How to raise our daughters? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

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00:00Unfortunately, most parents are themselves in need of self-knowledge and education, life

00:10education.

00:12So the way they treat their kids, especially their daughters, is pretty horrible.

00:23So the way boys and girls are differentially introduced to sports and all the little cues

00:42that girls keep getting, little but continuous, continuous.

00:53Their very seats at the dining table, who's supposed to help with the dishes, who's supposed

01:04to go outdoors to play, who's supposed to have the guns and who'll have the dolls, who

01:17can walk around topless even at the age of seven or eight.

01:24Seven or eight, the bodies are not so different, but even if the girl is seven years of age

01:31and she's on a beach, the mother will probably ask her to not go topless.

01:40And that's not about strangers prying on her.

01:44Even if there is nobody on the beach, the mother will say, oh you please cover up.

01:48So all that turns the girl very body-centric and that plays havoc with consciousness, caricature

02:05she turns out into with no appetite for anything sublime.

02:12The body becomes a toy, the body becomes a weapon and the mind becomes numb.

02:24The result of all this is stupidity and then you have the caricature of the dumb blonde.

02:33Right?

02:34Heard of it?

02:37All that is very unfortunate.

02:41But what's that meant to communicate?

02:44Someone who is gorgeous, sexy, sexually very compelling, but very dumb of mind.

02:58Why does it come to that, if at all?

03:04Why must this unfortunate thing be allowed to happen?

03:07No, it's not allowed to happen, it's made to happen and we do that with our daughters

03:14because we ourselves are body-identified in the first place.

03:18So these are just two genders, not two different

03:28species, right?

03:31Man and woman.

03:32These are just two genders, different genders, not different species.

03:36So her fundamental identity is exactly the same as that of the man.

03:43Her fundamental urge is exactly the same and she wants liberation every bit as much as

03:49the man wants.

03:52But we do not realize that because the society itself has been historically man-dominated

03:59and man has no interest in looking at the woman as a conscious entity.

04:05Man would rather look at the woman as a material sexual object to be consumed.

04:15And very unfortunately the woman too has imbibed this idea.

04:22This idea comes from the man and it's not that this idea serves the man, no.

04:29This idea has poisoned even the man's consciousness.

04:34It's not that this idea is good for one gender and exploitative towards the other, no.

04:39This idea has destroyed both the genders.

04:46And the woman too has embraced this idea of her body, her identity, her life.

04:57It's the mothers that destroy their daughters the most.

05:05So it's very curious, sometimes you find fathers being liberal and they do not want the daughter

05:19to develop into the typical woman.

05:25There are more liberal and broad-minded fathers and it's the mother who wants to confine the

05:32daughter and turn her into the stereotypical woman.

05:38So that's the worst thing that can happen.

05:41The woman herself imbibing a male-centric idea of femininity.

05:58She does not need to develop herself as a toy for the man.

06:09She is consciousness.

06:13She deserves to know, learn, explore, experience.

06:18Learning is the purpose of her life.

06:21Growth is what she's born for.

06:31She's not born to give birth.

06:37She has taken birth for her own growth, not to give birth to five other entities.

06:47She does not exist to serve the husband or the kids or somebody else.

06:55Her primary purpose is to serve her own existential internal need and that is for liberation.

07:04That's what she wants.

07:08She has to get this body-centered image out of her mind.

07:13She has to stop believing that being a wife and being mother are very important things.

07:21Only then can there be liberation for the woman.

07:25As long as the idea of womanhood is tied to her sexual life, which includes life as a

07:34mother, there is no hope for the girl, the woman and all that is quite sad.

07:43Let's change that.

07:46We have already had enough destruction.

07:49Let the girls of today put an end to all that crap.

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