Fear, social conditioning, and painful memories often shape how people live and make choices. True growth begins by questioning inherited beliefs, refusing to remain trapped by past wounds, and acting from understanding rather than conformity. What appears to be sacrifice is often just the abandonment of conditioned habits. Freedom comes not from external systems, but from the courage to see clearly, learn, and move beyond fear.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya ji. Yeah, I have heard your speeches a lot. You know, for one year I was listening to all the long videos on YouTube, and then at the beginning of this year I joined your Gita community.
I used to hear a lot about, you know, as a woman we need to go out, we need to explore, we need to travel alone. But Acharya ji, from childhood, what I have experienced, at the age when I was studying in third standard, I experienced the worst thing, not from a teacher, not from someone outside, not from a relative, but from some same classmates, the same guys, three guys actually. At that time I was not aware of what was happening, what these guys were doing and all that. But, you know, the fear that comes within us, wherever we travel, whomever we see, whomever we listen to, we always have that thing in us. So that carries out, and that not only carries out in looking at myself or in my own decisions.
When I look at some other girl child, or any other girl child, I get fear whether she is safe, whether she is in a safe environment. Because this thing which I suffered at my school age, I was a kid then. It was not at the age of social media. It was not where the wrong information, which we say now is easily accessible to children maybe. And even whenever I speak to children before, like when I was studying in 10th standard or anything like that, the things they used to talk to me about actually made me afraid of what they are getting exposed to. Today, I mean, at that time I remember very well that they were not using cell phones. So that is something because of which I cannot believe any girl child to be safe or, you know, going forward to be safe.
