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This video is taken from the "Samvaad" held during the Vedanta session at AIIMS Rishikesh on 27 April 2026.

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00:00Lions, they are just more or less passive security providers to the pack.
00:05The hunting is done by the lioness.
00:08They are not soft-spoken.
00:09But how is it so that among human beings, the woman is necessarily soft?
00:15Soft in voice, soft in expression, soft in emotion, soft to touch.
00:22How? That's womanness.
00:24What does culture do?
00:26It accentuates the womanness by glorifying it.
00:31Look at her.
00:32She is so soft because she is a mother, because she is a wife, or because she is a woman.
00:38If the first thing you say about yourself is, I am a woman, you have started with a lot of
00:45burden.
00:45It's a huge burden to have your first identity as physical.
00:51And if that is there, then the womanness will not leave you.
00:56Liberation from womanness has to be the first thing.
01:00Because that is the place from which all other bondages arise.
01:06The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:11The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:12The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:17The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:18The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:18The womanness is the root of bondage.
01:18The womanness is the root of bondage.
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