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