Acharya Prashant addresses a question about a verse attributed to Shri Adi Shankaracharya, which states that a woman is the main gateway to hell. He affirms that the statement is absolutely true but requires understanding its context and deeper meaning. At the first level, he explains that scriptures do not just state truths but offer remedies and solutions for specific problems. This particular statement was addressed to Acharya Shankar's young male disciples, who were in their twenties and often distracted by lust. For someone who looks at a woman with lust, reducing her from a conscious being to mere flesh, that lustful gaze itself is hell. Hell is not in the woman but in the lustful perspective of the viewer who reduces a consciousness to a body. At a deeper, spiritual level, Acharya Prashant explains that the term 'Nari' (woman) represents 'Prakriti' (nature, the body), while 'Nar' or 'Purusha' represents consciousness. In this sense, the consciousness of every being, male or female, is 'Purusha,' and the body of every being is 'Stri' (female/Prakriti). Therefore, the statement "Woman is the gateway to hell" means that the body itself is the gateway to hell. A body-centric life, where one is identified with the body, is hell. Both men and women must be saved from this body-identification. The challenge is greater for women because patriarchal society has conditioned them to believe their body is their asset or weapon, not their bondage. A lustful man's self-interest is served by encouraging a woman to adorn herself to be more provocative. This is a deception. The body is neither an asset nor a weapon; it is a useless thing. If it is treated as a weapon, one can never go beyond it. The modern idea of using the body as a tool for hunting or achieving goals is a trap, just as the old idea of the body being a property to be preserved was. Both are forms of bondage.