The statement sounds like a parody in a country like India where we Worship the feminine as a Goddess. Is it really discrimination that women must not enter the temple during their mensuration? The answers are already there but let us first understand the situation:
As in my previous write-up “An atheist, a fool!”, I would like to reinstate that what foolish men speak should not be taken as a commandment of their religion itself. Firstly, Hinduism is the most carefully documented way of life that is bestowed to its followers. If men say that a woman is impure during her mensuration and that’s why she should not enter a temple; it is only a half understood truth! It is very easy to misinterpret facts when fools are at the helm and teachers are teachers by mistake.
In Hinduism, Goddess Durga is worshipped as the one who eliminates all the impurities in form of demons from the society. Even if other religions don’t worship females, they must appreciate the fact that it is women who are given the power to bring life on earth! This in itself is god like power. Now as science goes, a woman accumulates these energies every month and if pregnancy is not achieved, she has the power to cleanse herself each month by way of mensuration. She does this each month because her god-like powers of procreation require her to be pure and divine always. Our hindu mythology correlates this with the waxing and waning phase of the moon where one fine night we observe Amavasya or no Moon hence the cycle is for a month.
During the mensuration, a woman absorbs energies of her surrounding so as to clean herself and hence attains the status of Goddess Durga with all that energy. Ideally as a goddess she should not worship other demigods and if she will enter the temple, she will have the power to even absorb the energy of the idol making it lifeless. At this time this woman should be worshipped rather than she worshipping others. This was the reason why in ancient India women stayed away from others during this period so as prevent absorption of negative energies; they ate specific types of foods that helped them cleanse themselves and observed many other restrictions and discipline. This practice in itself was divine, however, owing to a fools’ prerogative it became oppression. They started using the word “barred” rather than “to worship”, both men and women.
During worship we need to absorb and accumulate, during menstruation she needs to get rid of or release, so biologically it will interfere with the process itself. Worship is the process of accumulation of positive energies or channelizing our energies towards a positive direction. Our only trouble is people go to temple not to worship but either to beg, or for fashion or for superstition or for ego.
