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कामिनी और मोहिनी: इन दोनों ने पूरी दुनिया नचा रखी है || आचार्य प्रशांत (2023)
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Kamini (Desire/Lust)
Sant Kabir
Nature (Prakriti)
Unconsciousness
Consciousness
Ignorance
Liberation (Mukti)
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Acharya Prashant begins by describing a smiling, unconscious woman adorned with gold, a common image in advertisements. He notes that this image is the same everywhere, whether in Goa, Saharanpur, or Faridabad, suggesting that despite apparent cultural differences, there is no real distinction. He questions why any conscious, sensible person would hang metal in their mouth, neck, nose, or ears, calling it a horrifying thought. He then quotes a couplet from Sant Kabir: "If you want to escape birth and death, then leave the taste of desire. Kabir says, listen, O sadhu, from head to toe, it is full of poison." Acharya Prashant explains that 'Kamini' (desire/lust) is not a specific woman or object, but rather anything or anyone viewed through the lens of desire. It is one's gaze that assigns the name 'Kamini' to something. He illustrates this with examples: a woman is 'Kamini' to a lustful person but a daughter to her father. A sweet is 'Kamini' to a glutton, but to the confectioner who knows how it's made, it is 'Damini' (that which fetches a price), and he would never eat it himself. To see something as 'Kamini', ignorance is essential. This leads to the point that there is more attraction towards strangers, an arrangement by nature to benefit the cycle of procreation. Nature has two functions: one is to increase numbers, like rabbits, and the other is the pursuit of a superman, a god in human form, which is the goal of evolution. Nature's cycle progresses only in unconsciousness, and thus, nature desires unconsciousness to persist. The more unconsciousness there is, the faster nature's work proceeds. The speaker concludes that this is why society and nature have devised many ways to keep women, and also men, unconscious, to ensure the continuation of procreation.