--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:49 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <dickmays@> wrote: > >> > >> Dress: > >> In keeping with the special character of Guru Purnima in the Vedic > >> calendar, everyone should wear their most dignified dress. > >> > >> Ladies should wear saris or long dresses or long skirts (no pants > >> or punjabis) and completely cover their heads and shoulders with > >> the sari or shawls/scarves in the Dome--to be dressed properly > >> for a Vedic performance. > >> > >> Men should wear coat and tie or a dress kurta with nice pants. > >> No one should wear anything made of leather into the Dome (after > >> removing shoes as usual in the shoe areas) such as belts, wallets, > >> watchbands, or purses. > >> > >> Ladies' consideration: > >> As is the Vedic tradition, ladies who are pregnant or having their > >> monthly cycle should not attend. > > > > > > And some misguided souls have suggested that the > > TM organization is a weird Hindu cult. This should > > dispel all those ugly rumors. > > Barry, I was hoping that someone with a little more sense of > humor than I was able to summon up upon reading that would > respond. Thanks. > > It would be great satire if it wasn't actually for real. > > Sal
I heard from a woman, one time, that men were kind of afraid of a woman's power, when she was in her monthly cycle, and of course a pregnant woman is certainly a powerhouse of Life... Seems like this prejudice has to do more with making a woman feel 'dirty' or 'less then'... Sad.
