Who has taught you to put up with daily abuse and humiliation? We are forcefully made to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman. The only thing that you should never compromise on, is the central purpose of life, and that is liberation. All else is dispensable.
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Acharya Prashant: Why are people afraid to step out of even abusive marriages? The reason is exactly the same as for those who feel compelled to get into marriages. That is the pressure to conform, that is the pressure to belong to the crowd, the fear to not to be labelled abnormal, the urge to not to miss out on something, that has been glamourized as extremely important and central.
Here in India, what are 90-95% of our movies about? Man and woman getting together, right? In some way or the other. Right? So that’s what it is. Obviously, there is the biological urge embedded in the body itself. But much more than that, it is the social norm that, first of all, pushes us into this institution of marriage and then compels us to stay there even if that institution is sapping the very life out of us.
See, don’t we wear what Bollywood does, or Tollywood or whatever, depending on your taste? We are in the South right now. So, we speak the way they do. We even raise our kids the way they teach us to do. They tell us how to handle our maternity. They tell us how to be good parents. They are our teachers, mentors, guides, philosophers, de facto gods. Do we see how much is our life dictated by the forces of entertainment? We spend such a lot of time on avenues of entertainment, that we are bound to fully absorb the values they are giving us.
