Sister, the nest is not an asset || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information:  Shabdyog session, 22.07.2018, Advait Bodhsthal,  Noida, India   Context:   ~ How to bring woman's revolution? ~ How to bring about a Total Women's revolution?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 "Man exploits the earth to get minerals.

00:06 Man exploits the earth to get crops.

00:12 Man exploits everything that he can and that is not considered really immoral.

00:21 In fact, we reward those who are the most clever exploiters.

00:29 If you can exploit the atom to get energy, you feel so happy, don't you?

00:38 The atom in its own prakritic way was not eager to supply you energy but you took the

00:44 atom and said I am in need of energy because I am ambitious, because I want more comfort

00:52 so I will exploit this atom and get energy.

00:56 And if you can break open the atom and get energy, you feel happy and you respect and

01:05 reward those who do all these things.

01:11 So if man gets recognition, respect and reward for exploiting, why would man spare the woman

01:20 or even the woman spare the man?

01:27 But the woman, the human female is biologically conditioned to have a nest just as the animal

01:40 female is.

01:43 But for the animal female, the nest is the end of the story.

01:48 Everything happens beyond that.

01:49 The nest is made, the young ones are there and then the rest of the prakritic story unfolds

01:55 and that's it.

01:57 In humans, there is society beyond biology.

02:05 So if the woman is in the nest, that gives an opportunity to the man to exploit her even more.

02:18 The male bird will not exploit the female bird when she cannot fly because she is taking

02:27 care of the eggs or the young ones.

02:30 The male bird would not exploit her then.

02:36 But in humans, the male is likely to exploit the female when she is sitting in the nest

02:46 to take care of the little baby.

02:51 The woman will have to go beyond her biological self.

02:57 The nest is the expression of the woman's biological self.

03:01 As long as there is the nest, the woman would keep getting exploited.

03:07 Unfortunately, the woman is still thinking that the nest is her asset, that the nest

03:14 is her protective cocoon.

03:18 The nest is not your friend.

03:20 The nest is not your fortress.

03:23 The nest is your cage.

03:28 The man is just indifferent to the nest.

03:32 The woman should be repugnant to the nest.

03:36 Instead the woman is the one who actively seeks the nest.

03:40 And when a human female seeks a nest, she is only seeking a prison.

03:50 Man does not rebel against the nest.

03:53 Man is just indifferent.

03:54 If there is a nest, man says, "Ok, I'll come".

03:57 If there is no nest, man is ok even with a hotel room.

04:01 Man is ok even with a hostel.

04:04 Man is prepared sometimes even to sleep under the sky, beneath a tree.

04:09 It is the woman who demands a nest.

04:13 The woman will have to actively rebel against the nest.

04:19 As long as there is the nest, the woman will remain chained.

04:25 Ironically, the woman is the one who clamors for the nest.

04:31 If there is a relationship, it would be the woman who would keep asking actively, "Darling,

04:39 when are we getting married?"

04:44 And after the marriage, she will be the one who will keep pestering.

04:47 "When will we have a house of our own?"

04:53 The woman is her own worst enemy because she is very very biology driven.

05:03 Man too is biology driven, but he abides by his intellect too.

05:10 He abides by his intellect much more than the woman does.

05:16 The woman is extremely biological.

05:22 And that is beautiful in some sense because if you are not biological, then you are probably

05:28 intellectual and the intellect is a bigger curse than it is a boon.

05:41 The woman is simpler, more innocent.

05:47 I would dare to say the woman is simple and innocent just as animals are.

05:53 Because woman just like animals is biology driven.

05:57 She is emotional and her emotions do not really arise from understanding, not even from intellect.

06:07 Her emotions arise from her body, from her biological conditioning, from her hormones.

06:15 Look at the way she is attached to the baby.

06:18 That does not involve any understanding.

06:20 All that is pure biology, hormones.

06:26 Man has no such chains.

06:33 Man has no such compulsions.

06:37 It is biology that confines and chains and imprisons the woman.

06:48 As long as the woman keeps herself identified with her body, the nest and biology, there

06:53 is no freedom for her.

06:57 As long as the woman keeps thinking that her body is an asset, there is no freedom for

07:02 her.

07:04 As long as the woman keeps thinking that freedom is about flaunting her body, there is no freedom

07:09 for her.

07:15 The woman is the more oppressed of the two genders and therefore the revolution must

07:20 arise from the woman.

07:28 Woman by rebelling against the body will be the harbinger of a revolution that will liberate

07:39 entire mankind, woman and man included, both.

07:46 But if you will ask me between these two genders, which one is likely or which one rather must

07:54 initiate the revolution, I would say the woman.

07:59 Because the woman is the more oppressed of the two.

08:05 Once the revolution begins, obviously man too will be liberated.

08:10 But just as woman gives birth to the man, woman will also need to give birth to the

08:16 freedom of man.

08:20 Man will not be able to give birth to his own freedom.

08:25 Freedom too will be born out of woman.

08:29 That does not seem to be happening.

08:31 Woman remains terribly body identified and that which you call as modernity or liberation

08:42 or even feminism is unfortunately even more body centric.

08:51 It's just that now the body centricity is a little hidden.

09:02 There is only one way to go beyond the body and that is the way of truth, the way of spirituality.

09:12 All other ways go from the body to the body.

09:22 So you can go from veiling to revealing.

09:28 But you are just going from the body to the body.

09:32 What were you veiling?

09:35 The body.

09:36 And now what are you revealing?

09:38 The body.

09:40 All this great liberation movement has only taken you from the body to the body.

09:47 So there is no liberation at all.

09:49 You are just being cheated and fooled.

09:57 The only way the woman can be liberated is the spiritual way, the spiritual route.

10:05 Now that sounds so old fashioned, doesn't it?

10:08 In fact you would love to say that religion is the curse of woman, that using religion

10:13 the woman has been confined and oppressed and what not.

10:17 But all that was false religion.

10:18 Don't throw the baby out with bath water.

10:23 If the woman can be saved, it is only through true spirituality.

10:29 Because spirituality alone can take you out of your body identification.

10:34 [Music]

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