Acharya Prashant explains that overcoming the impulse to be distracted by women involves two things: a decision and the subsequent practice and training. First, one must decide not to be a person who loses control upon sensing a female body. However, merely deciding is not enough. One must then put in effort, be disciplined, and have the patience to bear many defeats. This is because the body's conditioning is ancient, perhaps millions of years old, while a new resolution is very recent. The body has been salivating at other bodies for eons, so it will take discipline and practice to tell the body who is the boss. When asked if men are worse off sexually, Acharya Prashant agrees, stating that for survival, both genders have certain advantages. While men may have more physical strength, women possess more self-control. He illustrates this by noting that women are not seen scratching themselves in public, unlike men who are often fiddling or scratching. He also observes that in his long sessions, men are far more likely to visit the restroom, whereas women, having been conditioned to sit still, exhibit greater physical discipline. Women, he says, have bladders too, but they have self-control. Acharya Prashant introduces the principle of duality, asserting that the exploiter and the exploited are the same. One cannot enslave another without being enslaved oneself. If men have been unfair to women, women have been avenging themselves on men. In this dynamic, there are no victims because everyone is a victim. An injustice done to another is first an injustice to oneself. This is the Law of Karma, where deeds receive their deserved return instantaneously, even if the consequence is not immediately perceptible. The violence done to the exploiter is existential and subtle, unlike the gross, visible violence that might be inflicted on the other. We are often not subtle enough to perceive the immediate suffering that results from our own wrongdoing. He further elaborates that the real exploiter is not the man or the patriarch, but the perpetrator of ignoranceāspiritual ignorance. Both the oppressor and the oppressed are victims of this ignorance, taught to play their respective roles. Therefore, the solution for women's liberation is not feminism but spirituality, as spiritual ignorance is the root of the problem. This ignorance has robbed life of its basic fun, turning the woman into a tasteless specimen. He concludes by explaining that men's and women's paths to liberation differ based on their biological and natural tendencies. The man's way is one of negation and destruction (Neti-Neti), while the woman's way is one of association, needing a symbol or a leader to trust and identify with. This does not imply inferiority but highlights different, suitable paths for liberation.
