To be believed as a living goddess should be a very honorable thing, because even the king has to bow down to himself three times and nine times, which is not something that ordinary women can enjoy. However, in recent years, Nepal's enthusiasm for participating in the living goddess has become less and less, and by 2010, only five families in the whole of Nepal were willing to participate in the selection of the living goddess, which is very contrary to the picture.
So, why is the living goddess who was once a highlight less and less loved? Some people say that the living goddess is not only very uncomfortable during her reign, but also her life after retirement is also very miserable, and today we will talk about the tragic life of the living goddess in Nepal.
It is difficult to be selected under harsh conditions
Every nation has its own totem, and every faith has its own yearning. In the case of the living goddess of Nepal, the fact that she can be worshipped together by both Hinduism and Buddhism is something that Kumari should be proud of. Kumari means virgin in Nepali, but don't you think that this condition is not very simple? Almost any little girl has this experience, isn't everyone a living goddess?
In fact, in practice, the selection of living goddesses is really a difficult task, and sometimes it takes a year to complete. The first is that the age is within four years. The second is that the ancestors of the goddess must live on both sides of the Bhagmati River, the holy river in Kathmandu, and this condition is somewhat restrictive. The Bagmati River originates in the Sopuri Mountains in northern Kathmandu, flows through the lower plains, and joins the Ganges with other small tributaries.
In other words, the Bagmati River is the mother river of the Ganges, the holy river of Nepal in Nepal, the Ganges in India, and the holy river of India.
One might think that as a holy river, it must be crystal clear and crystal clear, but like the Ganges in India, the Bagmati River is the place where Hindus hold open cremations, which is very contrary to the word holy river. It is not difficult to imagine that the environmental pollution caused by the grand cremation ceremony on the banks of the Holy River, especially the pollution of the Bagmati River, will be difficult to reverse, because people often dump the cremated ashes directly in this holy river to pray for the early ascension of the deceased.
Whether the blood of the living goddess is pure or not is even more demanding. She must be a pure direct descendant of Shakyamuni, not a branch, a clean history, and no suspicion of a case within five generations. Fourth, the living goddess must possess the 32 virtues that a woman should have, such as knowing shame and knowing shame. For the body and mouth karma, it is necessary to cultivate equally and not to be biased. It is necessary to remain dignified before and after people, and not to attract unnecessary slander.
Not only that, girls must learn to endure humiliation, not afraid of fierce blood, and always be able to calm down life, because you are a god and not a man.
At the same time, the living goddess should be ready to educate and educate people, to give alms to the world, to think of saints and sages, and so on. It can even be said that being able to become a qualified living goddess is no less than graduating from Notre Dame Cathedral.
However, for a little girl who is only four years old, is this kind of moral education and conduct teaching a little premature? Will it affect the healthy growth of the little girl?
Of course, these people don't have to care, or even let it go. This is because the so-called living goddess does not need to preach and chant, the only thing she can do is to accept the worship of the believers, and then use her fingers to light the red on the forehead of the believers.
As a descendant of Shakyamuni, the living goddess is perfect in appearance, she is dignified and generous, gentle and kind. She is beautiful, slender, and civilized and elegant. What is even more precious is that the holy woman must not have a scar on her body, not even acne, of course, not to mention menstrual blood.
The sadness of childhood prompted the abdication of desolation
Of course, it is an honor to be identified as a living goddess, but don't think that you can jump the dragon gate with carp in the future and do whatever you want from now on, because as a living goddess, in fact, her doom has just begun, and this kind of day will last for ten years.
The first is separation from family, which is not like a parting of life and death, but it is more cruel than that. What would a four-year-old girl do? In addition to lying in front of her parents, it is playing, but here in the living goddess, it is all day long with a straight face that does not know how to pretend to understand the morals, and a faction of gods is nagging, because this is her life, or work.
Every morning when I get up early in the morning, I have to be surrounded by a group of people to draw eyebrows and makeup, wash and dress. Then he was carried by a crowd to the temple. Because Nepalese believe that the feet of the holy woman cannot be defiled by mud, even the freedom to walk herself is cruelly deprived.
It is conceivable that a four- or five-year-old girl, sitting on the throne for five or six hours a day, more importantly, can not cry, can not laugh, and can not make any outsiders look a little obedient behavior, which is simply painful for the little girl. Nepalese believe that the hand of the goddess cannot touch the tribute, otherwise it is unlucky. When accepting worship from others, once you willfully cry, it means that there will be disasters.
It is said that once the living goddess suddenly cried without warning, and as a result, on this night, there was a bloodshed in the Nepalese royal family, and the main members of the royal family were killed one after another.
So, whether this nightmare was ended after the abdication of the living goddess, the problem will not be so simple. This is because the goddess has lived on the altar since she was four years old, so she has not received a modern education and it is difficult to integrate with this society.
By the age of fourteen, girls will have to menstruate, so the living goddess is generally changed every ten years. However, the original goddess who stepped off the altar has no long body and is difficult to survive in real life. Later, nepal provided a certain allowance for the retired living goddesses every month according to the regulations to meet their retirement necessities.
Despite this, the retired goddesses are still struggling. This is first of all a long period of pampering, so that they have developed a habitual consciousness of eating to open their mouths, it is difficult to integrate into society, and of course they will not be accepted by society.
Another is that they miss the best age for education, are very repulsive to new things, and are difficult to understand and accept. What is more troublesome is their concept of marriage and childbearing, which is difficult to integrate with society. More importantly, these retired goddesses are thought to have a temper in them, so no one dares to marry them and start a family, let alone breed offspring.
brief summary
Being able to become a living goddess was a blessing for the nepalese in the past, but with the changes in society, people began to resist this so-called selection of living goddesses, because this rhythm directly brought all kinds of cruelty to the goddesses in their youth, and because their lives after retirement were more miserable.
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