LGBTQ: Why does the society despise them? || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information:  AIIMS, Nagpur, 08.03.2022, Nagpur, India  Context: ~ How to set priorities? ~ How to be free? ~ What is freedom? ~ How to bring woman's revolution? ~ How to bring about a Total Women's revolution?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~  #acharyaprashant #NIT-Trichy

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00:00Thank you so much for the opportunity again. I want to ask, in our society, why is there

00:11such a huge reluctance to accept the LGBTQ community? Why is it that at home, at parents

00:19are just so reluctant, but why is society just so against this notion? Me as a person,

00:28I support LGBTQ notions and their existence, but then I know I fail to understand why is

00:36there a reluctance from others and why do they think it is wrong? Could you please elaborate

00:40or bring me forward? You do not want to accept anybody who's not like you, full stop. It's

00:46not just about the LGBTQ community. Anybody doing anything, that's a little out of the

00:54way. You don't want to accept it or endorse it. It's a threat to your own way of living.

01:02And you know that your way of living has not much substance in it. So anything that comes

01:10as a deviation becomes an object of suspicion. Not that I'm speaking here as a great LGBTQ

01:20supporter. I'm talking of the reason why we are so reluctant to look at alternate ways of life.

01:31Think of it. Aren't we all very, very deeply steeped in one particular way of living?

01:43You are born, you are given a name, you are given a religion.

01:47Think of it. Where is the deviation? There is school, there is college. Where is the deviation?

01:54All of us are moving on the same track. Then you get a job, then you get married,

02:03then you have kids, then you buy a house. The order might shuffle a little. Cars,

02:11cars. Then the kids have to be taken to school.

02:20Then you pester the kids so that they can clear the same entrance exam that you failed.

02:28And it's happening in every house, is it not? It's happening with everybody.

02:36As people, are we tolerant to deviations even a little? Tell me.

02:46You are talking of the LGBTQ community. Would you be tolerant towards someone who refuses to be

02:52educated? Education is a part of your script. Somebody says, I don't want to be educated.

02:58How tolerant would you be? In fact, you would be more tolerant towards a lesbian

03:05or a gay, then you would be towards a person who refuses the ordinary kind of education.

03:15Equally, having a settled job is a part of the script. How

03:23many of us would accept someone who says, I am never going to do a job. I have other things to do.

03:29I have realized myself, I know there is something very important I need to do

03:34and it's not the normal job that most people do. How many of us will be prepared

03:40to really give a nod to such a person? Someone who says, I don't want to marry.

03:50Especially if the person happens to be a woman.

03:53Someone who says, I want to have a kid, but without marriage. How many of you would accept?

03:58It is outside the script. Anything that is outside the script, we are very resistant to because the

04:04script is false. Because the script is false, therefore it has to be protected. The truth

04:11is not so insecure. You very well know that just a few instances in life,

04:21that just a few instances of deviations would totally tear down this false script. Therefore,

04:30you ensure that there are no deviations. Someone who says, I am never ever going to

04:36buy a house in my life. Think of how his parents are going to react.

04:41Think, I am not going to ever buy a house. Think of your own parents. You will never buy a house.

04:48You will never marry. Yeah, I will never marry, but I love kids. I will have one.

04:57Think of your mother's face now.

05:02So, it's not just related to the queer community.

05:05So, it's not just related to the queer community. The problem is more generic.

05:16You call me, three or four of you consecutively have referred to my educational qualifications.

05:25Irrespective of what my educational qualifications are, irrespective of what my age is now,

05:30so many people are still interested in asking that one question, why didn't you marry?

05:37Anything that is outside the script is not very acceptable. Not at all.

05:49So, sir, are there any steps that we can take to help those people,

05:55help or at least make the other people more tolerant?

06:00You want to help them?

06:02I want to spread the message and help them. I want to make them understand that this is okay,

06:08this is normal.

06:09No, no, you cannot just say that one thing is okay. When they are resistant towards everything

06:16that does not conform to their way of life, how will they accept just one outlier? They

06:24will be resistant towards everything. We are so used to our fixed patterns of living

06:36that we don't even notice how deeply conformist we all are. We notice that only when somebody dares

06:45to challenge the conformity and then we say, what is this person doing? What is this person doing?

06:50All of us are like assembly line products. Please see that.

06:57You remember that, Floyd? Brick in the wall.

07:03Brick in the wall. There is that wall.

07:09The design has been decided by some force of darkness and all of us are just bricks in the

07:15wall. How fascinating does that sound? Especially to a young man setting out on his journey,

07:23the entire life is there to be lived. How exciting it is to be just brick in the wall.

07:36So sir, should we just accept them as they will never understand and just move on?

07:42Educate, educate. That's what we are doing here right now.

07:47That's what we are doing here right now. See, look at these chairs. Just turn around a little,

07:53look at these chairs at the back. Look at them. That's how we are.

08:00Now it's alright as long as these are just inanimate chairs. It's alright if they are

08:07arranged in a pattern. They are all of the same dimension and the same color.

08:12It's alright if they are chairs. It's not alright if conscious beings are like that.

08:21But that's how we live. In color, in size, in shape,

08:25in tastes, in thoughts, in ideologies, in life. Everything is pre-scripted.

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