Advocating Women's Rights || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Feminism and Vedanta || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)
Transcript
00:00What sensitized you towards women's issues and what made you advocate for women's rights?
00:06Nobody can, even if he or she tries to, think really beyond his own self.
00:12It's just that the definition of the self can keep getting purified and elevated as one progresses through life.
00:19But irrespective of the definition of the self, it's with self-interest that one works.
00:25So it is in my own self-interest that I advocate the welfare and the liberation of all mankind.
00:35And mankind obviously includes women.
00:39This world cannot be a place worth living in if half its human residents are suffering or are unable to realize their potential.
00:51If one has to be free, then everybody has to be free.
00:56So that's what gets me started every day.