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~ What is real empowerment for a woman?
~ How to celebrate Rakshbandhan?
~ Understanding womanhood
~ Why are women so emotional?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Man exploits the earth to get crops.
00:10Man exploits everything that he can and that is not considered really immoral.
00:18In fact we reward those who are the most clever exploiters.
00:26If you can exploit the atom to get energy, you feel so happy, don't you?
00:36The atom in its own prakritic way was not eager to supply you energy but you took the
00:42atom and said I am in need of energy because I am ambitious, because I want more comfort
00:49so I will exploit this atom and get energy.
00:53And if you can break open the atom and get energy, you feel happy and you respect and
01:02reward those who do all these things.
01:09So if man gets recognition, respect and reward for exploiting, why would man spare the woman
01:18or even the woman spare the man?
01:25But the woman, the human female is biologically conditioned to have a nest just as the animal
01:38female is.
01:41But for the animal female, the nest is the end of the story, nothing happens beyond that.
01:47The nest is made, the young ones are there and then the rest of the prakritic story unfolds
01:53and that's it.
01:55In humans, there is society beyond biology.
02:02So if the woman is in the nest, that gives an opportunity to the man to exploit her even more.
02:16The male bird will not exploit the female bird when she cannot fly because she is taking
02:25care of the eggs or the young ones.
02:28The male bird would not exploit her then.
02:33But in humans, the male is likely to exploit the female when she is sitting in the nest
02:43to take care of the little baby.
02:49The woman will have to go beyond her biological self.
02:55The nest is the expression of the woman's biological self.
02:59As long as there is the nest, the woman would keep getting exploited.
03:04Unfortunately, the woman is still thinking that the nest is her asset, that the nest
03:12is her protective cocoon.
03:16The nest is not your friend, the nest is not your fortress, the nest is your cage.
03:26The man is just indifferent to the nest.
03:30The woman should be repugnant to the nest.
03:34Instead the woman is the one who actively seeks the nest.
03:38And when a human female seeks a nest, she is only seeking a prison.
03:48Man does not rebel against the nest.
03:50Man is just indifferent.
03:52If there is a nest, man says, ok, I will come.
03:54If there is no nest, man is ok even with a hotel room.
03:59Man is ok even with a hostel.
04:02Man is prepared sometimes even to sleep under the sky, beneath a tree.
04:07It is the woman who demands a nest.
04:11The woman will have to actively rebel against the nest.
04:17As long as there is the nest, the woman will remain chained.
04:22Ironically, the woman is the one who clamors for the nest.
04:29If there is a relationship, it would be the woman who would keep asking actively, darling,
04:37when are we getting married?
04:42And after the marriage, she will be the one who will keep pestering, when will we have
04:47a house of our own?
04:51The woman is her own worst enemy because she is very very biology driven.
05:01Man too is biology driven.
05:03But he abides by his intellect too.
05:08He abides by his intellect much more than the woman does.
05:13The woman is extremely biological.
05:19And that is beautiful in some sense.
05:22Because if you are not biological, then you are probably intellectual.
05:27And the intellect is a bigger curse than it is a boon.
05:38The woman is simpler, more innocent.
05:45I would dare to say the woman is simple and innocent just as animals are.
05:51Because woman just like animals is biology driven.
05:55She is emotional and her emotions do not really arise from understanding, not even from intellect.
06:05Her emotions arise from her body, from her biological conditioning, from her hormones.
06:13Look at the way she is attached to the baby.
06:16That does not involve any understanding.
06:18All that is pure biology, hormones.
06:24Man has no such chains.
06:30Man has no such compulsions.
06:35It is biology that confines and chains and imprisons the woman.
06:45As long as the woman keeps herself identified with her body, the nest and biology, there
06:51is no freedom for her.
06:55As long as the woman keeps thinking that her body is an asset, there is no freedom for
07:00her.
07:02As long as the woman keeps thinking that freedom is about flaunting her body, there is no freedom
07:07for her.
07:13The woman is the more oppressed of the two genders and therefore the revolution must
07:18arise from the woman.
07:26Woman by rebelling against the body will be the harbinger of a revolution that will liberate
07:36entire mankind, woman and man included, both.
07:44But if you will ask me between these two genders, which one is likely or which one rather must
07:52initiate the revolution, I would say the woman.
07:57Because the woman is the more oppressed of the two.
08:03Once the revolution begins, obviously man too will be liberated.
08:08But just as woman gives birth to the man, woman will also need to give birth to the
08:14freedom of man.
08:18Man will not be able to give birth to his own freedom.
08:23Freedom too will be born out of woman.
08:27That does not seem to be happening.
08:29Woman remains terribly body identified.
08:35And that which you call as modernity or liberation or even feminism is unfortunately even more
08:44body centric.
08:48It is just that now the body centricity is a little hidden.
09:00There is only one way to go beyond the body and that is the way of truth, the way of spirituality.
09:09All other ways go from the body to the body.
09:20So you can go from veiling to revealing.
09:26But you are just going from the body to the body.
09:29What were you veiling?
09:33The body.
09:34And now what are you revealing?
09:36The body.
09:38All this great liberation movement has only taken you from the body to the body.
09:45So there is no liberation at all.
09:47You are just being cheated and fooled.
09:55The only way the woman can be liberated is the spiritual way, the spiritual route.
10:02Now that sounds so old fashioned, doesn't it?
10:06If in fact you would love to say that religion is the curse of woman, that using religion
10:11the woman has been confined and oppressed and what not.
10:15But all that was false religion.
10:16Don't throw the baby out with bath water.
10:21If the woman can be saved, it is only through true spirituality.
10:27Because spirituality alone can take you out of your body identification.