Transcend Feminism || Acharya Prashant
Video Information: 02.04.2022
Context:
~ How has feminism evolved over time in its pursuit of women's liberation?
~ What are the key goals of feminist movements in achieving gender equality and liberation?
~ In what ways does feminism address intersectionality to ensure inclusive liberation for all women?
~ How does feminism challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes as part of its liberation agenda?
~ Can you highlight specific achievements or milestones in the history of feminist liberation movements?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How has feminism evolved over time in its pursuit of women's liberation?
~ What are the key goals of feminist movements in achieving gender equality and liberation?
~ In what ways does feminism address intersectionality to ensure inclusive liberation for all women?
~ How does feminism challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes as part of its liberation agenda?
~ Can you highlight specific achievements or milestones in the history of feminist liberation movements?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 Ultimately, when you say feminism, tell me simply, very simply, what do you want?
00:09 You want the person's welfare, right?
00:14 That's the objective.
00:15 That's the objective.
00:16 And her welfare lies in her liberation from body identification.
00:26 Do consider that all the bondages that come to her, entrap her, come via her own body.
00:40 She is entrapped because she is the woman.
00:46 Stop being the woman.
00:47 No more traps.
00:48 Are you getting it?
00:54 I'm getting that conceptually, but how is that practically applicable?
01:02 The woman is trapped by the man because as a woman, she yearns for safety and security.
01:13 As a woman, she wants a nest and eggs and kids.
01:17 Stop wanting all those things.
01:18 How will a man trap you now?
01:21 How will anybody enslave you now?
01:24 And you want those things without knowing that those wants are hardly yours.
01:31 Those are the wants arising from the female body, your cells, your DNA, your hormones.
01:43 They are the ones that provoke those wants, rather invoke those wants.
01:53 And the more you keep identifying with your physical self, the more you will adopt those
02:02 wants as your own.
02:04 Whereas those are the wants of the body.
02:09 The moment you adopt those desires, somebody will present himself as a candidate to fulfill
02:18 those desires.
02:20 And the one who presents himself to fulfill those desires is carrying a hidden handcuff.
02:31 You will not even realize when you have been handcuffed.
02:42 Bondages are not generally forcefully imposed on anybody.
02:53 Bondages are so prevalent because bondages are mostly consensual.
03:00 The woman herself consents to bondage.
03:10 And she consents to bondage because she takes herself to be a woman.
03:14 Now many people will be finding it quite absurd.
03:18 They'll say, but she is a woman, is she not?
03:22 Continue taking yourself as a woman.
03:24 And then you will only get what mother prakriti has in store for you.
03:29 And mother prakriti does not have empowerment or liberation in store for you.
03:37 She has in store for you a future circumscribed by the nest and confined to the eggs.
03:47 Hardly alluring, hardly glorious.
03:53 So there's these words, they say embrace womanhood.
04:00 So that or embrace motherhood.
04:03 Extremely toxic.
04:05 Extremely toxic.
04:06 That's anti-feminism.
04:07 That's anti-liberation.
04:08 That's anti-liberation.
04:09 If feminism is true, it would seek to liberate the woman and in that liberation lies her
04:17 empowerment.
04:18 So if you talk of embracing your feminine traits and such things, that's not doing any
04:27 good to you.
04:29 You have to transcend them.
04:31 You have to transcend them.
04:33 You have to let them be.
04:35 You don't have to empower them, they are already quite powerful.
04:38 You don't have to embrace them, they are already quite sticky.
04:43 What do you mean by embracing your own skin?
04:48 It's already there.
04:49 You have to transcend it.
04:54 That doesn't mean that you have to peel out your skin.
04:59 That merely means that you have to dis-identify.
05:03 Not give it as much importance, to make it your own life.
05:09 If you will continue to be a woman and want your due rights as a woman, maybe you will
05:18 get something.
05:19 But those would be crumbs, peanuts, not worth much.
05:25 [Music]