Raising daughters || Acharya Prashant

Full video: How should India raise its daughters? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Transcript

00:00What is the ideal way for India to raise its daughters?

00:03Garments even for four-year-old girls are more expensive than those for four-year-old boys.

00:10It's as if both the parents and the girl are being messaged that the girl's

00:19worth lies in her body and therefore her garments.

00:23As long as you are saying I am raising a daughter, it's a daughter you will raise.

00:27Why must a responsible mother ever introduce lip gloss to her daughter?

00:33Is that not very very violent of her or to costumes that are very feminine?

00:39Learning is the purpose of her life. Growth is what she is born for.

00:44She does not exist to serve the husband or the kids or somebody else.

00:49Her primary purpose is to serve her own existential internal need.