>The Red Dot

>As one travels further into the East, one faces a complex melting pot of exotic cultures, mysticism and fashions entwined with tradition and religious belief.

Take India for example. We have seen Hindu women who sport a red dot on their forehead. Unless we have read about its significance or heard it explained, that red dot would conjure nothing more than it being a Hindu woman’s fashion. And fashion it is not.

Traditionally, the red bindi (or sindhur) was worn only by the married Hindu women, but now it has become a part of women’s fashion. Traditionally, the red dot is made up of bovine blood and dirt (earth), however, even this has changed in that many women wear a jewel (authentic gemstone or otherwise).

and there is more explanations that follow,

Traditionally, a married Hindu women wears a red dot on her forehead. She can’t wear it after the death of her husband.

A Hindu woman sports a dot at the lower part of her fore head in the mid line just above the root of her nose.
The position of the dot corresponds to the third eye or sixth sense.
Anatomically it corresponds to the insertions of muscles to the root of the nose.
It is also the position of the sixth chakra.

The third eye or the sixth sense:

The point above the root of the nose is called as third eye or sixth sense because attention to this point enables us to perceive distant things, even before our eyes, nose or ears can perceive. The Sixth sense works on logic. It detects objects based on what is common to the detections of eyes, nose and ears. Such perception is also known as instinct.

Sixth sense, logic and dharma:

1. Using the red dot as reference point makes a woman logical. Logic unites all of her activities into a single giant activity called life. Because of this a woman using logic can’t deviate from the path of dharma. Any misbehavior would adversely and permanently affect all the activities of her life.
In contrast, a woman using reasoning can deviate from the path of dharma because reasoning would divide her life into infinite independent compartments. Any misbehavior would affect a small part of her life, that too temporarily.
2. A women uses logic under ideal conditions only. This means that when she wears a red dot she is accepting that her life with her husband is ideal.
3. By sporting a red dot after marriage a woman acquires a status, determined by the average skill of her husband. She can’t sport it before her marriage because she has to acquire the status of her husband, however high or low it may be.
4. After the death of her husband a Hindu woman’s life would no more be ideal. It is just survival. Her life, then onwards, should be based on reasoning and thus she can’t wear the red dot.

The red color:

A woman sporting a red dot may look at other men as dictated by dharma. However, a man looking at her may not look at her with an intention dictated by dharma.
A man can use one of the seven basic forces to look at her.
They are,
1. Dreaming force
2. Illusory force
3. Voluntary force
4. Semi voluntary force
5. Involuntary force
6. Status altering force
7. Compulsive force.

Red color is symbolic of the compulsive force. When a man uses this force he can’t think.
Use of any other force by a man would enable him to bide his time to seduce her.

The circle:

Circle symbolizes logic because all points on it are equidistant from its center. In the same way logic give equal importance to all activities.

Thus, the red circular dot on the fore head of the woman forces her and the men around her to behave in a way dictated by dharma.

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