 This question is from Mimi Namaskaram Sadhguru In the last few weeks you have been speaking about making home a sweet home to live in However home cannot be sweet for many who are victims of domestic violence and cannot escape anywhere. This is a man complaining or a woman? Mimi, huh? Mimi. Am I am I? Sounds like a woman in Lebanon the number of victims have increased by a hundred percent since March 2019 and The same is happening across the world after the lockdown How can we help them in these difficult days and what can they do to survive this period? Domestic violence. I thought it could be a man because these days women are more fit than men So I thought it's the man complaining, but it's still a woman unfortunately Well So this is what we are trying to change. This is what the world is trying to change because because a woman Or a female human being has certain biological responsibilities in terms of Bringing us all forth here Because of that There were certain Social handicaps which evolved over a period of time These handicaps have been exploited Too harshly in many societies Almost everywhere, but not everybody but everywhere It's happened in some places. It has religious backing In some places it's free enterprise To dominate and exploit a woman Individual people will always do. I want you to understand. It's not just about a woman The individual people have a tendency to exploit anybody who is little weaker than them well People all over the world this used to happen. Fortunately, it's come down considerably now When we were growing up also Everyday at the school You can get beaten for something or the other almost every day. Why are you beating a child? Simply because they're smaller than you You and you and had sayings spare the stick and spoil the child something something So you are not beating them because you know something better You are not beating them because you evolved and they're unevolved and you want to hasten evolution with a stick Simply they're smaller than you How come when they grow up you don't beat them because now you know the consequence so similarly They are not necessarily beating somebody because they are women They're beating them because they're physically weaker Compared to a man little smaller and weaker Generally at least So this exploitation of anybody who's weaker than you either physically Financially socially whichever way if you're if you're a little weaker You get rubbed around, you know once I was There was some kind of assembly near In Malanadu that's near Shiv Magga in the Western Gods There's some camp there and This way back I'm talking Some little yoga thing going on and they wanted me to come there and spend a day with them So I went Naturally my mode of transport was always a motorcycle at that time. I went there Those days the 250cc Single stroke Machine was a big motorcycle Today when I park it next to what I have today It looks like a joke, but that day it was big motorcycle on the road. It was the fastest thing on the road So I went there and Some other people were there who were serving that place So on a little Luna there used to be one little machine called Luna kinetic thing So on this Luna this guy goes to purchase some vegetables from a faraway place and comes because this is in a remote jungle and then He was coming with all these bags and some truck was going and Truck pushed him off the road So he fell down and little damage no big damage, but some damage some skin lost no bones So he came and he was saying what happened and you know because I didn't have power He pushed me like this on the road. You must always have some power. I Said not just road just about anywhere if you don't have power, they'll push you around Unfortunately the world has become like this This is why This is why a spiritual space is very important where people are not seen for their strength People are not seen for their physical strength or financial strength or something else like that But people are valued just for what they are We need to build a society like this This Violence within the house. I know a whole lot of people are trying to address it Like it's a man-woman problem. It's not a man-woman problem. This is man versus anything problem Anything that's weaker than you is very small you will stamp it out It's a little big you throw stones at it if it's a little bigger you take a stick and beat it Just about anything Why why do people why did people go about just shooting whatever they saw Wild animals and stuff like that Not always for food if they're just short for food because of their survival. That's a different matter Most of the animals were shot Simply for pleasure because they can't shoot back at you So you shoot a buffalo because it can't shoot back at you You beat a child because he can't beat you back. You beat a woman because she can't beat you back so This is on everywhere, but today women have choices It's time. We must make those choices. We can't fix everything right away but all of you who have children empowering The girl child in your house is the most important thing Empowerment does not mean she should become the exploiter from tomorrow Empowerment is this that you have no need to exploit anybody that is empowerment a Human being is truly empowered that If I sit here, I feel wonderful by myself. I don't have to have ten people behind beneath me for me to feel great This is empowerment This empowerment has to happen means You have to look at the spiritual process the whole world spiritual process Does not mean looking up looking down. It's about turning inward and getting in touch with the essential nature of who we are If we don't touch that We will be like every other animal this happened one day a Lion was walking in the forest and he was feeling like this man in the domestic violence scene Little strutting around thinking like that He saw a fox. He caught him and he said hey, who is the king of the forest? Fox, you know how oh my lord, you are not only king of the forest. You are the king of the universe He felt a little more. It got puffed up and then he was strutting around then he saw a Leopard caught him Who is the king of the forest? He shivered Because he's not a match for the lion He said no, no, you are definitely the king of the forest. There is no two ways about it If I had two choices, it would be you and you Then he was feeling really wonderful even a leopard is shivering in front of him And he came to a little opening there. He saw a huge tusker standing And he rode who is the king of the forest the tusker without a word Put his trunk out picked him up twirled him around and trashed him on the ground With his back hurting very badly. You could have just told me The tusker said but I had to make my point So this problem that wherever you find somebody who is little weaker than you Physically financially socially politically you want to rub them in This is very animalistic It's okay for the animal kingdom not okay for human beings