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00:00We don't really look at the woman as a human being, we look at her as her physical identity,
00:25we have lenses of sex and gender.
00:36It is the woman-ness that matters more to us and matters not in any innocuous sense, matters
00:52in a rather disturbing sense, it is even in a victim, we fail to see the human being.
01:21The sexual lenses are always on.
01:28And it is quite pathetic what that tells about the seer, the looker.
01:40It is the female body, it is the female body that catches our attention, not the loss of
01:47a precious human life.
01:53Because the gaze is so sexual, it no more remains a surprise, gruesome acts of are so frequent
02:07in our country.
02:10No crime happens in isolation.
02:14The very social gaze is sexual.
02:20It is not that one particular wild individual just dropped in from somewhere and committed
02:36the crime.
02:37No.
02:40The general society is the breeding ground.
02:46what you call as the common man, the normal social person provides the ecology, the environment
03:03in which wider, deeper and very violent sexual crimes then manifest.
03:16It has to be remembered that the perpetrator of the crime is a part of the larger society.
03:24Though when there are protests, we want to believe that the larger society is blameless and all
03:41the blame has to fall on one single individual or a few of them.
03:47That is not how the thing really is.
04:00When these violent explosions occur, they point at something much more deeper and much more
04:13general and widespread.
04:17So, we want to exonerate ourselves, we want to say we are all good civilized social people
04:30and we condemn these acts.
04:36I am afraid that is an alibi that is run out of its defense.
04:48How long will we keep saying that we are all decent people?
04:58From where is all the indecency coming then?
05:06And if you look at the culprits, they come from all state of the society.
05:14It is not always some landless laborer or truck driver.
05:22It could be a rich man, it could be a leader, it could be a government employee, it could
05:29be a businessman, it could be a teenager, remember the Nirbhaya case, or it could be a really
05:42old god man.
05:44Yes.
05:45They come from all places and in all kinds of clothing.
05:54It is a wider social phenomena which we are not ready to acknowledge.
06:05Because if we acknowledge that would be tantamount to accepting our own culpability.
06:16I will come to who we are and how we are.
06:20And from that, it should be possible to see why culprits spring up from the social soil,
06:35the social springboard every now and then.
06:40You see who are we?
06:44You are a teenager, you said you are a political science student, right?
06:48Yes sir.
06:50Right.
06:51What does your batch in general want?
06:53Don't give me specifics.
06:55What do people want from their future?
06:58Sir, they want a UPSC job and then a big villa and then want to get married.
07:11You see that's the social philosophy.
07:17I want a life in which I will be able to enjoy all the goodies.
07:26And given the way we have evolved the human body, both the sexes principally the male counts
07:40the female body amongst the foremost goodies of life.
07:48Yes.
07:50From a very young age, you are indoctrinated into believing that life exists so that it
07:55can be relished.
07:59What is the purpose of life?
08:02Have as many opportunities of pleasure as possible.
08:10And to a young man, when I say young I don't mean 15 only, even 45 is young.
08:22As long as you have sufficient testosterone, in some way you are young.
08:31To a young man, it's about having pleasure and the female body by dint of evolution is a
08:44very important source of pleasure.
08:47Very important.
08:49Now if you can have that pleasure in a legal way, in a safe and clean way, wonderful.
08:54That safe and clean way is by way of marriage, by way of marriage.
09:01But if you cannot have it that way, then there would always be, a lot of people will be prepared
09:11to act the victim in their own eyes and attack women.
09:19They say, you see, having pleasure is my birthright.
09:23And I am not able to get a sufficient quantity of pleasure.
09:31Everybody is having fun.
09:33Why should I be deprived?
09:37Look at that one.
09:38Look at that one.
09:40If you all are making merry, why should I be a loser?
09:45And if he stays with this thought for long, it will most probably turn into some kind of
09:52criminal aggression.
09:57Have you heard of the term incel?
10:00No, it's an involuntary celibate.
10:10So the man says, I am a victim, I am an involuntary celibate, I want to have sex.
10:15But women are not giving me enough opportunities.
10:19So without my willingness, I have been turned into a celibate.
10:26I am a involuntary celibate.
10:27And women are blamed.
10:28You see, the whole world owes me pleasure.
10:32And when it comes to sexual pleasure, it's the women who owe me a lot.
10:44And if the women won't offer me pleasure, I'll grab it, snatch it, loot it, plunder it,
10:50kill for it.
10:54Because we all exist just to have pleasure, that's what we have been indoctrinated in, no?
11:00Study so that you can get some kind of a plum job.
11:05And if you have a plum job, you'll probably get a plum girl as well.
11:14Loads of money and sex coming your way.
11:20Right?
11:21What else is there?
11:23What else is there?
11:25Ram Krishna Paramhans, that great saint, used to say, that for the common man there are only
11:32two objectives, Kanchan and Kamini.
11:37And even these two are intertwined.
11:43Money and sex, Kanchan is gold, Kamini is a lucrative girl, you get it?
11:56When the entire philosophy, the entire social philosophy is that life exists for the sake
12:04of pleasure, then those who find themselves deprived of pleasure will go to any extent based
12:13on the same philosophy.
12:15Right?
12:16If you can buy great food, buy it.
12:20But if you are unable to buy great food, snatch it.
12:28And that's the reason why you require a powerful law and order system and enforcement machinery.
12:39Because the very philosophy necessitates it.
12:44Philosophy says you must have pleasure.
12:47But not everybody will get equal chances at pleasure.
12:53So what will the deprived ones do?
12:55They will try to break the law.
13:00They will say you know, we too must have it, but we are not getting a fair chance.
13:07We are victims, we are incels.
13:09So we will do something extraordinary.
13:15The underlying philosophy is the same.
13:19The honest man, the so-called honest man earns honestly so that he can consume.
13:31The center of the so-called honest man and the plunderer.
13:43I want to leave you with this question.
13:45Is it any different?
13:48We are supposed to believe that the honest man and the dishonest man are poles apart.
13:56I am asking are they?
13:59Because in the Gita or Sri Krishna verse that we want to know the center of a person.
14:15So let us try to see what all his actions are for.
14:21If you want to see the center a person is operating from, see the desire that his actions are supposed
14:34to fulfill.
14:35So I am an honest man, I am supposedly an honest man and I am working so that I will
14:42get a fat salary and then I will consume.
14:45So what is the end of my honesty?
14:48Consumption.
14:49And I am a thief, a robber, I am a thief, I am a robber.
14:56And I commit robbery so that I can, what is the end of all my lawlessness, consumption.
15:05Now according to Krishna, if both of them are working towards the end of consumption,
15:11they both are much the same at their center.
15:16Everybody is the same.
15:17I am not going to the absurd extent of saying that everybody is a rapist or a murderer.
15:26But please try to understand what I am trying to say.
15:38Such people, if they are not lawbreakers, it is only because of fear.
15:45Otherwise our general life philosophy is such that each one of us is being compelled to consume
15:54at whatever cost possible.
16:00Just that when you are threatened with punishment, then you try to desist somehow or find your way
16:06around the law.
16:09Right now there are no laws on raping the earth.
16:14Right now there is no severe punishment being mitted out.
16:19If you rape the earth, see everybody is raping the earth.
16:23The most respectable people are at the vanguard of the rape of earth.
16:31The day there is some law that starts punishing such rape, a lot of honorable people would withdraw.
16:41But they are withdrawing only because of fear of punishment.
16:45If there is no fear, they will rape the earth.
16:47You know of the whole climate change phenomena.
16:49You know it comes from the rape of the planet.
16:53You know how all the species are getting extinct.
16:56You know of biodiversity loss.
16:58You know of the various ecological disasters.
17:00You know how they can be very literally called as the rape of the planet.
17:09And the most respectable people are at the forefront committing such rape, are they not?
17:17Because this rape is enmeshed in our general philosophy, in our general thought.
17:31Remove all fear of punishment and then look at the lawlessness that will rage on the streets.
17:40There are those who are so afraid that they won't take the law in their hands.
17:45And there are those who are so smart that they break the law and yet don't get caught.
17:53And then there is the third category that commits a crime and also gets caught.
18:02These are the ones we denounce as rape.
18:12Some estimates say that the number of unreported cases in India is probably up to 40 times more
18:19than what is reported.
18:25And probably a majority of the unreported cases are taking place within the household.
18:35Some 89%.
18:36And majority of the cases taking place within the household are taking place on the conjugal
18:41bed.
18:43It is married to the husband, the wife.
18:51And the husband is a very respectable fellow I tell you, is he not?
18:56He could be a college professor.
19:00He could be a white collared worker.
19:03He could be a member of the parliament.
19:09He could be a police officer.
19:14He might be the recipient of some national award even.
19:21So, rape is all prevalent, obviously those who inflict that kind of suffering on a human
19:34being on a fellow human being must be caught and punished as harshly as possible.
19:43But let that not comfort us into believing that are isolated incidences.
20:02As long as there is the philosophy of pleasure at whatever cost, rape in all its forms will
20:11keep happening.
20:16And if you do not find happening somewhere, chances are either the law is very strict or
20:26the chaps are too smart.
20:35Law does not need to be just the social law.
20:40It could even be the religious law.
20:43If you do all those bad things, then you will rot in hell.
20:49And that makes the man so terrified, he starts calling all the women as his sisters.
21:03It starts relying on , rather.
21:09All women are my sisters except the , we know of the extent of internet data that
21:23is just , what does that tell you of that the need to consume the female body.
21:39To some extent that need is biological, but to a much greater extent that need is artificially
21:48bloated by the general philosophy of the day.
21:54You exist to consume, there is a beautiful couplet by Saint Kabir comes to my mind.
22:10He says, you know, it is a comparison between the biological urge to have sex versus the social
22:20thought, the social construct of sex.
22:26He says, Kami Kutta Teen Din Anatar Rahe Udaas, he says and Kutta here stands for the biological
22:39kingdom, the animal kingdom, the animal kingdom, all the living beings except man.
22:46He says, the dog becomes sexually active only in its period of heat.
22:53And that period does not last long, apart from that period the dog remains indifferent to
23:01the matter of sex.
23:03A Kami Nar Kutta Sada Chaitu Bara Maas, Kami Kutta Teen Din Anatar Rahe Udaas, Kami Nar Kutta
23:14Sada Chaitu Bara Maas, man is a dog throughout the year, wagging his tongue, sniffing.
23:31The rear sides of possible victims, it is not biological, it is not biological, biological
23:45is three days, euphemistically three days, remaining 362 days is social, it is about what
23:54you are being taught, it is not really your bodily urge, it is a mental thing.
24:03This sex that we want so much in abundance is not so much a need of the body, it is a need
24:08of the mind.
24:10Because we are being constantly told, this sex is important, you must have pleasure and the
24:19female body is a great source of pleasure.
24:23Look at how we are sexualizing the female body constantly.
24:28Go to media, social media, especially social media, even if you go in a normal way, in an
24:34asexual way, spend 10 minutes on Instagram and your thoughts would turn in a sexual direction.
24:45You are being forcibly sexually energized, activated, triggered, it is a thought.
25:03Unless we change that thought, I am afraid we will have to live through the pain of seeing
25:09more such incidents, anything more on that?
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