It is our animal tendency to be territorial and to really want to control the other gender — so that we can maximize our own pleasure. When you own something, then there is a sense of security and that's why men want to control women's sexuality. You can dispel that by understanding that you can have no lasting pleasure by owning anything — including a person of the other gender.
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Ankit Tyagi: I was just going through one of your books, and this is the new edition of the “Bhagavad Gita”. And there are some very interesting thoughts that you have put in this book, though you quote Gita and then of course your interpretation — but they are quite, you know, apparent in the current context as well.
I want to start with one, and then I will bring you to a question. I'm quoting from a page — from page 60 of this book — which says: "What else does Arjuna believe in — “Women as property?" It's a very patriarchal mindset when he says that, you know, women should not be allowed to mingle with people from the so-called lower class — as if women cannot decide on their own, as if Arjuna — that's what you — this is what you are saying — “as if Arjuna is the great and the final patriarch on whom rests the responsibility to protect women's chastity and minds.”
I want to probe you on this because you've written this. Isn't it very contextualized in today's terms as well? Men find it very hard to give up some sort of ownership of women even after they move on, even after a relationship does not work out, even after the woman does not want to give you any sense of that ownership.
