How to bring about a Total Women's revolution? || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00What does it mean to be a woman?

00:10A lot that is hurtful.

00:22Why must one keep bearing the hurt?

00:34One bears the hurt because

00:52one is drawing certain comforts.

01:05The hurt is deep and lasting.

01:09The comforts are cheap.

01:28The comforts like the hurts are both physical and psychological.

01:49There has to be a total revolution in the way the woman looks at herself.

02:13She cannot be a creature of the nest.

02:28As long as the nest exists, the woman would be exploited.

02:49With females in the animal kingdom, the nest is possible.

02:59The nest works because animals are just biological or at least mostly biological.

03:16They are not governed predominantly by social forces.

03:22Prakriti governs them and so if Prakriti dictates the female animal to have a nest,

03:41it works.

03:51The animal female is an animal, born an animal, dies an animal, is not ambitious, lives just

03:59fulfilling her Prakritic roles.

04:04The animal male is too just an animal, is born an animal, dies an animal and has no

04:13ambition beyond his Prakritic mandate to conquer or exploit.

04:24But man is not merely biological.

04:26Man is social as well.

04:33And man has a social mandate to conquer, exploit.

04:41He exploits everything.

04:42He exploits Prakriti and that you call as development, don't you?

04:48He exploits his intellect and that you call as knowledge, don't you?

04:54And if man will exploit everything and you feel greatly happy when man exploits everything,

05:02why will man not exploit the woman?

05:05No animal is supposed to exploit but man is supposed to exploit, is he not?

05:13Man exploits the earth to get minerals.

05:16Man exploits the earth to get crops.

05:23Man exploits everything that he can and that is not considered really immoral.

05:31In fact, we reward those who are the most clever exploiters.

05:39If you can exploit the atom to get energy, you feel so happy, don't you?

05:48The atom in its own Prakritic way was not eager to supply you energy.

05:54But you took the atom and said I am in need of energy because I am ambitious, because

06:00I want more comfort.

06:02So I will exploit this atom and get energy.

06:06And if you can break open the atom and get energy, you feel happy and you respect and

06:15reward those who do all these things.

06:21So if man gets recognition, respect and reward for exploiting, why would man spare the woman

06:31or even the woman spare the man?

06:38But the woman, the human female is biologically conditioned to have a nest just as the animal

06:50female is.

06:53But for the animal female, the nest is the end of the story.

06:58Nothing happens beyond that.

06:59The nest is made, the young ones are there and then the rest of the Prakritic story unfolds

07:05and that's it.

07:08In humans, there is society beyond biology.

07:15So if the woman is in the nest, that gives an opportunity to the man to exploit her even more.

07:29The male bird will not exploit the female bird when she cannot fly because she is taking

07:37care of the eggs or the young ones.

07:40The male bird would not exploit her then.

07:46But in humans, the male is likely to exploit the female when she is sitting in the nest

07:56to take care of the little baby.

08:01The woman will have to go beyond her biological self.

08:07The nest is the expression of the woman's biological self.

08:12As long as there is the nest, the woman would keep getting exploited.

08:17Unfortunately, the woman is still thinking that the nest is her asset, that the nest

08:25is her protective cocoon.

08:28The nest is not your friend.

08:30The nest is not your fortress.

08:34The nest is your cage.

08:38The man is just indifferent to the nest.

08:42The woman should be repugnant to the nest.

08:46Instead the woman is the one who actively seeks the nest.

08:50And when a human female seeks a nest, she is only seeking a prison.

09:01Man does not rebel against the nest.

09:03Man is just indifferent.

09:05If there is a nest, man says, ok, I'll come.

09:07If there is no nest, man is ok even with a hotel room.

09:12Man is ok even with a hostel.

09:14Man is prepared sometimes even to sleep under the sky, beneath a tree.

09:19It is the woman who demands a nest.

09:24The woman will have to actively rebel against the nest.

09:29As long as there is the nest, the woman will remain chained.

09:35Ironically, the woman is the one who clamors for the nest.

09:41If there is a relationship, it would be the woman who would keep asking actively, darling,

09:49when are we getting married?

09:54And after the marriage, she will be the one who will keep pestering.

09:57When will we have a house of our own?

10:03The woman is her own worst enemy because she is very very biology driven.

10:13Man too is biology driven, but he abides by his intellect too.

10:20He abides by his intellect much more than the woman does.

10:26The woman is extremely biological and that is beautiful in some sense.

10:35Because if you are not biological, then you are probably intellectual and the intellect

10:43is a bigger curse than it is a boon.

10:51The woman is simpler, more innocent.

10:58I would dare to say the woman is simple and innocent just as animals are.

11:03Because woman just like animals is biology driven.

11:08She is emotional and her emotions do not really arise from understanding, not even from intellect.

11:18Her emotions arise from her body, from her biological conditioning, from her hormones.

11:25Look at the way she is attached to the baby.

11:28That does not involve any understanding.

11:31All that is pure biology, hormones.

11:37Man has no such chains.

11:43Man has no such compulsions.

11:47It is biology that confines and chains and imprisons the woman.

11:58As long as the woman keeps herself identified with her body, the nest and biology, there

12:03is no freedom for her.

12:07As long as the woman keeps thinking that her body is an asset, there is no freedom for her.

12:15As long as the woman keeps thinking that freedom is about flaunting her body, there

12:19is no freedom for her.

12:25The woman is the more oppressed of the two genders and therefore the revolution must

12:31arise from the woman.

12:38Woman by rebelling against the body will be the harbinger of a revolution that will liberate

12:49entire mankind, woman and man included, both.

12:56But if you will ask me between these two genders, which one is likely or which one rather must

13:04initiate the revolution, I would say the woman.

13:09Because the woman is the more oppressed of the two.

13:15Once the revolution begins, obviously man too will be liberated.

13:20But just as woman gives birth to the man, woman will also need to give birth to the

13:26freedom of man.

13:31Man will not be able to give birth to his own freedom.

13:35Freedom too will be born out of woman.

13:39That does not seem to be happening.

13:42Woman remains terribly body identified and that which you call as modernity or liberation

13:52or even feminism is unfortunately even more body centric.

14:01It's just that now the body centricity is a little hidden.

14:12There is only one way to go beyond the body and that is the way of truth, the way of spirituality.

14:22All other ways go from the body to the body.

14:32So you can go from veiling to revealing, but you are just going from the body to the body.

14:42What were you veiling?

14:46The body.

14:47And now what are you revealing?

14:48The body.

14:50All this great liberation movement has only taken you from the body to the body.

14:57So there is no liberation at all.

14:59You are just being cheated and fooled.

15:07The only way the woman can be liberated is the spiritual way, the spiritual route.

15:15Now that sounds so old fashioned, doesn't it?

15:18In fact, you would love to say that religion is the curse of woman, that using religion

15:23the woman has been confined and oppressed and what not.

15:27But all that was false religion, don't throw the baby out with bath water.

15:33If the woman can be saved, it is only through true spirituality.

15:40Because spirituality alone can take you out of your body identification.

15:50The body, the hormones, the maternity, the nest.

15:55As long as these remain important to the woman, no liberation, no liberation at all.

16:05And when her body will cease to be important for her, the man too will cease to be important for her.

16:13Man rides upon woman, enslaves woman, because the man is very important for the woman.

16:24Woman may or may not be the center of a man's world, but go to most women and you will find

16:35that man is the center of the woman's world.

16:42It is quite strange.

16:43If you want to test this, go and conduct an experiment.

16:58Test it.

17:00What is the woman thinking of?

17:04Her thoughts are much more biologically driven.

17:06What is she thinking of?

17:09Once she has become the mother, she is thinking of the kids.

17:14The wife thinks more about the husband's welfare than the husband thinks about the wife's welfare.

17:19Isn't that a general rule?

17:22The wife is ready with the dinner and the husband often doesn't even return in time.

17:28Now who has been thinking more about the other?

17:33The wife.

17:34And all this has been taken as her humanity, her kindness.

17:42She has been called as motherly and nurturing and she has been venerated, deitified, praised.

17:55Don't take that respect, that veneration.

18:05By being turned into a deity, you are being confined within four walls of the temple.

18:13Don't accept that.

18:20The man should not be at the center of the woman's world.

18:26By the way, if the men want to drool over women, let them drool.

18:33Let the men keep thinking of women.

18:36The women must be independent of the men.

18:39I know that's not easy.

18:41I know I am asking for something close to impossible.

18:44But that is the only way out.

18:48Woman will have to stop giving man so much importance.

18:51The importance that woman gives to her body, her biology, the nest and man are all one.

19:00Is there a nest without a man?

19:05The woman does not build the nest for herself.

19:08She builds it for herself and her man.

19:16If you go and figure out the fact of loneliness, it is the woman who is more susceptible to loneliness.

19:27Man makes merry even in the company of man.

19:33You would find boys gang going all over, all around.

19:38A group of six boys having fun.

19:42But rarely would you find a group of six girls having fun.

19:45They need men.

19:48Six girls are not happy together.

19:55Six boys, on the contrary, can be very happy together.

20:01The woman needs the man and that's what keeps her bonded.

20:08We need girls' gangs.

20:13We need girls' communes.

20:17We need women to be alright with themselves.

20:22We don't want women to be emotionally dependent or biologically dependent on men.

20:28We don't want women to seek a man to complete her identity.

20:36We don't want the woman to seek a man to complete her name.

20:42Are you getting this?

20:53If you say you are a mother, what are you always looking for?

20:58Looking for a child.

21:01And when you are not a mother, you are a wannabe mother.

21:04And if you are a wannabe mother, then you are always looking for the husband and his sexual power.

21:15And you are saying, I am dependent on you.

21:19My womb is empty and waiting.

21:22Come fill it up.

21:32My nest is so lonely without you.

21:40And a lot of that is done just in the name of Mamata.

21:47The woman is such a perpetual mother.

21:49She is a mother even to the husband.

21:55She begins as a girlfriend and ends as the mother.

21:59Six months, she remains a girlfriend.

22:02One year, she remains a wife.

22:04Rest of the life, she is a mother to everybody.

22:11And she finds great pride in declaring that.

22:14If she has a son and a daughter, she will say, I have three kids.

22:23And all three behave in the same way.

22:25They are dependent on me.

22:26They suck up on me.

22:29I prepare food for all.

22:36I wash everybody's clothes.

22:38There is no difference between the kids and the husband.

22:51As long as you take your biological role seriously, you will remain in chains.

23:03And your biological role confines you to the nest.

23:13Mark the nest.

23:14That's your enemy.

23:17But you take that as your security cordon.

23:24You say, within this, I am so safe.

23:27Within this, I don't have to experience the dirt and the harsh sun.

23:32Chill.

23:34No.

23:35Get out of the nest.

23:37Hit the road.

23:42The nest.

23:46Nothing else.

23:47The nest.

23:48I don't know, Shilpi, whether I have answered you, and Parameswari, you too.

24:16Getting it?

24:23Never get married into a home.

24:26Never get married into a family.

24:32Never become the queen of a bedroom, or a kitchen, or the entire house.

24:47Just the nest, or parts of the nest.

24:52And don't be so identified with the damn eggs.

24:56All the time concerned with the eggs, the eggs, the eggs.

25:02Look at what the market says when it talks of the woman.

25:07Are there books specific to the woman?

25:10But look at all the advertisements.

25:12What are they selling when it comes to the woman?

25:17Half rated to the eggs and the body.

25:27Man might even be sold frequent flyer programs because it travels a lot.

25:35But woman is always targeted to sell the lip gloss, the bra, and egg paint.

25:55Why aren't the airlines targeting you to sell their frequent flyer programs, I ask you?

26:01Why don't you fly away?

26:05Fly away from the nest.

26:07That's your only chance.

26:22Cars are being sold, and the target customer is the man.

26:28And the woman is being used to sex up the car.

26:38Very few car companies are targeting to sell cars to women.

26:44Such an insult it is, is it not?

26:47No car manufacturer thinks that an entire model can be brought out to serve the needs of women.

26:56But the woman is always present in the car advertisement.

26:59And what is she doing there?

27:01Displaying the curves.

27:03And the manufacturer is saying, my car is as curvy as this woman.

27:08All the men come over.

27:14Be the user of the car, not the doll in the car.

27:21Learn to be on the driver's seat, not on the rear seat or the seat next to the driver.

27:33Learn to hold the steering, get out of your nest.

27:43And don't be so damn particular about your sexuality and virginity and what else.

27:54All body stuff.

27:56My biggest asset is my eyebrows and lips and curves and virginity.

28:11Now what do you expect from life?

28:16What else will you get except bondage and imprisonment?

28:25Knowledge must be your asset.

28:31Strength must be your asset.

28:35Exposure must be your asset.

28:39Money must be your asset.

28:44And overall, truth must be your asset, not your breasts and hips.

28:55You spend so much time pandering to the needs of the body.

29:08Spend time enriching yourself.

29:12Spend time gaining knowledge.

29:14Spend time skilling yourself.

29:18Why do we find so few women in science out of the list of 800 or 900 Nobel laureates?

29:28Why are there so few women?

29:35Why are so few women in the science laboratories of the world?

29:44Where are they in politics, in sports?

29:48At least in the developing countries, where are they in literature, in all ways of creativity?

30:02I'll tell you where they are.

30:03They are there in the nest.

30:07When man is busy creating a new machine, the woman is busy looking after her eggs.

30:19Now who will rule and who will be the slave?

30:21Tell me.

30:23Tell me.

30:27And unfortunately, the woman is preparing herself just to receive the man.

30:36The woman is actually more selfless than the man.

30:40She is a finer product of evolution than man.

30:43So the man will be busy enhancing his business or creating a new machine.

30:52And the woman would be busy taking care of the house and cooking food for the man.

30:58Now man has done everything for his own personal development.

31:02He will be called the ruler of the business empire.

31:06And what is the woman doing?

31:09Doing the man's laundry and cooking his dinner.

31:15And he returns more and more empowered every day because 8-10 hours of the day he is working

31:24in his self-interest.

31:26He is working to gain money.

31:28He is working to gain respect, power, strength.

31:32And what is the woman doing all this while?

31:35Taking care of the eggs, doing the laundry, doing the meals.

31:42And then she expects that the man will be honest and kind enough to grant her an equal status.

31:49Why will this exploitative man, as man is defined to be, why will this man ever grant

31:55her an equal status?

32:00Why?

32:05The man is the king.

32:09And pardon me for being harsh, you are just his concubine.

32:15You may call yourself as the queen, but you are not.

32:20A harlot you are.

32:24The king can throw you away whenever he pleases.

32:38Be less emotional.

32:41The emotion is the woman's undoing.

32:48Don't weep so frequently.

32:52Mind those tears.

32:55You think your tears are your strength?

32:57They are your biggest weakness.

33:00Curse yourself for weeping out.

33:06Stay strong.

33:19Don't give in to emotional traps.

33:21The man says, darling why do you have to work?

33:26You stay at home.

33:27I will work.

33:32You take care of the bed and the eggs and the babies and your mother-in-law.

33:43I will bring in the booty and obviously you have equal rights over that.

33:49My money is your money.

33:50Never accept this temptation.

33:55His money is never your money.

33:58Never ever try to think that his money is your money.

34:01If you don't earn anything, then you are a beggar and that's all, full stop.

34:06He might be earning millions.

34:08But if you don't earn anything of your own, you don't earn anything full stop.

34:14Emotions, tears, biology, body, nest, that's the woman's world and she is so easy to fool.

34:30So easy to fool.

34:35And man has been forever fooling the woman and the woman still doesn't want to wake up.

34:49One feels like worshipping the woman for enduring so much.

34:54One feels like worshipping the woman for being so willingly exploited.

35:02And one feels like slapping her hard in the face for being so stupid.

35:11Her own worst enemy she is.

35:26Talk emotions to her and she will be pleased.

35:29Talk sense to her and she will be offended.

35:39Truth is often rough and blunt and harsh.

35:44Tell the truth to her and she feels he doesn't love me.

36:00And offer her emotional sweeties and you will be the best friend she ever had.

36:23I personally have so much trouble with women.

36:27So difficult to teach them.

36:37And if you somehow manage to teach them a little, they become emotional.

37:02I know a lot of what I have said is a sweeping generalization.

37:11But still it is very pertinent and applicable.

37:17Don't just dismiss what I am saying as stereotyping.

37:22I might be stereotyping, yet what I am saying is relevant for the great majority of men

37:28and women.

37:42What is this thing with long hair?

37:44Why must you keep long hair?

37:46I am asking you.

37:47So that men have ease in pulling your hair and controlling you by your hair.

37:59You are already physically weaker and then you have a long tail up here.

38:07Anybody can hold your tail and control you.

38:11Even a 10 year old boy can defeat you by just using your tail.

38:22But women won't live without long hair.

38:25And I never understand this.

38:31So I said if you won't cut your hair, I will grow mine.

38:39But we cannot accept this duality.

38:45Men will have short ones and women will have long ones.

38:47I said I will grow mine, let's see.

38:51But here again biology is defeating me.

38:53My hair don't grow half as long as yours.

38:58I never get a haircut, but the hair only come till my shoulders.

39:03Shoulders go right down to your butts.

39:11As if biology itself is conspiring to keep the woman chained.

39:29What is this thing with make-up?

39:35What is this?

39:36What do you mean by make-up?

39:38Spirituality is all about giving up things that are made up.

39:44And you are always making up.

39:46Only the false is made up.

39:56And what not?

39:58Silicone implants, false bras, false eyebrows.

40:07What else is there?

40:08The thing that removes the wrinkles?

40:13Botox.

40:18The entire time is being spent in this nonsense.

40:28I don't know the details, but there is so much.

40:30You can read all that on the menus of the saloons.

40:38This treatment, that treatment and God knows how expensive they are.

40:43And from where is all that money coming?

40:46Mostly from the man.

40:53And if it is not coming from the man, it is your own hard-earned money.

40:57Then it is even worse.

41:06You tell this to the women in that beauty parlor.

41:18And they will pull your little hair out.

41:31The body, the nest.

41:35Be very cautious of this.

41:38Man too has to be cautious of this, but woman has to be supremely cautious.

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