Acharya Prashant advises to be wary of emotions, stating that for women, emotions are the biggest hassle. He explains that women often cry and lack control or understanding over their emotions, which leads to their enslavement. Anyone can mislead and control them by manipulating their emotions, making them like cows. He observes that due to this emotional nature, women have not been able to lead in any field, being less visible in politics, art, and science, and are mostly confined to their homes. This situation, he asserts, is largely due to emotions, as women remain emotional and are unable to achieve much else in life. He quotes a poem, "Oh, helpless woman, this is your story: milk in your bosom and tears in your eyes," to illustrate that women seem to possess only these two things. When asked how to overcome this, he explains that the problem is that women consider their emotions their strength and thus nurture them. He agrees that women give importance to their emotions, display them, and use them to get things done, often by getting sulky, angry, or sad. He expresses both a complaint and sadness for women, stating that they are the cause of their own suffering. Women, he says, consider emotions their weapon and their body their capital. They decorate their bodies and operate on emotions, thinking they have achieved something great. He identifies the body (tan) and emotions (man) as the two factors that have historically enslaved women, linking them back to the poem's imagery of "milk in the bosom" (body) and "tears in the eyes" (emotions/mind). Acharya Prashant acknowledges that women possess natural qualities like patience and less ambition, which are great virtues. If a woman remains composed, she can soar high. However, she becomes a prisoner of her body and mind. He adds that it has been in men's vested interest to keep women as just bodies, so they praise a woman's physical appearance. When a woman is simple and restrained, men don't praise her, but they applaud an attractive, well-dressed woman. This makes the woman feel her value has increased, not realizing she is being exploited. This cycle continues as she uses her body to attract her husband, which only instigates lust in him, and then she complains about him being a beast. He concludes by using the metaphor of the hunter and the hunted, advising not to try to hunt, or you will become the prey. In this game, the hunter gets hunted. Women become victims at the gross level because they try to hunt at the subtle level.
