Acharya Prashant addresses the observation that women tend to be more indirect and coy in their communication. He explains that this trait is very biological. From a biological standpoint, the woman's role is to let the man make the move while she tests and verifies him. By letting him do a lot of things, she can gauge his depth and test his substance. Unless he makes various moves, she cannot know who he is. Therefore, she has to be still and let him act, and through his movements, she assesses him. This behavior is not unique to humans but is found in many other species where males display for procreation purposes. In some species, the opposite behavior is observed, but it is still for the purpose of procreation. The speaker clarifies that while there are biological differences, often summarized as "men are from Mars and women are from Venus," these distinctions exist only at the level of the body. The true self is free of conditioning, biology, and social impositions. True freedom lies in striving for this true self, which has great and irresistible power. This freedom is the same for both men and women. We do not need feminism or masculinism; we need liberation from gender identities. Freedom from gender is freedom for both genders; a society cannot have liberated women if the men are not liberated. Acharya Prashant warns against magnifying gender differences, which leads to the creation of a "hyperwoman" and a "hyperman." This is an insane act, like taking the pathogen itself as the medicine. The solution is not for a woman to become more "womanly" or a man more "manly." Using an analogy, he compares a man to a beaker of blue fluid and a woman to a beaker of red fluid. The goal is not to mix them to create a purple or saffron color, but to empty the beakers of their primitive content—the biological and social conditioning. The mind is the beaker, and its content is this conditioning. We must empty the mind, not give it another color. When one is free of the red and blue, one is available to life. When you are full of the red and blue, you have no space for life and just go through the motions like a machine. You are not to suppress your gender; you are to transcend it. The gender remains at its place, the body remains at its place, but you do not allow the body to govern you because you have your own higher, non-physical purpose. If you do not have a goal, the body will provide you with its default goal. The punishment for unwise goal-setting is that the body will happily fill in the space.
