Liberation Beyond Gender || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Patriarchy - the role and suffering of men || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00Sir, what is the role of men in liberation of women?

00:03You have to be a human being to help another human being.

00:06And that's a very different way of looking at yourself.

00:09And when, mind you, you are a human being, it is not only the man or the woman that you

00:13help.

00:14Then you help entire existence.

00:15Then you care for the birds, the bees, the dogs, the squirrel, the fish.

00:19Then you cannot say, oh, I am a participant in the women's liberation movement.

00:25Now where is my mutton chaap?

00:27How is it possible that you have so much empathy towards women, but not the goat?

00:31How is it possible?

00:32When you are really awake, then it is not only the gender that you care towards.

00:38Then you care towards all consciousness because you realize that consciousness is the goal

00:43of life.

00:44Then you cannot be violent towards anybody, not even towards a blade of grass.

00:48You will try your best to minimize violence or eradicate it in whichever way possible.