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ट्रांसजेंडर लोगों पर विवाद (परलैंगिंक/बाईजेंडर/किन्नर/हिजड़े) || आचार्य प्रशांत, वेदांत महोत्सव(2022)
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Kanchan and Kamini
Body-Consciousness
Transgender
Shri Ramakrishna
Identity
Social Values
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the transgender community by quoting Shri Ramakrishna, who used to say that the fundamental tendency of a human being throws them in only two directions. For a human, only two things become important: wealth and sex. A person gives value and importance to these two things and carries them throughout their life. The speaker explains that 'Kanchan' means money and 'Kamini' means sex. Whether it's today or 150 years ago, these are the only two things that become the life of a common person. We don't understand anything more important than these. He connects this to the issue of transgender individuals. When someone is born with a special gender, who can be called neither male nor female, this becomes a very special matter for us. This is because, for us, a person's identity is their gender, their body. We don't see their intelligence, their knowledge, or their wisdom; we are not concerned with their other skills. Our primary concern is their gender. Since gender is so important to us, we have made them special. In turn, they leverage this specialness to earn money. You have made them special based on their body, and they use that very body to earn money. This is the whole game. The entire game of humanity is limited to these two things: sex and money. Acharya Prashant states that the entire social system would be turned upside down if we started evaluating a person based on their knowledge and virtues, rather than their body and money. Many people who are sitting on thrones would fall, and many people who should be on top would rise. Society gives respect to these two things: money and the body. And often, if you have one, you get the other. Those who have money can buy bodies, and those who have bodies can get money because of them. The speaker urges us to learn to see a person as consciousness, not as a body, and especially not just as a gender. What does it matter what their gender, age, name, or religion is? What matters is the quality of their consciousness. We should evaluate them on that basis.