If You Haven't Come Across This ...

If you haven't come across this yet, you may. Recently an individual trying to inappropriately poke fun at a Sikh woman who has kept all of her hair, including facial hair, keeping in line with her religious beliefs that all of her body is sacred as a divine gift from God, posted her picture on Reddit. The reaction by others, and in particular the woman who was the subject of his "attempted humor," blew me away by the beauty, humility, compassion and inner depth of her response...

Here's a preview: "Just as a child doesn't reject the gift of his/her parents, Sikhs do not reject the body that has been given to us. By crying 'mine, mine' and changing this body-tool, we are essentially living in ego and creating a seperateness between ourselves and the divinity within us. By transcending societal views of beauty, I believe that I can focus more on my actions. My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it? When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. So, to me, my face isn't important but the smile and the happiness that lie behind the face are. :-)" 

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