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स्त्रियाँ श्मशान जाएँगी तो मासिक चक्र खराब हो जाएगा? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2024)
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Death
Liberation
Women's Rights
Superstition
Body Consciousness
Kabir Saheb
Shri Krishna
Vedanta
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Acharya Prashant dismisses the pseudo-scientific and superstitious reasons often cited to prevent women from visiting cremation grounds, such as claims about menstrual cycles or "infected atoms." He argues that these are baseless excuses used to maintain control over women. He emphasizes that such claims should be ignored or treated as outdated myths rather than being given any intellectual respect. He explains that the restriction is actually a tool for enslavement. By keeping women away from the cremation ground, they are kept away from the ultimate truth of life—death. Death reveals the falsity of worldly attachments and the reality of the body as a temporary vessel. Those who wish to keep women as "bodies" or "objects" for male consumption and service do not want them to realize this liberating truth. Acharya Prashant highlights that true spiritual figures like Shri Krishna, Buddha, Kabir Saheb, and Guru Nanak Dev Ji were friends of women's liberation. He contrasts this with a segment of society that uses religion to re-establish dominance over women. He points out how society encourages women to focus excessively on their physical appearance through cosmetics while neglecting their intellectual and spiritual growth. Regarding death rituals, he clarifies that liberation is a state to be achieved while living, not after death. He criticizes the attachment to traditional cremation methods that cause pollution and the reluctance to donate organs. He advocates for simple, environmentally friendly disposal of the body and encourages seeing the body as a resource rather than an object of attachment.