Acharya Prashant advises all girls and women to see themselves as separate from their bodies as much as possible. He urges them to stop considering their bodies as their capital, explaining that this idea has been taught to them by men. In reality, it is the man who views a woman's body as capital. A man's imagination is where a woman's body is of great use to him, whether it is useful to her or not. No woman gets aroused by fantasizing about her own body; rather, she is aware of the suffering, filth, and troubles the body brings. A woman knows this better than a man. The speaker finds it incomprehensible why a woman would deceive herself into believing her body is like diamonds and pearls, a notion that is more aligned with a man's perspective. He explains that in a man's mind, a woman's body is like a mine of gems, and he goes crazy over it, not knowing much about women or even himself. The speaker advises women to consider their consciousness, knowledge, experience, courage, intellect, money, and skills as their true assets. The body is a transient thing. A man values a woman's body only as long as she is young; after 10-20 years of youth, the same man will reject her body and look elsewhere. Acharya Prashant questions why women spend so much time decorating their bodies and are so body-identified that they make their body their identity. He advises all women to develop their consciousness and knowledge, and all their higher qualities. The body is a momentary and deceptive thing. As the saints have said, there is no guarantee of the body; it perishes in a moment. The segregation of men and women from birth, including separate schools and rooms, makes women a mysterious and coveted thing for men, fueling their sexual curiosity. Covering up a woman's body only encourages a man's lust. The speaker uses the analogy of a pandit who is convinced by thugs that his calf is a dog; eventually, the pandit, influenced by societal perception, abandons the calf. Similarly, a woman should not evaluate herself through the eyes of the world, because the world will tell her what serves its own interests. The first success is to start seeing oneself through one's own eyes, not the world's. A woman who wants a meaningful and free life should not let the world define her worth. For a woman, an ideal role model is one who does not see her as a body, who has fought for higher things in life, for the sky, for freedom, for creation. Such a person, regardless of gender, is worthy of being an ideal. The speaker refutes the idea that women should become like men for empowerment, as men themselves are not an evolved ideal and are troubled by their own existence. Empowerment for a woman means realizing, "I am not the body, I am consciousness." This requires spiritual strength, the courage to not bow where one shouldn't, and the devotion to bow where one should.
