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According to karma sastra, there are three veds or principles: stree-ved, the female principle, purushved, the male principle and napunsak-ved or the neuter principle. In every man and woman all three principles are found. Man is a male and woman is emale. How then can all the three genders exist in he two? This is the real question. That a man is male is the manifested mode. In the unmanifested modes ne is both a female and a neuter gender. No man is fully a man. No woman is fully only a woman. Every man is a woman as well as belonging to the neuter gender. Every woman is a man as well as belonging to the neuter gender. The neuter gender is male as well as female. If the manifested gender is male then he is a man. If the manifested principle is female then she is a woman. And yet in spite of the manifested traits how many men are feminine and how many women are masculine!
A queen was sitting in her garden. A parrot's droppings fell on her. She became angry. She stomped into the palace and went to bed in a fit of anger. The king came. Seeing the queen angry he enquired the reason. Getting to the bottom of it all she told her husband, “Either you get all the parrots
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