Acharya Prashant explains that to be associated with both masculinity and femininity is to be able to see them together and hence see that both are just one. They sustain each other and cannot stand in isolation. A woman is not always a woman; she becomes a woman the moment she thinks of a man or a man crosses her. Otherwise, she is just consciousness, free of identity. Similarly, a man is simply his attentiveness, but he becomes a man the moment a woman crosses him. In this dynamic, the woman is the more oppressed of the two. Once the revolution for her liberation begins, the man too will be liberated. Just as a woman gives birth to a man, she must also give birth to the freedom of man, as he cannot give birth to his own freedom. Freedom, too, will be born out of woman. This liberation is not happening because the woman remains terribly body-identified. What is called modernity, liberation, or even feminism is unfortunately even more body-centric, though this body-centricity is now a little hidden. The only way to go beyond the body is the way of truth and spirituality. By putting women on a pedestal, you only reinforce their femininity. When you praise the tolerance and adaptability of women as virtues, you ensure they become more feminine, essentially praising their curse. The woman is fettered by her self-imposed problems, and calling her inability to break out a virtue is like praising her hell and wanting her to continue in it. The speaker states that the other gender arises only when you are identified with your own gender, and this partition is a disease. To be a man means to have an active and aggressive ego, which will be overtly violent. To be a woman means to have a passive ego, expressing itself as jealousy and covert violence. In either case, there is violence stemming from a sense of insecurity and incompletion. The man attacks because he thinks he is incomplete, and the woman possesses because she thinks she is incomplete. If the woman can be saved, it is only through true spirituality, which alone can take her out of body identification. Women need to be alright with themselves, not emotionally or biologically dependent on men to complete their identity or name. The man should not be at the center of the woman's world. Let men think of women, but women must be independent of men. A woman should be the user of the car, not the doll in the car. Her assets must be knowledge, strength, exposure, money, and ultimately, Truth, not her physical attributes. She should spend time enriching herself, gaining knowledge, and skilling herself.
