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US President Joe Biden salutes next to first lady Jill Biden after Biden's remarks to commemorate LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the East Room of the White House, Washington.
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US President Joe Biden salutes next to first lady Jill Biden after Biden's remarks to commemorate LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the East Room of the White House, Washington.
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Savera, you've raised some very interesting points, on which we can shed some light now.👍🏼Originally posted by: Savera84
I am sure homosexuality was depicted in ancient world just like it was depicted in ancient India through epic stories like Ramayana and Mahabharata.
What baffles me is, when and where did this dislike emerged from?
We can't help what happened years or centuries ago.
What we can do now is, understand that all human beings are equal and each deserves respect just like the other one next door.
Kudos to everyone, who overcame the problem and made non accepting others realise their mistake. 👏
Salute to you all.
Cheers.....
For the western world, LGBTQ might be a very modernized concept, but for us, it is an important part of ancient mythology.
Let’s take some time to appreciate what ancient Indian mythology tells about LGBTQ. The existence of God or any other Mythical characters is a different argument, but isn’t it amazing that there were characters in ancient epics about how normal LGBTQ was??
In the 21st century, we might have labeled the different sexual orientations under LGBTQ but ancient Indian mythology has stories and descriptions about sexual orientations other than male and female.
The mythological stories re-written by several authors, the translations from Sanskrit and other factors might have changed the contexts, and might not be the same as modernized concepts of LGBTQ, but the stories clearly intend that different sexual orientations are natural, joyful, and not to be ashamed of.
Our Mythology has always believed that an individual has strong elements of both male and female within. Concepts like Ardhanaishwara which depicts ‘’Totality that lies beyond duality’’ and our Deities changing their genders for the Greater cause were always considered noble and we worship them for their good deeds. There are well-known stories of Vishnu taking Mohini avatar and Arjuna taking the Brihannala avatar. There are sculptures depicting the same-sex relationships on many temple tops including the famous Khajuraho.
Shikandi is the daughter of King Drupada played a major role in Mahabharata. She was born as a female but grew up to be a man. King Drupada even married her to a princess after which Shikandi changes the gender (physically) with the help of Yaksha and lead blissful married life with wife and children!
Varuna and Mithra are two gods who are known for their intimate male-male relationship. Mithra controls the oceans and seas, while Varuna controls rivers and lakes. In the Vedic literature, they are depicted together riding a Shark or a crocodile, it is also said that they had children Agastya and Vashistha with Urvashi like the modern day’s Gay couples who follow surrogacy to have children!
Bhagiratha who bought Ganga river to earth is said to have two mothers who were in love. He was named Bhagiratha which means born to two women (two Bhagas). The history treats it as a miraculous birth, a part of the story is untold, however the purity of the two Queen’s relationship with each other is honored by the Gods themselves.
Agni is the god of fire and creativity. It is said that he was married to a female partner Svaha and a Male partner Soma (Moon god). Soma and Agni are said to sustain together and carry forward our daily aspects of life.
These are only a very few stories out of many from the ancient history of this country. All these stories sound very normal because they were written seamlessly with a lot of dignity, it was never mentioned that things like this are unnatural or that there is something alien about these characters. We always respected these stories from Mahabharata, Ramayana, and all the other epics. Is that just because the characters were God?
As a matter of fact, Homosexuality was never illegal or criminal offense in India until the British. During British rule, the laws were enacted and it was criminalized. However, in Sep 2018 Supreme Court decriminalized the same.
Let’s respect Humans as Humans and never create an environment where humans are sorry for their identity!! Am sure the world will be a better place if humans stood for humans and not wait for some superpower to act upon things.
If someone already mentioned this , then please ignore this friends. 🤗
'I Carry You With Me': A gay couple's epic love story offers 'hope' for LGBTQ immigrants
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