India, Feb. 27 -- By Sadhguru - Founder, Isha Foundation

Indian spirituality has always been a rich mixture of men and women reaching the heights of their consciousness. A woman is as capable as a man when it comes to inner nature. It is only the peel, the body, which you call as a man or a woman. What is within is the same. The peel is not going to decide what one's spiritual capabilities are. Right from Vedic times, there have been many women who have reached the very heights of their consciousness.

In ancient times, women also wore the sacred thread, because without it, they could not read the scriptures. Like a man, she could live within the marriage for ten to twenty years and when she had the urge to become spiritual, she could re...