A questioner expresses her difficulty in sharing Acharya Prashant's teachings with her mother, who does not understand Hindi and is resistant to such discussions. The mother dismisses her daughter's attempts, stating she doesn't understand these things and prefers to be left alone or watch comedy videos. When invited to a session, the mother replied that she only wants to meet God and her family. Acharya Prashant humorously suggests sending her comedy videos instead. Acharya Prashant explains that the issue is not the language barrier, as someone who speaks Rajasthani would understand Hindi, but rather a deep-seated resistance. He empathizes with the questioner's feeling of helplessness, sharing that even people in his own house do not listen to him and that one has to live with this pain. He states that when the time is right, it will happen, and there is nothing more that can be done. He suggests that the possibility of her mother listening might improve if someone else, like a friend, were to share the videos with her. The speaker elaborates that the mother's responses, such as wanting to meet only her family and God, are not her original thoughts but are products of societal conditioning. This conditioning stems from 'Smriti' literature (a body of Hindu texts that are remembered and transmitted, considered secondary to the 'Shruti'), which has been distorted over time. He explains that women have been taught that their family is everything and have been discouraged from seeking knowledge. According to these distorted interpretations, a woman's only path to heaven is through serving her husband, and it is even considered a sin for a guru to impart knowledge to a woman, which would lead them both to hell. This conditioning is so pervasive that it has become ingrained in the culture. Acharya Prashant then discusses another group of people: those who reject religion entirely because they only see its corrupted, superstitious form. They use the rotten parts of religion as a reason to discard it completely, without seeking its true essence found in 'Shruti' (the revealed texts like the Vedas and Upanishads). He points out the irony that in the land of Vedanta, the Indian woman, who should be strong, has been made weak. He concludes by saying that the software of the mind has been corrupted with bugs, and the work of the foundation is to restore it to its factory settings and install a new, pure code.
