Bhakti Vikas Trust has recently published a new book titled “How I Achieved Real Success – A Happiness Guide for Modern Women” by Indira Meshram (Indira Sakhi Devi Dasi).
Based on her own experience as an ex-career woman as well as a chaste wife and a dedicated mother, she presents the secret to a woman’s real success and happiness. Quoting extensively from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings as well as from contemporary authors, she analyzes thoroughly the drawbacks of the modern day feminism and the abundant advantages of following the traditional gender roles. Some interesting topics that this book focuses on are – Respect and Protection, Marriage, Motherhood, Education and Career, Conduct, and Vedic Culture for Modern Women.
Today women have far more opportunities than their grandmothers could even imagine – they can be CEOs, astronauts, and heads of states. Yet, research shows that modern women are unhappier than ever. Through an analysis of ancient scriptures and contemporary literature, this book offers a solution. It provokes women to consider an unconventional paradigm shift to achieve the fulfillment that’s eluding them. This book is a must-read for every intelligent being.
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The following are a few highlights from a review of the book by Parth Sadhukhan, who is a Men’s Rights Activist (MRA). For the complete review, visit here (https://themalefactor.com/2020/06/28/how-vedic-feminism-makes-a-difference/)
How Vedic Feminism Can Make A Difference in Your Life
The book – How I Achieved Real Success – A Happiness Guide For Modern Women, tells us about a lot of finer feminist issues that we face today. Even though the book is written only for women and provides a happiness guide for them, it indeed works as the happiness guide for everyone, men included. That is where comes the success of Vedic Style of feminism, that is often misinterpreted as men’s rights or masculinist ideology. But when we learn about Vedic philosophy and the Vedic way of protecting women, we will see that Vedic philosophy is a feminist philosophy.
The author was candid in discussing every feminist issue that revolves around family today – Women’s respect, protection, gender roles, debates around ‘nature and nurture’, arranged child marriages, polygamy, divorce, motherhood, education, career and conduct all are discussed at length. The writer Indira Meshram has shown in each of these feminist issues, why the Vedic principles were, in fact, favourable for women. She has discussed modern dating culture while discussing partner choices and also the hookup culture in American colleges to establish how these are ruining the physical and social well-being of women.
What is amazing to find in all these discussions is she seemed to have put all her arguments flawlessly and in such a logical manner, that being a men’s rights activist myself I was awestruck by her way of feminism. The reason I call the Vedic lifestyle a feminist lifestyle is because even though I find some components of men’s rights in it, it was predominantly structured around feminism.
One major point that I have noticed in this book was her in-depth research on feminism related matters. I myself am doing research on similar topics for 8 years now, however, I didn’t have so much study in these burning topics. Even though I try to follow a simple Vedic lifestyle but that is nowhere near what the real people like Indira practices; I still eat non-veg, use artificial material benefits like electricity, electronic gadgets and don’t follow the daily routine of prayers etc. still I have observed genuine happiness in my life. But despite that in some of the burning feminist issues I didn’t have a logical explanation and used to consider those as women’s oppression. Issues related to arranged child marriages, education, career and workforce participation and gender roles of making males the provider for women seemed very much gender-biased and unethical to me. Surprisingly, this book has given an explanation of all of these in the most logical and convincing way. I wonder how many years of dedicated study she had done for this work so that she could gather so much relevant information.
The book, “How I Achieved Real Success” also tells us what ‘success’ really is; and the way she told us, it never looked as if she was trying to preach us her personal belief without any scientific basis. What makes this book unique is that it preaches the Vedic Philosophy in our own language but it never felt as if she was trying to preach something based on her thought process or from some Sanskrit scriptures that we don’t understand. Her research was very modern and contemporary; her explanations were very concise yet detailed enough to cover all aspects of a topic; it was Vedic and scientific. I have not seen one single MRA who could successfully deal with these burning feminist issues with so much clarity and successfully debunk modern feminist theories.
That is where Vedic Philosophy is known as the most scientific one, that is where the expertise and wisdom of the author Indira Meshram come into play. This book is surely a winner in teaching the success mantras of life. The Mantra that even life coaches should start preaching and the common people like us should start following. A substantial reason for every individual to get a copy of this book and read and treasure the knowledge for one’s life. These gems are not created often and you surely can’t miss the opportunity to grab a copy of your success mantra fast.
For the original article, visit here (https://themalefactor.com/2020/06/28/how-vedic-feminism-makes-a-difference/)
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