The root cause of the exploitation of women || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 You exploit someone, you cannot remain at peace after the exploitation or during the

00:08 exploitation.

00:10 Man exploits woman, the woman too is bound to exploit the man.

00:15 It is not possible that one just plays the victim.

00:19 The victim is, because the victim has her own points of power.

00:26 She is at the home, she controls the home, she has the kids.

00:29 The kids are more affiliated to her.

00:32 So there are several ways in which she can, you know, turn a few handles.

00:37 It's not good for either of them.

00:41 Not good for either of them.

00:42 And what's the root cause?

00:43 The root cause is not man.

00:45 The root cause is all pervasive spiritual ignorance, which is turning the man into a

00:51 man and a woman into a woman, which is not allowing either of them to realize their conscious

00:59 nature.

01:00 The woman is not supposed to be a woman.

01:03 You have decked her up, turned her into a doll and now one can't even talk to her as

01:10 a person.

01:12 You have to talk to her as a woman.

01:13 And if you talk to her as a person, the terrible thing is the woman herself gets offended.

01:20 She'll say, you don't know how to talk to a woman, but I'm talking to a person.

01:25 Yeah, oh my God.

01:26 Yes.

01:27 I'm talking to a person.

01:28 She says, you don't know how to talk to a woman.

01:31 What is this?

01:32 If you are so steeped in your identity as a woman, how will you ever transcend yourself?

01:39 Same with men.

01:40 Obviously, you console a man.

01:43 After a while, the man starts feeling awkward.

01:46 Men are not supposed to be consoled.

01:47 So he'll say, okay, okay, fine, fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.

01:51 He's not fine, obviously, but he doesn't want to be seen as a weakling.

01:55 I'm fine.

01:56 So women should not proclaim, you know, chivalry is dead, expecting the man to open the, I

02:02 mean, why would you just, you're just contradicting yourself.

02:06 Obviously, the more women demand privileges for themselves, the more they are confining

02:13 themselves to their womanhood.

02:16 And if they are, they are, they are reinforcing their womanhood so much, then they are reinforcing

02:21 their own prison.

02:22 So all these things, you know, reservation in buses or in trains, I mean, come on, we

02:29 are, we are grownups.

02:31 Exactly.

02:33 You look at the numbers in athletics or something, I mean, let's look at the 100 meter sprint.

02:42 Men do it in what, what's the Olympic record, world record, 9.87 seconds or something.

02:47 How far behind are the women?

02:49 Not very far behind.

02:51 So are modern, well fed, well bred, mature women really so physically weak that they

03:00 require reserved seats in buses?

03:03 That should not happen.

03:05 And I'm not saying that as a man, I'm saying that as a, as a well-wisher of all human beings,

03:09 because if you're doing that, that's bad for the woman and that's bad for the man, that's

03:13 bad for everybody.

03:15 I understand the situations in public buses, I know how people behave and all those things.

03:24 We must have separate mechanisms to deal with cases of misbehavior or physical trespassing.

03:33 We must have separate ways, but these things, you know, how does it honor a woman to say

03:41 this seat is for, for the elderly, the handicapped and women?

03:48 How do women enjoy being bracketed with the elderly and the handicapped?

03:54 And I'm talking of sturdy, strong women.

04:00 I'm talking of, of the, of the modern girl.

04:03 Why should she partake in this nonsense?

04:07 At the same time, how do you then, Acharya ji, know that, okay, if I'm not expecting

04:13 my man, you don't need to open the door for me, or you don't need to, you know, I mean,

04:18 take up the seat for me, then how do I know that we are treating each other right?

04:23 Like, you know, who are you?

04:25 Before you know whether you are being treated rightly, you should know who you are, who

04:29 are you?

04:30 Are you a woman?

04:32 Then you would try to be treated rightly in a womanly way, in a womanly way.

04:40 But if you are that suffering old consciousness we have been talking of, then you would want

04:46 a man who elevates your consciousness.

04:49 Absolutely.

04:50 And the man would then seek a woman or a man or anybody even as a friend or as a teacher

04:55 or as a companion or whatever.

04:57 A barter system of.

04:59 Who helps raise and purify, refine his consciousness, you know, even if you are seeking a sexual

05:06 partner, you would have some idea of or some, you would give some weightage to the fact

05:15 that what is this person going to do to my mind, to my consciousness.

05:22 That value system, that your consciousness is far more valuable than the fact of your

05:32 body or biology, that's not been driven into us and that will not come naturally.

05:38 That has to come through education, education provided by either the family or the institution.

05:45 But they both are doing a dismal job of it.

05:47 But they both are doing a pathetic job, no doubt.

05:51 So, we are just hitting each other, killing each other, running amok, we are all being

05:59 violent towards each other.

06:01 It's not that the woman is being exploited only by the man, the woman is being exploited

06:05 also by the woman and the man is exploiting the child, the woman is exploiting the child

06:10 in some other way.

06:12 It's an entire network, an entire ecosystem in which all are exploiters because all are

06:17 ignorant.

06:20 And the root cause again is the absence of real education.

06:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]

06:27 [music]

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