If you leave yourself weak and vulnerable, you are submitting to the ecosystem of rape. What’s worse? It won’t even be reported. The first thing is: empower yourself through education, through exposure, through wisdom. When it comes to sexual urges, no lessons of morality really succeed. You’ll just be left complaining to the benevolent power up there, “You know, I’m such a pious woman. Why was I violated?” Because that’s how it happens in the jungle. That’s the answer. That’s all.
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Questioner: Sir, in your book (Truth Without Apology) you have mentioned a quote that says, “Society’s concern for women suddenly peaks during headline crimes, but real change demands attention to the silent suffering of their everyday life.”
So I have a question based on that.
Most of the women who get raped, it is not by people from outside. It is mostly from within their houses. The rapes that are reported are committed by close relatives of the women. We do not want women to leave the houses. We restrict them from leaving the houses. We tell them to stay within boundaries. But are they really safe even within those boundaries?
Acharya Prashant: You have to explore this thing in its entirety. You see, rape is not an incident. Rape is not a particular little episode. Rape is a continuity. And that’s what I’ve addressed in this chapter.
