--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <ltm457@> wrote: > > > > I once read on I think that site Transnet that one guy former MIU > > student became a transvestite. I was surprised. > > If you read Dr Robert Svoboda's english language version of the > Shani Mahatmya in the Mercury chapter there is an account of a > Vedic Raja who was constantly changing his / her gender. It states > the subjects weren't totally comfortable with it though.
>From Wikipedia, "Homosexuality and Hinduism": Mahabharata In the Mahabharata, the hero Arjuna takes a "vow of eunuchism" to live as the third sex for a year: "O lord of the Earth, I will declare myself as one of the neuter sex. O monarch, it is, indeed difficult to hide the marks of the bowstring on my arms. I will, however, cover both my cicatrized arms with bangles. Wearing brilliant rings on my ears and conch-bangles on my wrists and causing a braid to hang down from my head, I shall, O king, appear as one of the third sex, Vrihannala by name."[16] Another important character, Sikhandi, is born female, but raised as a boy. Sihkandi's father, King Drupada, had begged the god Mahadeva to give him a son, to which Mahadeva replied: "Thou shalt have a child who will be a female and male. Desist, O king, it will not be otherwise." When Sikhandi comes of age and marries, Sikhandi's wife "soon came to know that [Sikhandi] was a women like herself." Fleeing from the unnamed wife's enraged father, Sikhandi encounters a male Yaksha (nature spirit) in the forest, and they agree to swap sexes. Now in a male body, Sikhandi proves to his father-in-law that he is truly male, after the latter sends "a number of young ladies of great beauty" to Sikhandi to test him. They report back that he is "a powerful person of the masculine sex," and Sikhandi becomes a skilled and famous warrior, playing a pivotal role in the war.[17] Padma Purana The hero Arjuna also changes sex in a story from the Padma Purana, becoming a woman called Arjuni and desiring the male god Krishna. Arjuni is "overcome with desire" for Krishna "His every limb seemed to be that of the god of love, satiated with the pleasure of rasa." Seeing that Arjuni was aroused, "the all-knowing Hrishikesa [Krishna] took her hand and indulged in all the sports in the forest. The Great Lord sported with her secretly, at will. Then putting His arm on her shoulder, and coming to Sharada, He said: `Quickly bathe this slender, gently smiling lady, who is exhausted with play, in the western lake.'" Upon entering the water, Arjuni is transformed back into Arjuna. Then, "Krishna, seeing that Arjuna was depressed and heartbroken, touched him with His magic hand, so that he became aware of his nature", saying, "O Arjuna, you will curse Me if you talk to anyone about the secret which you wanted to know and have experienced."[18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Hinduism To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
