When you are walking on the street why should you be bothered whether somebody is a woman or a man?
Why are you bothered what is in somebody’s pants?
There is no need to go on talking about women’s rights.
We must say human rights and women are part of it that’s all.
It is important the feminine in the world is as important as the masculine in the world.
M M Keeravani: Sadhguruji, what is the quality you find in an Indian woman when compared to the
world women, other countries, what is the best and beautiful quality, one single quality.
Sadhguru: Are you trying to get me into trouble (Laughter/Applauds)?
M M Keeravani: How she is different and how she is greater than when compared to the other
women all over the world (Laughter/Applauds).
Sadhguru: See, I do not know why we are putting only women on the focus.
We are always putting women on the focus because we believe either they can be right or wrong.
And of course men are right. So because we are always right
we are looking whether this is a right kind of woman or the wrong kind of woman.
You must understand, for whatever reasons nature has given a larger responsibility for the woman
in terms of bearing a child and having a profound influence on the child in the early part of child’s life
and when we talk about a child, do not think this is about reproduction.
You and me are here because of that. So our very existence began in a woman’s body,
that is if you are normal birth. I am normal birth.
There are some people who claim they dropped from elsewhere, I have nothing to say about them.
If you are normal birth, our life began in a woman’s body. And today the simple biological factors
of being male or female, we are exaggerating it too much. I am saying, when you are walking on the street
why should you be bothered whether somebody is a woman or a man?
Why are you bothered what is in somebody’s pants? It is not your business.
Only in bathrooms and bedrooms it should matter, nowhere else. In the working places, on the street,
wherever else we are, why should it matter whether somebody is a man or a woman,
why cannot you just treat them as human beings? I think we are excessively focused on this
which is creating a very unhealthy atmosphere. That means we are constantly
over infatuated with body parts. That is why we are going on recognizing people by their gender.
You are not recognizing people by their intelligence, by their capabilities, by their competence
only by their gender (Applauds). It is not a fair way of looking at the world.
For certain aspects of our life gender is important, but for rest of the life how much brains you got is important,
how much capable you are is more important. Gender is only valid in certain relationships.
In rest of the relationships gender should not even come into the picture. Only then there will be equality.
There is no need to go on talking about women’s rights.
We must say human rights and women are part of it that’s all. So about the Indian women,
should I still talk? (Laughter) In this country, for a long time we have nurtured many wonderful things.
But these wonderful things, because of many misunderstandings,
have also taken on very horrendous forms. When I say it has taken on horrendous forms,
many simple things which were done for the protection of the woman, for the well-being of the woman
have become discriminatory over a period of time and taken on very horrendous forms of exploitation.
We must look back and see, why these little things were created.
If we do not address these things, the western world is on a binge because
they want to make male and female equal. It is not necessary to be equal. Equal opportunity is fine.
It is not necessary to expect a woman to do the same things that a man is doing.
Then what is the point of the gender differentiation that nature has made?
It is important the feminine in the world is as important as the masculine in the world (Applauds).
But today in the name of equality women are coming to a place where they are beginning to act like men
because they know that is the only way they can succeed in the world. The only way they can succeed is
they have to act like men. You see even women doing like this these days.
This is not necessary because if you destroy the feminine then you truly have enslaved the women.
If you do not value the feminine in the world all the gentleness will go away.
You will have a market place at home also. It is already happening big time.
Before people marry, they are making an agreement, “When we break, who will get what in this house.”
Yes. Pre-nuptial agreements are being made, before we get married already an agreement,
“If we break, my bank balance is mine, yours is yours.” How can two people live like this?
But here still we have the joy of two people becoming one and enjoying that
may be after sometime you will fight. But still, at least you have the joy of weaving two lives into one.
When you go at it like this suspiciously in the name of equality,
you will never know the joy of knowing each other, mingling with each other, being one with each other,
nothing will happen, home will become a marketplace. This is because of wrong ideas of equality.
Equality you should not even talk about. We should talk about responsibility for each other (Applauds).