Acharya Prashant explains that when boys or men are attracted to girls and women, the women might feel it is their strength. However, he cautions that this is not their strength but a great danger. If a young woman, at the age of 16, 18, 20, or 25, finds that she is receiving attention, praise, and sometimes even money simply because her body is beautiful, she loses the reason to develop other qualities within herself and to achieve heights and accomplishments in life. This is a temptation that all women need to be very careful about. A woman might start to think that since her body and face are attractive, she gets everything she wants. She might see men with great achievements lining up for her and wonder what she would do by achieving things herself. She might feel that since highly educated men are bowing before her, she doesn't need to get a high education herself. She might think that since she gets everything based on her looks, she doesn't need to work hard. This kind of temptation can arise, and it is crucial to be cautious against it. The men who are bowing before you and praising you for your body are just hungry for your body. Their praise will not last long. But if you have made real earnings of knowledge, character, strength, and achievements, that real earning will stay with you for life. Do not give too much importance to the attention you get from men, but you can only do that when you do not give too much importance to your own beauty and youth. Worldwide, 80-90% of all cosmetics are bought by women. This is where the danger lies. This is one of the very few, rare fields where women have a dominance over men. In any other field in the world, men will have 80-90% authority, and women will have 5-10%. Whether it's the world's total wealth, parliaments, or top corporate positions, men hold 90% of the power. But in things that enhance beauty, women have 90% participation. This shows a direct relationship: the beauty of the body, which you are talking about, is a great bondage for women. Until a woman moves beyond the bondage of her body's natural beauty, she cannot establish her existence and power in the world. Knowledge is your real power. Your skill is your real power. Your experience is your real power. This is real beauty. The car should be yours, the steering should be in your hands, you should have decided the destination of the car, and you should also have the sense to decide the destination correctly. This is beauty. The beauty of the body is not just about the beauty of the skin. If we are talking about the beauty of the body, then the beauty of the body is also the strength and fitness of the body. Keep the body strong and fit. You should know how to run. Your heels shouldn't be so high that if you run, your ankle twists. You should have strength in your fists to break the face of any powerful man. This is beauty.
