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Video Information: 11.02.23, MMMUT Gorakhpur (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Fertility clinic a huge business.
~ Why is childbirth so central in a women's life?
~ Forcing childbirth is an abuse to the human body.
~ Why was fertility so important?
~ Is Motherhood the best a woman can do?
~ What is stopping women's growth?
~ Biggest hurdle towards women's emancipation.
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 11.02.23, MMMUT Gorakhpur (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Fertility clinic a huge business.
~ Why is childbirth so central in a women's life?
~ Forcing childbirth is an abuse to the human body.
~ Why was fertility so important?
~ Is Motherhood the best a woman can do?
~ What is stopping women's growth?
~ Biggest hurdle towards women's emancipation.
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:30Good evening, sir. My question to you is regarding the fertility clinics. So in India, it is
00:38a huge business, the IVF fertility clinics and around the globe, it is booming. And many
00:43rich people tends to go for it. We have seen that women are often forced to go through
00:50multiple IVF cycles, leading to diseases like cancers, and then even death in some cases.
00:58Arguably, a large number of women are also committing suicide annually throughout the
01:02globe because of the physical and mental trauma that this process impales on them.
01:07So like the technology which initially promised that it is going to give something good to the
01:14human society and a positive thing, it turns out later in the path, the technology itself
01:20becomes a problem for us. So how do we approve this evil from society?
01:27You see, if you want a headshot, answer in one line, the answer is, it is abuse to the human body
01:44to be treated as a machine for reproduction. That's the last thing the human body should be used for.
02:06The function of reproduction must move out of the female body.
02:20I strongly hold that if women are to attain
02:26the rightful purpose of life, then they cannot squander their life energy on things like pregnancy.
02:49Our body centricity and the historical urge
02:54to increase and maintain a population has made us venerate fertility.
03:06We have goddesses of fertility. In cultures across the globe, we have had them.
03:13And why was that needed? That was needed because populations were small and disease was rife.
03:20People were dying all the time. Kids were dying all the time. So a fertile womb was a great asset.
03:35And wars were fought on manpower. The bigger army would frequently win. So you needed populations.
03:46And wars were savage. If you were defeated, you were decimated.
03:54So that's the reason why in our culture and in all cultures, motherhood and fertility and pregnancy have become such hallowed things.
04:09We talk so fondly and so respectfully of motherhood, don't we?
04:14But please look at it without bias. Look at it neatly, cleanly.
04:27And what is all that? A woman is in her prime at the time of pregnancy.
04:36What are you taking away her prime time for?
04:47And keep the emotional arguments apart, please. Your emotions are a product of your conditioning.
04:54Your emotions have all been bred out of your cultural upbringing.
05:06Please tell me why should a human body be used as a machine to produce nutrition for another body and that too for long periods, an year, sometimes more than a year.
05:24You're using one body as a machine to produce nutrition for another body.
05:31I know what I am saying will be pretty much unhearable to a lot of people.
05:43They will abuse me as being insensitive in human and everything.
05:49But I am speaking out of a certain sensitivity, please.
05:55Women constitute 50% of humanity. Let's not destroy them.
06:01We have already done enough of that in history.
06:15I mean, think of yourself.
06:19You will have a career and being a bright student, you will probably roam continents
06:28and you will have exposure and you will do this and you will do that and you will have a wife
06:32and your wife too will be probably as educated as you are and when you will be doing all the things you will be doing, she will be sitting at home nursing the baby.
06:40How fair is that? Please tell me.
06:46And can she really grow as a human being if her existence is tied to a baby and not one baby, several babies?
06:58So, science can take care of all this.
07:12Babies can be born in special facilities and they must be conceived, incubated, raised there.
07:28The mother's job must be to elevate the consciousness of the child.
07:36The mother should be a rightful teacher, not a birth giver.
07:42The task of giving birth must be accorded to science.
07:50Because that's a mechanical function and whatsoever is mechanical must be done by machines.
07:58But educating a child is not something a machine can do.
08:12Invoking discretion and wisdom in a child is not something a machine can do and that's where the mother's role starts.
08:21She should provide nutrition to the baby but not through breastfeeding.
08:29Through education, she must be the teacher.
08:34Are you getting it? The relationship between the mother and the child has to be one of consciousness, not one of the body.
08:49Has to be one of consciousness, not one of the body.
09:03You see what the situation is currently like.
09:07The mother's body gives birth to the child's body, so physical relationship.
09:12Then the mother is nursing the child's physical, breastfeeding physical and in all this the mother hardly has any concern for the kid's consciousness.
09:24She never could have any concern for her own consciousness.
09:28How will she have concern for the kid's consciousness?
09:32The result is a largely unconscious population on the planet that is destroying the planet itself.
09:41If you take the cultural aggrandization out of the picture, I assure you no woman enjoys the time of pregnancy.
10:02It's just that time has been glorified in fairy tales and cultural symbols.
10:14So the woman thinks she is going through something noble, something sublime, something worth it.
10:20The thing is keep all the cultural praise aside.
10:28No woman enjoys that.
10:31Even those who claim they are enjoying it greatly are actually enjoying only the psychological gratification that comes from the culture they belong to.
10:51Nobody enjoys it.
10:54And the risk to her own life at the time of delivery.
11:02So many women die. Even if they don't die, they have to bear so much on their body.
11:10Why must all that be necessary?
11:14How is that contributing to the kid's quality of life? Please tell me.
11:19How is the kid going to have a better life if the kid emerges by tearing the mother's womb apart as happens in a caesarean delivery?
11:33All that is largely unnecessary.
11:35The kid might as well have been brought home from a high-tech dedicated state-of-the-art medical facility.
11:46And the mother, in a healthy way, without having gone through the needless pains of pregnancy, would have received the child.
11:58And now the mother is in a better shape to nurture the child.
12:08Better shape and a better mental condition.
12:13And the child too, coming from a medical facility, is more sound of health.
12:31You see, we used to utilize human muscle to run vehicles, didn't we?
12:42That was not too long back.
12:46We said human muscle is to be used for energy.
12:52You wanted to do your laundry. What did you use for it? The human body.
13:02You used the human body to do your laundry, right?
13:04In fact, India developed a special caste just to do your laundry.
13:18You wanted to do your shoes.
13:24You used again energy from human muscles to do your shoes.
13:30Anything you wanted to do, you utilized the human body, right?
13:34Why you don't do that?
13:42All the mechanical functions have moved out of the human body, have they not?
13:50So if all the mechanical functions can move out of the human body, why must childbirth not move out of the human body?
13:57And if you say what is to be done through the human body must be done only through the human body,
14:05then let there be no machines.
14:09Let there be no solar energy or wind energy or nuclear energy.
14:19Let there be only muscular energy.
14:22Why do you burn fossil fuels?
14:26Run and carry all the load on your back.
14:32Because what has been traditionally done through the human body must be done through the human body.
14:40Traditionally human beings have carried all the load on their backs.
14:44Don't even use animals. Just carry it on your own back.
14:46Because traditionally that's what has happened.
14:49No tradition is sacred.
14:53Traditions exist for our sake.
14:57If one day we were using muscular energy and now we have freed our muscles, no?
15:01Similarly, till today we have been using the woman's womb.
15:05Let's liberate her of the womb.
15:09Just as you have liberated your muscles,
15:12liberate her womb as well.
15:14Let her be, please.
15:18There are so many other examples
15:20where you were traditionally using the human body and no more.
15:22No more.
15:24So,
15:26So,
15:28So,
15:30So,
15:32So,
15:34So,
15:36So,
15:38So,
15:41So,
15:43So,
15:45So,
15:57So,
16:01So,
16:05So,
16:07they can genetically modify the characteristic like physical strength or height and eye color
16:13and hair color and intelligence also maybe gender also.
16:17So obviously rich people will be using these products.
16:20So will this not create a gap between the rich and poor and create a totally different
16:27race of rich people?
16:29Will this be a good thing for the human civilization?
16:32Not really.
16:33By doing all this you can at most give certain resources to the child.
16:42You can ensure the child is tall.
16:45Now what is height?
16:48It's a resource.
16:50It does not guarantee anything.
16:53The purpose of life is elevation of consciousness, right?
16:59This cannot give high consciousness to the newborn.
17:07Using machines or using genetic engineering, you can at most modify or exaggerate the physical
17:15attributes of the child, right?
17:19But just because the child has been provided certain physical attributes in plenty, that
17:26does not mean the child will be special in consciousness.
17:31Consciousness is something that the child has to develop on his own after birth, right?
17:38It's a choice, right?
17:40Consciousness means choice.
17:41You can have the best of bodies, the best of health.
17:45The parents chose your color with great caution and you were given a body that would never
17:51fall sick.
17:52You can have all those things and still lead a very wretched life.
17:58So it's not that the rich will have some kind of an unfair advantage or something.
18:09Nobody is going to get a head start just because the kid is fair or tall or more muscular or
18:15more handsome or whatever, no?
18:18You can choose the color of the hair, so what?
18:22Or you can choose that the, I mean what else?
18:26What do you mean by physical attributes?
18:28You can have a child who will have strong lungs, strong heart and all those things.
18:34None of that matters beyond a point.
18:39What matters ultimately is consciousness and to the consciousness all these things are
18:44mere resources.
18:47It's a choice to put these resources to the right use and history is replete with instances
18:54where people who were extraordinarily blessed at the time of birth lived utterly miserable
19:03lives because they did not know what to do with their gifts and at the same time people
19:09who were born in pretty ordinary situations, not really gifted people, not people of high
19:16IQ either, they really impacted the very flow of human history because that's what
19:24they chose and that choice is independent of the body you carry.
19:30That choice is something very mysterious.
19:34Somebody with great resources might still not dare to exercise his choice rightly and
19:40somebody with very feeble resources might still have the faith to make the right choice.
19:46So it's just a thing of choice, there is no reason behind it.
19:49Why did that happen that way?
19:51It was a choice and I am not talking of influenced choices, I am not talking of conditioned choices.
19:58Consciousness has the ability to make a free choice.
20:02It may not make a free choice and it does not make free choices.
20:06Actually it never makes free choices, that's another thing.
20:09But the option to choose freedom is there.