If the woman really understands herself and therefore her choices, why would there be a need to be affected by others? But we bother. That happens because we have borrowed our sense of self from history, tradition, and society. When dependence is glorified, be it physical, financial, emotional, or psychological, it definitely coexists with bondage. If you feel bulldozed or forced, there is only one reason: you’re not walking on your own legs. Go out and earn. No price is too big for freedom.
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Questioner: Good afternoon. My name is Sobia Sheikh, and my question is that women are often labeled. For example, if she dresses up or she wears makeup, then she is judged unfairly, and they don't understand her individuality. So why is it that women are labeled so often, and how can one rise above these labels?
Acharya Prashant: You see, when you are saying that women are labeled, you're talking of others, right? So there is somebody out there who's labeling the woman, right? And the woman is now at least slightly concerned or disturbed, and that's why she's raising this question, right?
Questioner: Because whatever a woman does, her choices, whether it's about her career, her clothes, her makeup, anything, it's all criticized. So at some point, it affects her, right?
Acharya Prashant: So labeled by others, criticized by others. And you now rightly put your finger on the woman's inner condition, you said it affects her. So probably that is the central issue and the central weakness that enables and emboldens others to pass judgments and psychologically and physically dominate her for centuries. Are you getting it? I mean, if the woman or any person, irrespective of gender, really understands herself and therefore her choices, why would there be a need to be affected by others? Then the very basis of this question would become needless.
