Hypocrisy Part 2

The case of Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman (left) is an Indian film actress, now 57 years old, who seduced an entire generation of Indians, with a career spanning well over a decade.

She was also Miss Asia-Pacific in the year 1970, is blessed with a very high IQ, and studied fashion and journalism at Los Angeles. I have seen many of her interviews and movies, and she has a fantastic personality. She is a woman to be admired, and was greatly admired by hundreds of millions of Indians for over a decade. More or less a cult following.

Her rough treatment by the world is human nature manifesting, which looks for excuses to haul others down.

She overdid her seductive roles by Indian standards, and they can't handle it.

She does not act in movies anymore, has not done so in a long time, apart from two tiny appearances in the last 15 years.

The amazing thing is that the Indian masses still enjoy her old movies, but criticize her anyway for being a sexually expressive woman.

Zeenat Aman's personal life has been tragic too. Lost her father when she was 13, gave up everything for a TV actor she fell in love with, when she was in her early 30s (at the peak of her career). The marriage was unsuccessful.

The many TV interviews I have seen of her, she comes across as a remarkably decent, intelligent, strong, dignified woman who has led a very difficult life and carries her pain very gracefully. A graceful lady who seems to be as beautiful on the inside, as she is on the outside.

Further Reading: I've Forgiven Men Who Ill Treated Me

Welcome to the NOW

I am convinced life is divine...because I see beauty as an attribute that comes from the deepest level of life. The level that is beyond matter.

Beauty cannot be of biological origin. A matrix of atoms, protons and electrochemical impulses cannot be 'beautiful', at least not in the sexual sense.

Ones who look at sexuality only in terms of biology and biochemical, electrical responses are subconsciously reducing life to a mechanical, electro-chemical reality.

Pause and look carefully at the following photos.

What *feeling* do they generate in you?

"Thoughts and feelings" that only generate references to anatomy do not qualify as real feelings.

Thoughts that try to apply some kind of 'facial symmetry thumbrule/formula/database' to judge these faces as beautiful or ugly --- such thoughts do not know what beauty is. Or its opposite, for that matter.

Once again...do they look like photos of a bunch of proportionate or disproportionate facial anatomy?

Or is there anything 'whole' emanating, exuding, flowing out towards you?

Do you see an "emanation of the indwelling life" like Bryant would ask?

If you can see this radiance, this something that is exuding...welcome to the NOW!

Photos: Brooke Shields, Preity Zinta & Gillian Anderson.

Hypocrisy

Update: Somebody just commented anonymously, that 'this blog is not about spirituality'. Well...all I can say to that person is *kiss my @$$*.

Moving on---

I received some hostile comments on my last post (Psychosis or Transcendence) recently, comments that have been deleted. This post is inspired by these comments.

Two people had problems focusing on the text of the post, and got fixated on the accompanying image which has mild nudity(The Cosmic Dancer). This happened although the image fits perfectly with the text of the post.

Many people---their unevolved emotional worlds cannot see the difference between art and porn. They have way too many sexual hangups.

The sexual hangup is a cross cultural phenomenon, it exists in every culture, at every socio-economic level. You will find this hangup in the ghettos of an orthodox Indian town, you will find this hangup in the uppermost echelons of New Delhi. You will find this hangup in the royal circles of London, you will find this hangup in the snobbish circles of New York. You name a place, and this hangup will be there.

Please note that I am not talking about movie stars, playboy models and the like. They are a different breed altogether although they come from all kinds of backgrounds and socio-economic levels. They get used to things like nudity, although even they are not totally free of hangups. I know this for sure, having studied many pornstars and movie actresses, through their interviews. Their hangups are less intense, but are very much there.

The 'sexually liberated person' is VERY VERY rare. The ones who come across as sexually liberated are (most probably) pretending. I have seen some people who are actually liberated, but it is very rare.

M. Scott Peck, reknowned psychiatrist, who's theories are taught at many good universities all over the world, writes in his book, 'The Road Less Travelled'....

[Paraphrased]: "Sex is a problem for Jane. Sex is a problem for John. Sex is a problem for the husband, sex is a problem for the wife. Sex is a problem for everyone, including Scott Peck."

(I don't have the book with me right now, hence the paraphrase.)

Here are some examples of Indian hypocrisy. Indians pray to a naked Kali (an Indian goddess who is naked most of the time!) in temples, but these people will drive you crazy with their sexual orthodoxy and sexual hypocrisy. They cannot handle the strong emotions generated by sexual issues/nudity and create havoc, destroy when stimulated.

For example--recently, Hindu fundamentalists went on a rampage in an Indian town named Lucknow...because they were against Indian girls wearing jeans & trousers in public.

Although secretly the same men love seeing women in tight clothes, jeans etc...hypocrites.

The same problem exists everywhere. For example, a girl I know was telling me that girls in her community, somewhere in the United States of America, are not allowed to wear jeans or tight clothes...now...I highly doubt that men in that american community do not like seeing women in tight clothes! She was also telling me that women in her community are not allowed to watch 'HBO' because it has 'dirty Hollywood movies'.

These are not examples of 'decent people imposing bans on indecent people', this is ALL nonsense, all hypocrisy.

Somebody might say that people belonging to upper socio-economic echelons are in general casual and cool about sexual issues and nudity. This is incorrect. They pretend to be casual and cool. They are NOT casual and cool, on the inside!

The playboy model or the movie actress who takes her clothes off on camera is NOT sexually liberated. She is just "BOLD".

Pornstars are also NOT liberated, sexually! Just very very "BOLD"!

The surprising thing is that my other post with nudity--the one on 'Sadomasochism, Nurture and Love' that I posted 15 days back--did not attract bizarre comments--although it carried no warnings--- though I have changed that now, it is hidden like the cosmic dancer in 'Psychosis or Transcendence' is hidden.

My ArtWork - Dzydzilelya Ania

Dzydzilelya is the Polish Goddess of love, marriage, sexuality and fertility...

Made using Photoshop CS2 9.0.