Women's bondage and liberation || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Women are getting educated and empowered and everything and are choosing to sit at home.

00:07 And when they were not so educated and not so empowered, empowered within quotes, they

00:11 were actually going out to work.

00:13 Now why is this happening?

00:17 This is so counterintuitive and mind boggling, is it not?

00:21 How is it possible that women with all the opportunities available to them today, with

00:25 all the education that is available to them today, qualified women and knowledgeable women,

00:32 they are opting to sit at home.

00:33 What is happening?

00:36 What is happening is that the husband's income has increased and the husband and the wife

00:42 mutually decide that now that you are earning enough, why do I go out?

00:50 And this is a mutual decision, mind you.

00:52 Okay, I was working for three years post marriage, but now that the baby has come, why do I need

01:00 to work anymore?

01:02 Or I take a break from work to take care of the baby and I think that I will return after

01:08 a year and I never return.

01:10 Because the home is such a comfortable place.

01:13 Let's face it.

01:16 The home is such a comfortable place, especially if there is sufficient money at home.

01:24 We might say that the labour participation rate will increase if there is more security

01:34 in the workplace, if the workplace conditions are made more favourable for women and those

01:39 arguments do hold some weight, I fully agree.

01:43 I agree that some women do not go to work because workplaces are unsafe or because workplaces

01:48 are not paying them enough or there is discrimination at workplace so some women are not going to

01:53 work.

01:54 But tell me, was there lesser discrimination in 1985?

01:59 Then how is it possible that more and more women, educated women, empowered women are

02:04 opting to sit at home?

02:08 This is again the Prakritic tendency.

02:13 What does Mother Prakriti tell you?

02:16 She tells you that the purpose of your life is relaxation and consumption.

02:23 Now if relaxation and consumption are happily, coolly available at home, why work?

02:29 And that's the same thing that even a man would do.

02:33 Say, somebody comes and puts 100 crore in your bank account.

02:39 There would be many amongst you who might decide to opt out of this program and just

02:43 sit and lead a happy life.

02:47 Intellectually if you think about it, you might not agree.

02:49 You will say, "No, no, no, I am not like that."

02:53 But when it happens, when you know that you have easy access to comfortable money, then

03:02 there is no incentive to work.

03:05 I am not saying that is the case with all women.

03:08 But increasingly a large cross-section of women are following this route and it is a

03:19 very, very dangerous route.

03:26 How do you change this situation?

03:28 By changing the thought that consumption is the purpose of life.

03:36 That lying down on the bed, munching expensive fries and watching Netflix is the highest

03:44 pleasure that life can give you.

03:47 Obviously, wearing diamond jewellery.

03:51 Can you imagine?

03:53 Now if you have been trained to think that this is the pinnacle of life, a diamond bracelet,

04:00 an expensive bed, wonderful air conditioning, a large room full of amenities, a 200 inch

04:09 TV and you are watching the spicy program of your choice.

04:17 Many of us would celebrate at this prospect, no?

04:20 Wish life were like this.

04:22 This is hell.

04:24 This is not the kind of life to be desired.

04:29 This exactly is the picture of hell.

04:31 Hell is where you don't have to work.

04:36 Hell is where you don't have any purpose to life.

04:40 Any purpose worth exerting yourself for, worth laying down your life for, that is hell.

04:50 More and more, media, education, the entire culture is feeding this into our mind that

05:00 you exist just to be happy.

05:02 And where does happiness come from?

05:05 More and more consumption.

05:07 More furniture, a bigger car, five houses, a foreign vacation.

05:14 We are being told that we exist not for our liberation but for consumption.

05:20 And if consumption can be somehow available for free, then why work at all?

05:25 Because consumption is anyway the end purpose.

05:28 It's just that the things that are going to be available to you for consumption, they

05:34 never come for free.

05:36 They come at the cost of your entire life.

05:40 And being a woman, you know very well why somebody would give you easy access to his

05:46 money and his property.

05:47 You know that, don't you?

05:50 It's the body that is being sold for the money.

05:56 That kind of life is despicable.

05:58 That is worse than hell, I say.

06:01 Are you getting?

06:06 What kind of liberation can be there if you are dependent on somebody else even for your

06:11 physical survival?

06:17 What kind of freedom is possible?

06:18 If you don't have even two rupees of your own and then you say, you know, his money

06:22 is my money.

06:29 So if you want to change this situation, if you really want more women to come out and

06:34 make a mark in life, then you have to first of all challenge the overarching philosophy,

06:43 the dominant narrative of this day.

06:47 It is a very very poisonous narrative.

06:50 Capitalistic consumerism.

06:53 Have money, consume.

06:54 Have money, consume.

06:56 It puts no emphasis on right work.

06:59 In fact, it says that you are in the greatest position if you can consume a lot without

07:07 having to exert even a little.

07:12 That is the reason why everybody wants to have very nefarious sources of money.

07:20 Because ultimately, it's the money and the consumption that counts, not the source of

07:25 money.

07:26 How does it matter where the money is coming from?

07:28 I can lie, cheat, kill, murder.

07:32 I should get something to consume.

07:35 I can sell my life provided the buyer feeds me with gold.

07:49 Challenge this narrative.

07:52 Otherwise this narrative will keep more and more women at home.

08:00 Because the economy is progressing and men are getting richer.

08:12 And as you get richer, you want to indulge in certain luxuries.

08:19 One of the luxuries is keep the woman permanently at home.

08:22 It's a luxury of life.

08:25 I keep my girl at home.

08:26 She is always available at my beck and call.

08:30 If she goes out, who knows what may happen.

08:33 She may taste freedom, she may taste success of her own.

08:37 She may develop a life of her own.

08:39 And who knows, if she goes out, she may actually go away from me.

08:42 So it is great that she stays at home.

08:44 I will provide for her.

08:45 I will give her whatever she needs.

08:49 Anyway the property remains mostly in the male's name.

08:54 You very well know that women own less than 3% of the world's assets.

09:03 They don't own anything.

09:04 They are just given something.

09:06 Why do you want to adjust to this situation?

09:10 Do you want to?

09:13 Do you want to be given something on a weekly or monthly basis from somebody else's bank

09:19 account?

09:20 The property belongs to somebody else.

09:22 But he says, "Whenever you will ask me something darling, I will give it to you."

09:27 Is this an honourable situation?

09:30 Yes.

09:32 Unfortunately more and more Indian women are falling for it because in absence of any kind

09:39 of wisdom, it is the pop philosophy that is ruling our minds.

09:45 We have no Vedanta in our life.

09:48 We have nothing called wisdom literature in our life.

09:53 Then what is the philosophy that rules our mind?

09:57 It is the philosophy that comes to us from social media, from television.

10:01 When you are watching a commercial or when you are watching a movie or anything that

10:06 you are watching, it is not merely a picture or a video or an audio.

10:14 It is a philosophical package.

10:17 And when you are watching that, you do not even know that you are actually buying into

10:22 that philosophical package.

10:25 Apparently, it is just the shape of the woman on Instagram and that's what you are keenly

10:31 watching, right?

10:32 It's good fun.

10:33 It's not just the shape of the woman's body in that post.

10:38 It is a philosophy that you have bought into and it's a very toxic philosophy.

10:43 But we do not come to know of that in that moment because in that moment, under the impact

10:52 of lust and ignorance, our discretion takes a backseat.

11:00 There is so much glamour on the screen, how will you even know that you are being indoctrinated?

11:06 To know that you are being indoctrinated, you need to be conscious.

11:09 And the first thing that media does is that it makes you unconscious with songs, with

11:15 all the spice.

11:19 And when you are unconscious, then you can absorb anything, anything.

11:25 And that which you absorb becomes your life.

11:26 Thank you.

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