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●—≺ Preface ≻—●
In people's minds, the word saint often represents a bright and stunning face and a quality of guarding her body like jade.
It wasn't until the real life of the Indian "holy women" was exposed that they became high-level monks and prostitutes in their teens, and when they had no use value, they could only die alone in the end!
Is this really the case with the saints who are popular in India? How were they cruelly handed over by their families to monks to work as prostitutes? After the old age, what is their final end?
●—≺ "Holy Woman" is no longer holy ≻—●
In a brightly lit temple in India, hundreds of devotees gathered in the main hall, and in front of them sat a young girl, looking very immature, no more than ten years old.
Dressed in splendid costumes, she sat on a shrine and lit several oil lamps in front of her, receiving the worship of the believers in front of her.
And this young girl is the "holy woman" of Hinduism.
Although those believers bowed down to worship the saint and showed great piety, they knew in their hearts what kind of situation the saint in front of them would face.
On the surface, it is better to marry the girl to the great deity, but to give the saint to the group of monks in the temple to "enjoy", and they can do whatever they want to the saint until they are sick or old.
When needed, saints are very important beings in religion, they are responsible for receiving people's worship, taking on the mission of communicating with the gods, and sitting there in front of the "mascot" of the temple.
But most of the time, these holy women are just high-ranking monks and prostitutes in the temple, and they are faced with monks who are several years older than themselves, or even teenagers or decades, and their needs must be satisfied as much as possible for their sexual needs.
However, these monks are not the only ones they "serve", if there is a large-scale event, or if there is a large amount of "incense" for the temple, the believers can also ask to have sex with the holy woman.
In Hinduism, the original holiness of the saint is gone, and in its place is every dirty night, and every day of the saint in the temple is painful and tormenting, but even so, no one thinks that such behavior is problematic.
For monks, they are vested interests, and it is not known whether the so-called saints can communicate with the gods, but the saints can really "communicate" with the monks, and they are naturally happy to enjoy it.
And for those believers, not to mention, they naturally believe unconditionally in the Hinduism they believe in, believing that this is what every saint should do.
In Hinduism, the understanding of sexuality is very open, and it is not difficult to talk about it in the slightest.
In this regard, Hinduism is in great contrast to most other religions, and most religions are silent about sexuality, and even abstinence.
But in Hinduism, there is no such thing as a non-existent form, and even the murals and sculptures of Hinduism are very explicit and open, and even some sculptures are pictures of men and women making peace, which is very indecent, but in their opinion, it is a normal performance.
And those monks even believe that sex is an irreplaceable way of spiritual practice, and as long as you recite the holy words in your mouth when you have sex with the holy woman, then your own cultivation will be greatly improved.
But behind such strange thoughts, it is the innocent girls who suffer, who left their parents at a young age, were married to the so-called gods, and repeatedly performed the obligation of intercourse with a bunch of monks in the temple, large and small.
Do their parents really not know what their daughters face every day? Do you really bear it?
●—≺ Why are parents so cruel ≻—●
"How can such a ruthless parent in the world be so cruel to their daughter?"
In fact, the parents of these saints also have a lot of helplessness, in India, the caste system is a pyramid of layers, and the saints naturally come from the bottom of the pyramid.
And for the inhabitants of these lowest levels, the Holy Maiden is even a good way out for a girl, a little better than staying in her own home.
After the founding of India, although it was fair and just on the surface, when dividing land, it was seriously affected by the caste class, and the lowest lowly poor accounted for 18% of the total population, but only 0.5% of the land was obtained, which led to many poor people not even getting land, so they could only go out to work as hired farmers.
Moreover, India has a high dowry tradition, and if a woman wants to get married, she must pay twice as much as the bride price, which also leads to many girls from poor families who cannot afford to marry at all.
From this point of view, by marrying these girls to the temple and entering the city, at the very least, the problem of food has been solved.
Indian women themselves have a very low social status, and they pay attention to "obeying their fathers when they are young, their husbands when they are adults, and their husbands obeying their sons when they die", so even if they are saints, they are not respected at all.
I thought that after becoming a saint, I would be able to eat and drink without worry, but maybe except for the saints themselves, no one can understand their suffering, not only psychologically, but also physically.
●—≺ The tragic end of the "Holy Maiden" ≻—●
Generally speaking, saints can be sent to the temple for selection at the age of fourteen or five, and these girls are not voluntary, but their fate does not change because of this.
Not every girl who comes to the reference selection can be selected as a saint, and the saint has one of the most important requirements, that is, to be beautiful.
There are even some girls who enter the temple from the age of 10 to be sent to the temple, first receive the baptism of the gods, and when they are old, they participate in the selection, and once they are selected, they begin countless dark days.
These saints are also promiscuous, so that their young bodies will have various diseases, and if the condition is serious, they will be abandoned.
The fate of those abandoned saints will be even more miserable, they entered the temple at a young age, and after being kicked out, they can't go back to their families, and they don't have any skills, so it's difficult to even find a livelihood.
Even if they are not evicted halfway through, and do not "retire" until they are old, once they leave the temple, survival is a problem, and many people are even reduced to "sex" workers.
Although with the slow development of India, it has also noticed the problem of saints, and even promulgated relevant laws to prohibit the selection of saints, but in reality, such a situation is still not immune.
According to Karnataka media, many new saints are added every year, and it is indeed difficult to change a custom that has become a tradition.
It is hoped that India will pay more attention to the situation of the holy women and rescue these girls as soon as possible to prevent more girls from suffering.
Resources:
Indian Virgen (Indian Tradition) - Baidu Encyclopedia