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Video Information: AIIMS, Nagpur, 08.03.2022, Nagpur, India
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~ How to be free?
~ What is freedom?
~ How to bring woman's revolution?
~ How to bring about a Total Women's revolution?
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00:00A very good evening, sir. Sir, according to World Bank, out of the total economic growth
00:09of India, women contribute only 17%. But there are Chinese found about contribute 40% to
00:16their nation. As we are aiming to be a $5 trillion economic country in the near future,
00:22what we as an Indian society can do to enhance the economic women workforce in our country
00:29apart from the education sector. If I get you right, what you are saying is
00:35that compared to Chinese women, Indian women contribute far less to the Indian economy
00:44in percentage terms. That's what you are saying? That's what you are saying?
00:49Okay, so you are saying how to amend that. See, how do you expect somebody to express
01:01herself, to go out, work, produce something worthwhile. If you have defined her value
01:15by the time and energy she puts in keeping you home and raising your kids. If that's
01:28how the society is going to assess the worth of a woman, what incentive does she have to
01:35go out and work? What I am telling your women, you are telling them, you stay at home, you
01:45take good care of the nest, you be a nice mother and give her all the respect. You will
01:58see how good a homemaker she is and she is doing all the fabulous things and this and that.
02:07This is how her worth is to people, both economic and psychological. Then tell me what is the
02:14incentive to go out and work? Even women with great professional degrees in India, coming
02:22out from IITs, IIMs, they decide to sit at home. Many of them obviously, not all of them.
02:30They decide to sit at home after a point and they say this is fine. Why is this not fine?
02:38Because the husband is earning and my worth has been determined by several factors other
02:46than my economic productivity. So, why do I need to take all the hassles and go out
02:53in the sun and break the heat and hit the road and do something? I will give you a very
03:00dangerous statistic. Have you heard of something called female labour participation rate?
03:08Have you heard of it? It refers to the percentage of women who are out there working and earning.
03:23So, we say the economy has liberalized, the Indian economy. We say Indians are much more
03:31liberal even in mind today. We say there are far more institutes of professional education
03:44today than there were let's say 20 years back. There are just too many seats now and the
03:55percentage of women entering those institutions has also increased. We say the girl of today
04:05is very very forward looking. These are the things that we say. Having said all these
04:11things, what do you expect regarding the number of working women today vis-a-vis the number
04:19of working women that were there 20 or 30 years back? What would you expect? What would
04:26you expect? Tell me. Ok, let me say. If there were 100 women working in 1980 or 1990, what
04:40would you expect would be the number in 2022? What number would you expect? 1000? Yes? Yes?
04:57The number is only slightly greater than 100 and in percentage terms it has actually dropped
05:06steeply. Percentage of the total population because the female population itself has
05:12increased over the last 30 years. As a percentage of the population, the FLPR has actually dropped
05:19and is dropping every year. Women are getting educated and empowered and everything and are
05:25choosing to sit at home. And when they were not so educated and not so empowered, empowered within
05:30courts, they were actually going out to work. Now why is this happening? This is so counter
05:38intuitive and mind boggling. Is it not? How is it possible that women with all the opportunities
05:44available to them today, with all the education that is available to them today, qualified women
05:48and knowledgeable women, they are opting to sit at home. What is happening? What is happening is
05:57that the husband's income has increased and the husband and the wife mutually decide that now
06:04that you are earning enough, why do I go out? And this is a mutual decision, mind you. Okay,
06:15I was working for 3 years post marriage but now that the baby has come, why do I need to work
06:21anymore? Or I take a break from work to take care of the baby and I think that I'll return after an
06:29year and I never return. Because the home is such a comfortable place. Let's face it. The home is
06:37such a comfortable place, especially if there is sufficient money at home. We might say that the
06:48labour participation rate will increase if there is more security in the workplace,
06:55if the workplace conditions are made more favourable for women and those arguments do
07:00hold some weight, I fully agree. I agree that some women do not go to work because workplaces
07:05are unsafe or because workplaces are not paying them enough or there is discrimination at workplace
07:12so some women are not going to work. But tell me, was there lesser discrimination in 1985?
07:17Then how is it possible that more and more women, educated women, empowered women are opting to sit
07:25at home? This is again the Prakritic tendency. What does mother Prakriti tell you? She tells
07:36you that the purpose of your life is relaxation and consumption. Now if relaxation and consumption
07:45are happily, coolly available at home, why work? And that's the same thing that even a man would
07:52do. Today, somebody comes and puts 100 crore in your bank account. There would be many amongst
08:00you who might decide to opt out of this program and just sit and lead a happy life. Intellectually,
08:08if you think about it, you might not agree. You will say, no, no, no, I am not like that. But
08:13when it happens, when you know that you have easy access to comfortable money, then there is no
08:23incentive to work. I am not saying that is the case with all women. But increasingly, a large
08:32cross-section of women are following this route and it is a very, very dangerous route. Very
08:41dangerous route. How do you change this situation? By changing the thought that consumption is the
08:53purpose of life. That lying down on the bed, munching expensive fries and watching Netflix
09:04is the highest pleasure that life can give you. Obviously wearing diamond jewellery. Can you
09:12imagine? Now if you have been trained to think that this is the pinnacle of life, a diamond
09:19bracelet, an expensive bed, wonderful air conditioning, a large room full of amenities,
09:27a 200-inch TV and you are watching the spicy program of your choice. Many of us would celebrate
09:38at this prospect, wish life were like this. Now this is hell. This is not the kind of life to be
09:47desired. This exactly is the picture of hell. Hell is where you don't have to work. Hell is where
09:57you don't have any purpose to life. Any purpose worth exerting yourself for, worth laying down
10:05your life for, that is hell. More and more, media, education, the entire culture is feeding this into
10:19our mind that you exist just to be happy. And where does happiness come from? More and more consumption.
10:26More furniture, a bigger car, five houses, a foreign vacation. We are being told that we exist
10:36not for our liberation but for consumption. And if consumption can be somehow available for free,
10:43then why work at all? Because consumption is anyway the end purpose. It's just that the things that
10:50are going to be available to you for consumption, they never come for free. They come at the cost
10:57of your entire life. And being a woman, you know very well why somebody would give you easy access
11:05to his money and his property. You know that, don't you? It's the body that is being sold for
11:12the money. That kind of life is despicable. That is worse than hell, I say. Are you getting? What
11:26kind of liberation can be there if you are dependent on somebody else even for your physical survival?
11:32What kind of freedom is possible if you don't have even two rupees of your own and then you
11:41say his money is my money? So if you want to change this situation, if you really want more
11:52women to come out and make a mark in life, then you have to first of all challenge the overarching
12:01philosophy, the dominant narrative of this day. It is a very very poisonous narrative. Capitalistic
12:11consumerism. Have money, consume. Have money, consume. It puts no emphasis on right work. In
12:19fact, it says that you are in the greatest position if you can consume a lot without
12:27having to exert even a little. That's the reason why everybody wants to have very nefarious sources
12:38of money. Because ultimately it's the money and the consumption that counts, not the source of
12:45money. How does it matter where the money is coming from? I can lie, cheat, kill, murder. I
12:50should get something to consume. I can sell my life provided the buyer feeds me with gold.
13:03Challenge this narrative. Otherwise this narrative will keep more and more women at
13:17home. Because the economy is progressing and men are getting richer. And as you get richer,
13:33you want to indulge in certain luxuries. One of the luxuries is keep the woman permanently at home.
13:42It's a luxury of life. I keep my girl at home. She is always available at my beck and call. If
13:50she goes out, who knows what may happen. She may taste freedom. She may taste success of her own.
13:55She may develop a life of her own. And who knows, if she goes out, she may actually go away from me.
14:02So it is great that she stays at home. I will provide for her. I will give her whatever she
14:06needs. Anyway the property remains mostly in the male's name. You very well know that women own
14:18less than 3% of the world's assets. They don't own anything. They are just given something. Why
14:26do you want to adjust to this situation? Do you want to? Do you want to be given something on a
14:36weekly or monthly basis from somebody else's bank account? The property belongs to somebody else.
14:41But he says, whenever you will ask me something darling, I will give it to you. Is this an
14:47honorable situation? Yes. Unfortunately more and more Indian women are falling for it because in
14:57absence of any kind of wisdom, it is the pop philosophy that is ruling our minds. We have
15:05no Vedanta in our life. We have nothing called wisdom literature in our life. Then what is the
15:14philosophy that rules our mind? It is a philosophy that comes to us from social media, from television.
15:20When you are watching a commercial or when you are watching a movie or anything that you are
15:26watching, it is not merely a picture or a video or an audio. It is a philosophical package and when
15:37you are watching that, you do not even know that you are actually buying into that philosophical
15:43package. Apparently, it is just the shape of the woman on Instagram and that's what you are
15:50keenly watching, right? It's good fun. It's not just the shape of the woman's body in that post.
15:57It is a philosophy that you have bought into and it's a very toxic philosophy. But we do not,
16:03but we do not come to know of that in that moment because in that moment, under the impact of lust
16:12and ignorance, our discretion takes a backseat. There is so much glamour on the screen. How will
16:22you even know that you are being indoctrinated? To know that you are being indoctrinated, you need
16:28to be conscious and the first thing that media does is it makes you unconscious with songs,
16:34with all the spice and when you are unconscious, then you can absorb anything. And that which you
16:45absorb becomes your life. Am I going too fast for you or too ahead of you? I am trying to give
17:05it as simple as possible. And it's actually simple. There is nothing complicated in this,
17:10a lot of this that I am saying, I understood it even when I was your age. So there is no
17:19great complexity here. Sir, like you were saying in middle of the discussion,
17:27like many women from so-called well-known institutions with holding a very good degree,
17:35they sit back at home and because their husband earn some good money, they stop working and sit
17:45at home doing nothing. But there is another perspective to it. Many a times it happens
17:54also because they do not have interest in what work they were doing. Like I will give you one
18:02personal example. There is a relative at my own house. She is doing a job currently, but I can
18:14see that she does not have great interest in it. Even if she doesn't work, it is not going to make
18:20any huge difference. But she does not have any interest working from day and night. She is
18:29looking for holidays or whatever, whatever things like that. So it is, is it very sensible to say
18:37that just because her husband is earning more, so they do not want to work. If there is nobody
18:45to feed you and you are not very interested in your job, will you still leave your job?
18:49No. Wait, answer this. Nobody is fully interested in his or her job. Even men are not very interested
18:59in their jobs. Nobody is. Do they leave their jobs and sit at home? They won't. Because they
19:06know there is nobody to feed them. So it is the presence of the other party ready to feed you,
19:14which is the primary factor in you saying, oh I am not interested, therefore I am dropping out.
19:18Nobody is interested. Are you fully interested in your MBBS course? Nobody is 100% interested.
19:24Wait. Nobody is fully interested. Why don't you drop out then? Because you have something to
19:33take care of. Because there is a deep responsibility towards something. When you give up that
19:40responsibility, then you can say, oh I am not interested. Even I am not extremely or absolutely
19:45interested in talking to you. What do I do? Run away. Nothing is absolute in this world. If you
19:51ask me am I 100% invested in this conversation, I am not. But certain things are done because they
19:57need to be done. The mandate is liberation and you cannot be liberated if you are dependent on
20:12somebody else to feed your stomach. So if you are disinterested in your work, then your responsibility
20:20is to go out and create the right work for yourself. This is a very bad apology. I am
20:25disinterested in the work, so I am sitting at home. If you are disinterested and you are being
20:29true to yourself, go out and create an alternate work. First of all, try to find the right work
20:35for yourself and if you cannot find it, then create it. What is this behavior? I am not
20:41interested, so I will sit at home, now you feed me. Now you feed me. The day he stops feeding,
20:47all your disinterest will vanish. Then you will go out and pick up whatever job is available,
20:53irrespective of your interest or lack of it. So this is a very bad apology. Don't be fooled by it.