00:00Sir, I have seen that religion is associated with patriarchy and misogyny.
00:05I had forbidden you from doing that, didn't I, dear?
00:08Please tell me, as a woman, how should I look at religion?
00:11See, the relationship between women and religion has been pretty interesting and mostly tragic.
00:19On one hand, religion, rather core spirituality, is the woman's best friend
00:25because it helps her be liberated from all that which oppresses her.
00:32And it tells her that no price is too big to be paid for liberation.
00:37The best help that self-knowledge and Vedanta extend to women
00:42is that they tell her that being a woman is not her primary identity.
00:47That body identification is the root cause of all kinds of suffering.
00:53And that if you can take your physical self and your mental conditioning lightly,
01:00then it will be very difficult for prakriti and society,
01:05even if it's a very toxic and patriarchal society, to enslave you.
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