Best Rakshabandhan Gift You can Ask for! || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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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.

00:19In 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.

01:46Nothing 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

02:11more.

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.

03:18The nest is not your fortress.

03:21The 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, but 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 because if you are not biological, then you are probably

05:26intellectual and 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 and that which you call as modernity or liberation

08:40or even feminism is unfortunately even more body centric.

08:48It's 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.

09:30What 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.

10:03Now that sounds so old fashioned, doesn't it?

10:06In 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.

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