Effect of woman upon man || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Ana from Hungary and she is quoting from Asadivar, Guru Granth Sahib.

00:18From woman, man is born.

00:22Within woman, man is conceived.

00:24To woman, he is engaged and married.

00:29Woman becomes his friend.

00:30Through woman, the future generations come.

00:35When his woman dies, he seeks another woman.

00:38To woman, he is bound.

00:41So why call her bad?

00:43From her, kings are born.

00:45From woman, woman is born.

00:47Without woman, there would be no one at all.

00:50O Nanak, only the true Lord is without a woman.

00:57Acharya ji, who is calling the woman bad in the first place?

01:03I didn't get why the question.

01:07So why call her bad was posed at all.

01:09Thank you for the guidance.

01:10With gratitude, Ana from Hungary.

01:13There are two classes of people who call the woman as bad, Ana.

01:21On one hand are the male supremacists, the misogynists, who have this notion that one

01:43gender is superior than the other.

01:53And then there are the spiritualists, who talk not of the physical woman, but Prakriti.

02:11And they say Prakriti or Maya or Avidya are the root cause of man's bondage.

02:26So Baba Nanak is addressing both these people.

02:41He is saying that you who talk ill of the woman are not at all separate from the woman.

02:57You come out of the flesh of the woman and all your life you remain attached to the woman

03:06in many ways.

03:10Even when you say that you are a God seeker or truth lover, who are you without the woman?

03:17Would you exist to love the truth or seek God?

03:24And this operates at both levels, each of his utterances operates at both the levels.

03:31At the level of those who despise the physical woman and at the level of those who despise

03:38Prakriti.

03:40So he is addressing both the commoner, who believes in male supremacy, the MCP as you

03:53know him and the Pandit, the spiritualist who keeps on cursing Prakriti.

04:14Nanak Saheb is talking to both of them and each of his sentences is addressed to both

04:21of them and therefore has two meanings.

04:26To the commoner he is saying, aren't you a big hypocrite that you keep cursing the woman?

04:36If the woman goes away from your life, you would not take two months to bring another

04:42woman into your life, such is your dependence on the woman.

04:50You keep lording over her and Ana remember that when we say that Baba Nanak is addressing

04:59the commoner, do not forget the context.

05:04He is talking to the peasants of Punjab.

05:10He is talking to the people of Punjab as they were 700 years back.

05:19That's the context.

05:24So he is saying, if the woman goes away for a while, then it is you who become desperate for her.

05:43She may or may not miss you so much, but what is certain is that you start longing

05:54for her, pining for her rather.

06:06So what is this double speak?

06:13On one hand you cannot live without her, on the other hand, look at your actions.

06:22The woman does not need four husbands, but the husband often needs four wives.

06:29So with gender is more in need of the other.

06:34The woman is able to do with a quarter of a husband, but the man is wanting four wives.

06:48So the man needs the woman 16 times more.

06:54Is it not so?

06:58And still you act as if the woman is a curse on you.

07:05He's just exposing the double standards of the common male.

07:20From woman man is born, within woman man is conceived, to woman he is engaged and married.

07:29Look at her preponderance, look at her sheer importance.

07:35Who are you without her?

07:37In fact, you are not even a little without her, without her you are just not.

07:48And he's addressing the common man.

07:50So he's addressing the common man whose body identified, where does the body come from?

07:55The woman.

07:58Woman becomes his friend, through woman the future generations come.

08:01Is that not what you want?

08:03You want a son, from where would the son come?

08:05Even the son has to come from the woman.

08:10You might keep with the entire world the entire day, but when you retire to your home, in

08:17the night, it is to the woman that you talk and share.

08:26When his woman dies, he seeks another woman.

08:30That is what has been happening in India in general, probably the entire world.

08:39If the man dies, the woman may or may not feel a deep urge to remarry and get another

08:47partner.

08:49But experience has been that man more definitely does get another partner when the woman dies.

08:59And this demonstrates who needs the other the more.

09:11From her kings are born.

09:14Even the greatest one who achieved liberation came from her, didn't he?

09:21The child starts off just as a body, be it Christ or Krishna, Ram or Buddha, Ashtavakra

09:32or Shankaracharya, all started off as just babies.

09:38And babies are babies, they all puke and cry, don't they?

09:49And they all get measles.

09:55Babies are babies.

09:56From where did that baby come?

10:00Who nursed that baby?

10:02The woman.

10:10From woman, woman is born.

10:21Utter genius of the sage.

10:27There is nobody who is not attached to Prakriti.

10:36It says that sometimes you may like one kind of Prakriti and not another kind.

10:40But that aspect of Prakriti that you like and are attached to, that too comes from mother

10:48Prakriti, which means Prakriti in its wholeness has to be accepted and even respected.

11:06Without woman there would be no one at all.

11:08Oh Nanak, only the true Lord is without a woman.

11:18There is Prakriti, there is Purush and there is Parmatma.

11:25To all who are body identified, Prakriti is the companion.

11:34Who is body identified?

11:36The Purush.

11:37What is the body?

11:38Prakriti.

11:39I am the body when you say so, then I is the Purush, body is the Prakriti and when you

11:48give up the body identification, then only the one great I remains and that is Parmatma.

11:58But that is only for those who have given up body identification.

12:04As long as you live as the body, you have no right to curse the body, the woman or Prakriti.

12:17If you claim to be beyond woman, then ask yourself, are you one with Parmatma?

12:22Oh Nanak, only the true Lord is without a woman.

12:27Mind you, only the true Lord.

12:30Are you the true Lord?

12:31Are you one with the true Lord?

12:34If you are not one with the true Lord, why do you speak ill of women?

12:41That would be hypocrisy.

12:44On one hand you are so dependent on women, on the other hand you curse them or speak

12:50ill of them, which also means that the more you are attached to women, the more will be

13:02your distance from the true Lord.

13:05At the same time, the one who goes to the true Lord cannot come without a woman.

13:11So it's complex.

13:15Without woman, there is no journey to truth and on the journey to truth, you create woman

13:24as an obstacle.

13:30Who would journey to the truth if there were no women?

13:35And women here stands at two levels, the physical woman and Prakriti in general.

13:44Who would journey to the truth?

13:48Can there be Purush without Prakriti?

13:50No, they are parts of the same duality.

13:58Without Prakriti, there would be no Purush to long for Parmatma.

14:09At the same time, if the Purush gets lost in Prakriti, he never meets Parmatma.

14:16But if you get lost in Prakriti, is it Prakriti's fault?

14:22Did she tell you to get drunk and rape her?

14:36She exists with you.

14:43She doesn't exist to become an obstacle for you.

14:48If you are, then she is.

14:50Now how do you denounce her?

14:59And if you find her becoming an obstacle, then what right do you have to condemn her?

15:04Condemn yourself instead.

15:05You are not careful enough in your relationship with her.

15:15She is not merely a necessity.

15:24She is your physical progenitor.

15:29She is where you physically come from.

15:34She is the physicality, Prakriti.

15:42And without your physicality, who are you to seek liberation?

15:46All this bliss that you talk of in the spiritual process, to whom would it come without your

15:52physical self?

15:58What bliss have you experienced sans your physical self?

16:01And if your physical self is needed, even to be liberated, then shouldn't you rather

16:08thank Prakriti for liberation?

16:24Only somebody who is very honest about liberation can utter these words.

16:33Others are neither liberated and not even sincere about being liberated.

16:48So they blame their bondage upon Prakriti rather than themselves.

16:57They would say, oh, what to do?

16:59My body is like this.

17:01Oh, what to do?

17:02I am genetically not equipped to be liberated.

17:06The woman is being blamed.

17:07Woman is the body.

17:09Woman is the Prakriti.

17:10Oh, what to do?

17:12I am a lady.

17:16So I get a little carried away by hormonal emotionality.

17:25That's the kind of arguments that insincere people come up with.

17:32Whenever you find somebody blaming his or her body or conditioning for his various shortcomings

17:47and bondages, see that Prakriti is being blamed and if Prakriti is being blamed, then you

17:54must remember these words of Guru Sahab again and again, do not blame her.

18:04She is your necessary companion.

18:10She is your necessary companion.

18:14Now if you turn her into an enemy, that is your decision.

18:22Your journey to liberation would necessarily be along with her.

18:34Now it depends on you how you use her in your journey to the truth.

18:41Can you journey to the truth bodilessly?

18:44So your journey to the truth would necessarily be along with her.

18:47It depends on you how you use her.

18:51She can be a very good friend or she can be the biggest obstacle you can get.

18:57In either case, you are responsible.

19:13That is the reason why in the scriptures Prakriti is never addressed.

19:18She's never taught anything.

19:20The Purush is taught.

19:23Have you seen that?

19:25Because Prakriti is anyway not doing anything.

19:27She is just a companion.

19:29The Purush does what he does.

19:31So the responsibility lies squarely on Purush.

19:35If you are nice with her, she will be your best friend.

19:40And if you find her going crazy with you, ask yourself, what is it that you did to make

19:46her crazy?

19:55I am not addressing merely the physical males.

19:59I am also addressing the physical females.

20:06If you find yourself going crazy, which means your hormonal and impulses and thoughts and

20:16feelings, they are all just going wild and astray, then ask yourself, what did I do to

20:25get my thoughts and emotions and hormones into such a squalor?

20:36They do not do anything on your own.

20:38Have I not been teaching this since long?

20:41When something arises, it depends on you whether you support it or ignore it.

20:46Thought might arise, feelings might arise, but why do you start supporting them?

20:49Why do you start energizing them?

20:57So you must see why the Purush is being constantly addressed.

21:02Because if things go wrong, the fault lies squarely with the Purush, never with Prakriti.

21:11She is what she is.

21:16She is the universe.

21:17She is the material.

21:19She is all that exists.

21:22You are the one who does something with all that exists.

21:28You are the one who establishes a particular kind of relationship with the universe.

21:33So you have to answer why did things go wrong?

21:38The universe is passive in itself.

21:40Prakriti too is passive.

21:46In the entire game, the woman remains passive.

21:51So if the activity goes wrong, the question would certainly be asked to the actor, not

22:00to the one who is passive.

22:05You were talking about Purush, Prakriti and Paramatma.

22:10So the purpose of Purush is to be over Prakriti and merge into Paramatma or to know Paramatma,

22:21as much I could understand.

22:26Purush likes Prakriti and loves Paramatma.

22:32But he thinks liking is loving.

22:34So he says I love you to Prakriti.

22:38So Acharyaji, the other animals, the lower animals, the lower animals, means lower to

22:48humans, humans as they do not have the consciousness to be self-aware and to have a concept of

23:02self and an individual, they do not have this consciousness.

23:07So the Prakriti, if we understand evolution, the Prakriti itself has given the leverage

23:13to humans to be self-aware and to be conscious and to see Prakriti different, means Prakriti

23:26has given the leverage to humans to see itself.

23:30The saints would say Prakriti has given birth to Purush in her effort to reach Paramatma.

23:37Prakriti wants to reach Paramatma through Purush, but Purush is so mad that he thinks

23:42that Prakriti is an obstacle.

23:49It's like mother giving birth to the baby and the baby is trying to gain liberation

23:55and in his effort to gain liberation, he thinks that the mother is an obstacle.

24:03Why the mother doesn't know her?

24:06Because the mother herself is a baby.

24:10Mother too is both the son and the mother, right?

24:16Prakriti and Purush exist within both the male and the female.

24:23So the mother is on the same path as the son.

24:28But as the saints have known the Paramatma, then Prakriti has known the Paramatma.

24:33Yes, through them.

24:35Why then it has to happen?

24:39It doesn't have to happen.

24:40There is a choice.

24:41You make the same choices as the saints did and then things will be different.

24:48So then if the Prakriti has known the Paramatma, then the misstep that this consciousness given

24:57to this one animal called human to be self-aware, then why it hasn't been taken away?

25:04By whom?

25:05Prakriti.

25:06Why will Prakriti take anything away or not take anything away?

25:13She's a non-doer.

25:15But through evolution we see that this consciousness has been given to humans by Prakriti itself.

25:22It is not being given to humans by Prakriti.

25:26Consciousness itself is Prakriti.

25:38It's just that consciousness lives in the illusion that it is separate from Prakriti.

25:47Semi-separate.

25:53What consciousness is there without the brain?

26:04Then why it has kept other animals to be devoid of that consciousness?

26:07It is a thought in your consciousness.

26:10Is that a thought in the animal's consciousness?

26:13They don't have it.

26:14How do you know?

26:15And they don't know how to be self-aware.

26:17How do you know?

26:23Acharya ji, when will Prakriti be completely know it and when there will be?

26:33Maybe around 33 years later.

26:38What kind of question is this?

26:42When will we have the next lunar eclipse?

26:47Are these pattern-based things?

26:51We use the word Brahma and Parabrahma, the absolute Brahma.

27:06And we use the word Atma and Paramatma.

27:12All four are one.

27:17And the Brahma we talk about, the one who keeps the thing, who has made the universe.

27:30That Brahma is different from its own mind, its brain.

27:54Brahma is for the Pandit.

27:56Brahma is for the Jnani.

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