2000-10-08 e2: about Shri, Lalita, Nabhi (Navaratri Puja, Cabella Ligure, Italy)

...Nowadays, of course, there’s a fashion that women, especially in America, I have seen, they want to wear just straps over their frocks, whatever you may call it. Just straps, and both the chakras are left open. They’re very important chakras, should not even wear sleeveless, they should be always covered. All other chakras we cover, except for Agnya, which we also cover with a kumkum. By that, how many diseases can come? You can get sinus, start from sinus, you can get eye trouble, you can get paralysis of both the hands. You can get also Parkinson’s. All sorts of diseases can come, because these are two very important chakras: one is the Shri chakra, which is on the right side and another is the Lalita chakra on the left-hand side. You should never, never expose these chakras, also the knees. But it is a fashion nowadays to show the knees. I don’t know, I can’t understand the logic behind it. What is in the knees? Why people want to see the knees of people? I mean, I just don’t understand. This is, there’s no logic. It’s senseless. At first, I never understood it, and now I have understood that they want to attract men. If men are attracted by your knees, what sort of men they must be? [laughter] I don’t understand such men, also. [more laughter] Men will be fully dressed while women will expose their, both the Nabhis and both the chakras, which are so important...