Then you are against the freedom of women. Don't you want women's liberation? What is the characteristic nature of a woman?

Question : Then you are against the freedom of women. Don't you want women's liberation?

Shri Shri Thakur : The freedom of women lies in their characteristics, i.e., where her characteristics get unimpeded blooming - which, once successfully accomplished, lays the path for her true liberation. A man is a man and a woman is a woman after all. There can be no comparison between them. Both are prominent in their own areas according to their own characteristics.¹

Question : What is the characteristic nature of a woman?

Shri Shri Thakur : The nature of a woman is easily flexible, - easy sympathetic, easily gets influenced by other elements. That is why her traits can easily take up good or bad shape depending upon the occasion or association.²

Foot notes:

¹ – "We are foolish and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the 'superiority' of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not, each completes the other and is completed by the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give." - John Ruskin

² – "Girls are sympathetic than the boys, they are also more easily prejudiced." - 'Youth' by G. S. Hall

"Souls of woman so admirably calculated to receive suggestions." - G. S. Hall

"The all-sided impressionability characteristic of her sex which when cultivated is so like an awakened child." - 'On the Education of Girls' by Stanley Hall

[Ref: Nana Prasange Vol.1, Ninth Edition, Dec-2001, Page 67-68]