00:00You have inflated the issue of sex much, much beyond its worth.
00:06You have told the woman and also probably the man
00:09that sex is a very big and sensitive thing, you see.
00:13You know Phoolam Devi, right?
00:14I was just watching an interview.
00:16The interviewer asked her, what is your desire now?
00:18He said, God, make me a goat, a cow, an ant, anything in next life,
00:23but don't make me a woman.
00:26All my life, I never looked at anybody else.
00:28Now, I'm not suggesting that you go out and look at 20 other people.
00:32How does that become something so big?
00:34I would rather want to know how truthful has been your life.
00:37I would want to know how deep your submission to the truth has been.
00:41That's the measure of virtuosity.
00:47By turning something related to the reproductive process
00:51into something so big,
00:55you have inflated the issue of sex much, much beyond its worth.
01:13You have told the woman and also probably the man
01:16that sex is a very big and sensitive thing, you see.
01:21Now, the entire life, the woman
01:26would be in some way
01:30giving sex
01:32disproportionate importance.
01:36And that disproportionate importance
01:45manifests itself
01:47as both
01:49submission and abstinence.
01:55Sex is such an important thing.
02:01And as a woman, it's my duty
02:03to provide this important favor to my lord when he so desires.
02:12Because it is important.
02:15It is not only important, it is something governed by
02:18culture and rules and tradition, forces outside of me.
02:22So, I don't really have agency there, you know.
02:28So, when the lord comes and says,
02:29disrobe
02:30because such is my will.
02:35I will follow my
02:36Patni dharma.
02:38How can a human being
02:48live
02:49freely
02:51if sex becomes such a big thing in the mind?
03:04Hmm?
03:04How virtuous are you
03:09as a wife
03:11that is determined by
03:12your sexual conduct?
03:16What nonsense!
03:23And by giving so much importance to sex,
03:25indirectly you have told her
03:27you are a body.
03:28And that is the entire purpose of the ego, no?
03:31Aham, they ask me.
03:32I am the body.
03:34You might be an idiot in all other ways.
03:42But if you have
03:45been sexually
03:51obedient,
03:54then you are considered virtuous.
03:56No?
04:00That's the entire
04:02claim to fame.
04:04You know,
04:07all my life,
04:08I never looked at anybody else.
04:19No, I'm not suggesting that you go out and look at 20 other people.
04:23But whether you do look at someone
04:25or you don't look at someone,
04:27how does that become something so big?
04:34I would rather want to know how truthful has been your life?
04:41Instead of your submission to your lords,
04:44I would want to know
04:45how deep your submission to the truth has been.
04:48That's the measure of virtuosity.
04:59But the Indian woman has been told, you know,
05:01doesn't matter if you are illiterate,
05:04doesn't matter if you don't know a thing,
05:06doesn't matter if you can't even drive a scooty,
05:08doesn't matter if you can't buy vegetables,
05:11doesn't matter if you do not know at all what's happening in the world,
05:15no idea of sciences,
05:17no hold on arts.
05:26Ask to draw something,
05:28the most you can draw is a blank.
05:29nothing in your life.
05:36But still she claims
05:38to be
05:40pious
05:42and virtuous.
05:45The very image of goodness.
05:50Why?
05:52I never got into any sexual misconduct,
05:56whatever that means.
05:59I have considered my husband as the Lord.
06:17And I will certainly be
06:20salvaged.
06:27You know, Phoolem Devi, right?
06:29I was just
06:32watching an interview.
06:35And there was something very poignant, she said.
06:42The interviewer asked her,
06:43what is your desire now?
06:45She said,
06:50God,
06:51make me a goat, a cow, an ant, anything in next life,
06:55but don't make me a woman.
06:56And in the same interview, she said,
07:11now that she got elected, right?
07:15She became a political representative, you know of that.
07:17She said,
07:19I feel ashamed when these people bring me papers and I can't read properly.
07:23But now I am learning in great haste.
07:26And I want to be able to read everything and decide on my own and be a good representative.
07:34And given an opportunity, even at the fair end of her life, she was trying to be so much more in terms of reading, writing, understanding, talking, discussing, making policies, taking decisions, she was trying to be so much more.
07:55But in the initial part of her life, you know what happened to her, right?
08:02Raped repeatedly.
08:07Because that's how we look at women and we say, this is our culture.
08:14And then to hide the very obscenity of it, we say we worship women as goddesses.
08:21So, really, had we really worshiped them as goddesses, we would have looked at them in such vulgar and sexual terms, in all kinds of ways possible, including menstruation.
08:36And I will return to the first thing I started with, let nobody say that this is India, I love India, India is beautiful.
08:58And these idiots have no right to call themselves Indians, India must be reclaimed.
09:13If you are proud of being an Indian, then you have to understand the essence of India.
09:23India, you will have to go back to the roots and you will have to give India her due.
09:31These are two things that are being repeatedly abused today, India and Sanatan.
09:45Whatever nonsense you want to peddle, you can do in the name of Bharat and Sanatan.
09:50And both these words need to be reclaimed.
09:55Because India is beautiful.
09:59And Sanatan is holy.
10:02And they have to be restored to their beautiful and holy places.
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