If freedom takes abuses, take it || Acharya Prashant

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00:00If you want independence, you must be prepared to take abuses.

00:05Let them call you a whore, a slut, someone of loose character and whatever else they have to.

00:10Let them throw all these things at you.

00:12Fine, I am a slut, that's okay.

00:14But you have been turned into some kind of a goddess.

00:18A goddess who must be respected.

00:20And you say it is a part of our culture that we respect women.

00:23And the woman says, yes, I am respectable.

00:24And if somebody is insulting me, then no, no, no, I will not take that path.

00:28The fact is that the path of freedom is necessarily a path where your oppressors will insult you.

00:36Why will they not think of it?

00:38You are running away from their captivity.

00:40Will they worship you?

00:41Will they praise you?

00:43They will obviously throw abuses at you.

00:44And you have to be ready to accept all that.

00:47And you have to be ready for hardships.

00:49But again in that, the woman's softness has been venerated.

00:53So she is told you remain soft.

00:55Now if she remains soft, how will she face the hard challenges of life?