Just Social Reforms Won’t Help || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Woman Empowerment: Two Essential Dimensions || Acharya Prashant, with ITM-Mumbai (2023)

Transcript

00:00Even if you take care of all those institutions, the external ones, the religious ones, the

00:06educational ones, the legal ones, the woman would still not be free.

00:11Even if you bestow all kinds of powers on her, she would still either refuse to wield

00:19those powers or would misuse those powers.

00:22Because internal bondage is way more severe than any kind of external bondage.

00:28If you give her external freedom without caring for her internal freedom, external freedom

00:34will become dangerous because it will create an illusion of freedom.

00:38A lot of so-called empowered women today, they say we are empowered, but internally

00:43they are still living in the jungle variety of bondage.

00:50So that's where self-knowledge comes in and that's where wisdom literature comes in.

00:55That's where Vedanta comes to the woman's rescue.