautify those areas. So more skin care products were sold. And new products were created. Both the cosmetics and fashion industries became mega-rich, full of mega-corporations. 

The situation became even more degraded when child porn became a huge online business by antisocial elements. Then females felt the need to look even younger and more innocent, having less hair on the body. Indeed, those women who wear bikinis etc not only shave their underarms but their pubic area as well. 

Females duped: tri-headed monster: beauty, fashion, & cosmetics

Sadly, the ignorant public wholly bought into this and did not realise they were getting exploited and cheated. With the baring of the body came the removal of joint hair. That became the standard for female beauty. Essentially, when joint hair was exposed by scanty clothing, women started removing their joint hair. Prior to that they were not removing their joint hair. And then it became pervasive - and if any woman did not shave, wax, or remove their bodily hair they were tagged as ugly, manly, grotesque, and even animalistic. And verily now if you go to the store in any materialistic country, the sheer number of so-called beauty, skin-care products is absolutely staggering and mind-numbing. And the irony is that all those chemicals in those products harmed the body, and removing the joint hair ruined the glandular system etc. So it was a double-loss. But the society had been duped so badly, they had no idea. 

By and large, the whole concept of beauty has been hijacked by the cosmetics industry. And their sole goal is to earn maximum money. And the easiest way to lure the general society is to kindle their lower propensities. Degradation is easy, whereas elevating the mind towards higher ideals is quite difficult. So the tri-headed monster of the beauty, fashion, and cosmetics industries just pushed society deeper and deeper into degradation. Until finally, the vital force was completely squeezed from the common people and they became prime targets of exploitation.

Pawns for male satisfaction

To fulfil their greedy desires, those industry leaders bought film stars, athletes, pop artists, and social divas as their models and spokespersons etc. That was one more nail in the coffin for the common people who now had to spend and purchase their way in order to compete with impossibly “high” beauty standards etc. Indeed, those film stars, athletes, pop artists, and social divas all became co-conspirators in this race to exploit. It was all just a sham and the ones who suffered the most were females who became 100% pawns for male satisfaction. The fashion / beauty / cosmetics industries framed females in this way. And sadly, the society bought into it completely.

Removing joint hair terribly detrimental to the mind

Without hair in the joints, the perspiration spreads creating a particularly putrid odor. On this matter, one should not be swayed by pseudo-culture and underworld literature and values. If one is swayed by those forces and removes the joint hair, they will face various health problems and it will be terribly detrimental to the mind as well.

There are innumerable factors which affect the life and development of a sadhaka. And Sixteen Points is beautifully designed for maximum growth of the human being in all the realms: physical, psycho-physical, psychic, mental, emotional, psycho-spiritual, and spiritual. Keeping the joint hair is one of the Sixteen Points.

Ignorant cut joint hair & harm their own health

So the above is a brief look at how the general society around the globe treats the hair of the body - i.e. joint hair. In and around the various countries there is a terrible misconception and wrong understanding about joint hair. In the west, in the modern era, most women have shaved all their bodily hair besides the head. Because the sex oriented capitalist moguls have imposed this idea that females are just objects of enjoyment and their main role in life is to please males. This is the prevailing misguided perspective. After being spoon-fed this misconception, females began shaving off most of their joint and body hair in order to increase their sex appeal. But ultimately, the sad fact is that they just end up ruining their glandular system and body chemistry. This is the tragedy. And in the world, various communities shave their pubic and underarm regions in order to keep themselves cool. But in truth the opposite effect happens. Instead of keeping cool, without joint hair, that body gets overheated in those areas, and the lymphatic glands get disturbed, depriving the body and mind of dozens of benefits. Sadly ignorant people who cut the joint hair undermine their own health and well-being.

The unique aspect about both the armpit and pubic regions is that they are enclosed areas - that's to say the air does not pass freely through those regions. Consequently, they build-up heat, and the heat gets trapped in both the armpit and pubic regions. In order to control that heat build-up and cool those areas, it is essential to let the joint hair grow in those places and apply oil after bathing. That is essential for the overall health of those regions around the joints including the skin, pores, glands, and sub-glands of those areas. 


Conclusion

The tantric system of Ananda Marga teachings guides us not to cut the hair of the joints of the body. That bodily hair serves an integral purpose for one’s overall health and mental balance. In particular, it protects the glandular and lymphatic systems which have a very subtle effect on both body and mind. We should educate the common people about this and save them from falling prey to the depraving message of pseudo-culture which projects females as sex objects and pressures them to remove all bodily hair. 
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In Him, 
Ra’ga’tmika’ Devi

Here are two of Baba's fundamental mandates about joint hair and daily conduct:
(a) Sixteen Points states, "Never cut the hair of the joints of the body." (1)
(b) Caryacarya guides us, "Do not cut the hair of the joints of the body." (2)

Joint hair and rationality

Ananda Marga philosophy states, "If the testes ... there is proper-secretion of hormones, a youth develops the spirit of rationality. The pubic hair grows due to the activity of the testes. This is the physical effect. The development of rationality is the psychic effect. The nervous system will also be affected. If not hindered by the natural flow of the lymphatic glands, ...leads to the development of hair in the arm pits at the age of fifteen to seventeen in hot countries and seventeen to eighteen in cold countries. Along with this the feeling of rationality grows. For example, a boy may say, “No, father, do not ask me to do that. It is not good.”" (3)

Same benefits happens to female also after puberty 

Ananda Marga philosophy teaches us, "The function of the lymph is to purify the blood and maintain beauty and glory of the body; and by getting into the glands it enables proper secretion of hormones. For the proper development of innate qualities adequate amount of lymph is necessary. The lymph rises up and gets into the brain thus strengthening it."