Women Hindu Priests

There is not and there should not be any intermediary between God and devotee. Everyone can join the esoteric Priesthood.

On #Diwali, a brahmacharini at Amma's Amritapuri Ashram performs a Ganapati Homa for World Peace and Happiness. Amma has long championed the rights of women to perform Vedic rituals: "When we put in effort to remove outdated social and religious concepts that suppress women, we will often find support. Until recently, women in India were not allowed to worship in the inner sanctum of temples; nor could they consecrate a temple or perform Vedic rituals. Women didn’t even have the freedom to chant Vedic mantras. But our ashram is encouraging and appointing women to do these things, and I myself perform the consecration ceremony in all the temples we construct. In the beginning, many protested against this. To those who questioned us, I explained that we are worshipping a God who is beyond all differences, who does not differentiate between male and female. In the end, the majority of people supported us. In fact, those prohibitions against women were never actually a part of the Hindu tradition. They were in all likelihood invented later by men in order to exploit and oppress women." Read more in Amma's article in Thrive Global: https://journal.thriveglobal.com/the-world-needs-motherhood-e9b174acb82c
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