Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of India's rising population, stating that overpopulation is not an advantage but the most dastardly crime today. He questions who benefits from a larger population, suggesting it is not even imaginable to think of overpopulation as an advantage. To control this, he proposes both positive and negative measures. The positive measures include better education, medical services, social security, and greater participation of women in the workforce. He emphasizes that these are virtuous goals in themselves, which also have the added benefit of lowering fertility rates. He asserts that when populations are more educated, fertility rates drop. On the negative or disincentivizing side, he suggests that the government should not subsidize people who choose to have more than two children. Conversely, those who decide to have no kids or just one should be given both material and immaterial benefits, such as awards, to set an example. He points out that the government has a significant handle on individual decision-making through financial relationships and should use this to influence choices. He also highlights the need for an agency to educate people on the perils of overpopulation and to challenge long-standing cultural notions. Acharya Prashant strongly links overpopulation to the subjugation of women. He argues that the patriarchal society has placed such a great value on motherhood that women feel their life is wasted if they do not procreate. He describes the notion that a woman's purpose is to have a 'full nest' as a result of cultural conditioning. He states that a woman's life is wasted running after kids, changing diapers, and catering to their animalistic needs, which is not a great investment of her precious and limited time. He contrasts this with other pursuits like sports, travel, reading, and meditation, which are sacrificed for child-rearing. He believes that the more miserable, ignorant, and enslaved women are, the more populations will explode, making women's emancipation the key to population control. A woman, he says, is a human being first, born to be liberated, not just to raise kids. He concludes that while literacy is a contraceptive, wisdom is the best contraceptive, as it helps one realize that there are much higher joys in life, such as knowledge, consciousness, and realization, than the smiling face of a baby.