Todays educated and financially independent woman says, “I am free,” yet still feels deeply confined within. Why? Because external freedom alone does not dissolve inner conditioning. The old idea of “womanness” still sits at the center of identity. Real liberation begins when one stops seeing oneself merely as a gendered body and starts living as human consciousness first.
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Questioner: Hello sir, myself Vaishnavi, an undergraduate cyber security student. Even though we live in globalized and modernized areas, there are even girl child or women, the freedom they are willing to or they want to, they don’t get it. So my question for you is: what is real freedom? How can one experience it in real life or in daily life?
Acharya Prashant: Beta, let me take you to a context. If it is coming from a student of a very modern discipline at a top global institution like IIT Bombay, freedom in your context cannot be something that others can give you. You already have it. The question is not how much freedom are others willing to give me. The question, rather, is why am I willing to trade away my freedom for petty things?
You have freedom already. Are you not free? You are, you are, and most modern women are. Yes, in India we still have crores of women who are practically very confined, very much in bondage. But the issue of freedom or deprivation is not only something that comes from women who are uneducated and confined to their households. It also comes from very well-educated and high-earning women in metro cities. They also say, “But society does not give us freedom.”
