Sister, the nest is not an asset || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Video Information: Shabdyog session, 22.07.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
~ How to bring woman's revolution?
~ How to bring about a Total Women's revolution?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to bring woman's revolution?
~ How to bring about a Total Women's revolution?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 "Man exploits the earth to get minerals.
00:06 Man exploits the earth to get crops.
00:12 Man exploits everything that he can and that is not considered really immoral.
00:21 In fact, we reward those who are the most clever exploiters.
00:29 If you can exploit the atom to get energy, you feel so happy, don't you?
00:38 The atom in its own prakritic way was not eager to supply you energy but you took the
00:44 atom and said I am in need of energy because I am ambitious, because I want more comfort
00:52 so I will exploit this atom and get energy.
00:56 And if you can break open the atom and get energy, you feel happy and you respect and
01:05 reward those who do all these things.
01:11 So if man gets recognition, respect and reward for exploiting, why would man spare the woman
01:20 or even the woman spare the man?
01:27 But the woman, the human female is biologically conditioned to have a nest just as the animal
01:40 female is.
01:43 But for the animal female, the nest is the end of the story.
01:48 Everything happens beyond that.
01:49 The nest is made, the young ones are there and then the rest of the prakritic story unfolds
01:55 and that's it.
01:57 In humans, there is society beyond biology.
02:05 So if the woman is in the nest, that gives an opportunity to the man to exploit her even more.
02:18 The male bird will not exploit the female bird when she cannot fly because she is taking
02:27 care of the eggs or the young ones.
02:30 The male bird would not exploit her then.
02:36 But in humans, the male is likely to exploit the female when she is sitting in the nest
02:46 to take care of the little baby.
02:51 The woman will have to go beyond her biological self.
02:57 The nest is the expression of the woman's biological self.
03:01 As long as there is the nest, the woman would keep getting exploited.
03:07 Unfortunately, the woman is still thinking that the nest is her asset, that the nest
03:14 is her protective cocoon.
03:18 The nest is not your friend.
03:20 The nest is not your fortress.
03:23 The nest is your cage.
03:28 The man is just indifferent to the nest.
03:32 The woman should be repugnant to the nest.
03:36 Instead the woman is the one who actively seeks the nest.
03:40 And when a human female seeks a nest, she is only seeking a prison.
03:50 Man does not rebel against the nest.
03:53 Man is just indifferent.
03:54 If there is a nest, man says, "Ok, I'll come".
03:57 If there is no nest, man is ok even with a hotel room.
04:01 Man is ok even with a hostel.
04:04 Man is prepared sometimes even to sleep under the sky, beneath a tree.
04:09 It is the woman who demands a nest.
04:13 The woman will have to actively rebel against the nest.
04:19 As long as there is the nest, the woman will remain chained.
04:25 Ironically, the woman is the one who clamors for the nest.
04:31 If there is a relationship, it would be the woman who would keep asking actively, "Darling,
04:39 when are we getting married?"
04:44 And after the marriage, she will be the one who will keep pestering.
04:47 "When will we have a house of our own?"
04:53 The woman is her own worst enemy because she is very very biology driven.
05:03 Man too is biology driven, but he abides by his intellect too.
05:10 He abides by his intellect much more than the woman does.
05:16 The woman is extremely biological.
05:22 And that is beautiful in some sense because if you are not biological, then you are probably
05:28 intellectual and the intellect is a bigger curse than it is a boon.
05:41 The woman is simpler, more innocent.
05:47 I would dare to say the woman is simple and innocent just as animals are.
05:53 Because woman just like animals is biology driven.
05:57 She is emotional and her emotions do not really arise from understanding, not even from intellect.
06:07 Her emotions arise from her body, from her biological conditioning, from her hormones.
06:15 Look at the way she is attached to the baby.
06:18 That does not involve any understanding.
06:20 All that is pure biology, hormones.
06:26 Man has no such chains.
06:33 Man has no such compulsions.
06:37 It is biology that confines and chains and imprisons the woman.
06:48 As long as the woman keeps herself identified with her body, the nest and biology, there
06:53 is no freedom for her.
06:57 As long as the woman keeps thinking that her body is an asset, there is no freedom for
07:02 her.
07:04 As long as the woman keeps thinking that freedom is about flaunting her body, there is no freedom
07:09 for her.
07:15 The woman is the more oppressed of the two genders and therefore the revolution must
07:20 arise from the woman.
07:28 Woman by rebelling against the body will be the harbinger of a revolution that will liberate
07:39 entire mankind, woman and man included, both.
07:46 But if you will ask me between these two genders, which one is likely or which one rather must
07:54 initiate the revolution, I would say the woman.
07:59 Because the woman is the more oppressed of the two.
08:05 Once the revolution begins, obviously man too will be liberated.
08:10 But just as woman gives birth to the man, woman will also need to give birth to the
08:16 freedom of man.
08:20 Man will not be able to give birth to his own freedom.
08:25 Freedom too will be born out of woman.
08:29 That does not seem to be happening.
08:31 Woman remains terribly body identified and that which you call as modernity or liberation
08:42 or even feminism is unfortunately even more body centric.
08:51 It's just that now the body centricity is a little hidden.
09:02 There is only one way to go beyond the body and that is the way of truth, the way of spirituality.
09:12 All other ways go from the body to the body.
09:22 So you can go from veiling to revealing.
09:28 But you are just going from the body to the body.
09:32 What were you veiling?
09:35 The body.
09:36 And now what are you revealing?
09:38 The body.
09:40 All this great liberation movement has only taken you from the body to the body.
09:47 So there is no liberation at all.
09:49 You are just being cheated and fooled.
09:57 The only way the woman can be liberated is the spiritual way, the spiritual route.
10:05 Now that sounds so old fashioned, doesn't it?
10:08 In fact you would love to say that religion is the curse of woman, that using religion
10:13 the woman has been confined and oppressed and what not.
10:17 But all that was false religion.
10:18 Don't throw the baby out with bath water.
10:23 If the woman can be saved, it is only through true spirituality.
10:29 Because spirituality alone can take you out of your body identification.
10:34 [Music]