In the jungle, the woman existed only to breed — not to be an artist, scientist, explorer, or thinker. Internally, women still live in this bondage today, driven by these primal instincts, seeking security and protection, even if they appear externally empowered. And internal bondage is far worse than external. This is where wisdom literature becomes her true rescue—when she knows herself, she can use her body for liberation.
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Acharya Prashant: What does the body want? Attachment? Possession? And when it cannot have what it wants, there is anger and jealousy and such things. And especially, the woman's body has been raised or evolved in a way that there is a lot of insecurity. Because the woman's historical, practical, natural role was to raise kids, and in the jungle, that's a very important role. In fact, that's the central role of one's life.
We are talking about the woman. If you look at the jungle, the woman exists to be pregnant, the woman exists to breed, that's how it happens in the jungle, right? The woman does not exist to become an artist, a painter, a dancer, a scientist, an explorer, a thinker, or a meditator. No, in the jungle, she exists just to survive and to give birth. So, she will eat, she will seek physical and mental protection and security, and she will seek a mate who can impregnate her.
Now, that is continuing even today, and if that continues, no empowerment makes any sense. Even if you change all the institutions, the external ones — we have talked of the religious one, the educational one, the legal one, we have talked of the role of media, and so many other things. Even if you take care of all those institutions, the woman would still not be free.
