Men vs Women || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Patriarchy - the role and suffering of men || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00We take feminism as a bit of men versus women thing, women trying to get away from oppression

00:10and being victims, victims of men.

00:13So we take men as the victimizers, right?

00:16Apparently, obviously, men are the ones who exploit and oppress.

00:20But if you go a little deeper into it, as Vedanta encourages you to, you will say, no,

00:25it's not that men are oppressing women.

00:29There is a common enemy and the name of that common enemy is ignorance.

00:34It is because of ignorance that men continue to be men and women continue to be women.

00:40The fact is that as human beings, your nature is pure consciousness.

00:45Why do you call yourself man?

00:46Why do you call yourself a woman?

00:48Why have you made the body so important for yourself?