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Why have some sages advised caution against 'woman'? || Acharya Prashant, on Sri Ramakrishna (2017)
Scriptures and Saints
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Shri Ramakrishna
Prakriti
Purush
Ego
Lust
Materialism
Salvation
Kabir Saheb
Description

Acharya Prashant clarifies the teachings of Shri Ramakrishna regarding the terms 'woman' and 'gold'. He explains that when Shri Ramakrishna uses the word 'woman', he is not vilifying a specific gender but is referring to 'prakriti' or the material world. The warning is directed at the individualized ego's tendency to seek salvation and peace in the material, sensual world, a tendency known as lust. This attraction to flesh and material riches is fundamentally the same, as both represent the ego's false hope of finding completion in something external and visible.