Marriage vs Career: What Vedanta Says About Women's Freedom
Should women choose marriage or career? Society often forces this question, but Vedanta asks a deeper one: are these choices truly yours? This discussion explores family pressure, the biological clock, gender equality, and social conditioning, revealing why freedom, consciousness, and self-awareness matter more than living according to expectations or traditional roles.
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Questioner: First of all, I want to thank you. You are one of the reasons I'm studying here. So, sir, there is a certain age. Before this, especially for women, even boys have faced it, but especially for women. Before that age, all our achievements are considered good. But after some age, our main achievement is marriage. It's considered as...
Like, I come from a society, or even every society. Like, here I am, this is the same thing. Achievements, academic achievements, are main. But when I go back to that society, which is my Truth, which society I love, now that society ascribes a woman's achievement to marriage. If a woman is doing a job, she's not married, and she does not have a child, she is considered worthless. And someone who...
Acharya Prashant: How many lives do you have? We are talking of rebirth here so many times. How many lives do you have?
Questioner: Like, for me, the one life.
