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Why are women considered Less Intelligent?
From Caitanya Caran Prabhu's lecture:
Why are women considered less intelligent?
When SP says women are less intelligent how do we understand it when we see often that girls perform better than men in academics?
Answer:
When SP is referring to women as less intelligent that is not referring to the information processing ability that goes on in the name of intelligence today. There are cases we see that women are more intelligent than men. But this stmt cannot also refer to the soul bec at the level of the soul bec at the level of the soul both men and women are the same?
Where is this coming from if it is not related at the material level and not at the spiritual level?
Actually it is related at the interaction of material and spiritual level. In the Vedic Culture intelligence is the ability to differentiate between matter and spirit. Intelligence begins by understanding that I am not the body I am the soul. this bodily identification is strong for everyone in the material level. but in general it is stronger for women because they have a form that is attractive and alluring to men. To a large extent if the women is not spiritually minded her sense of self identity and self worth comes from the bodily form and therefore to understand that the self is not the body is that much more difficult.
so the misindentification of the spirit with matter is much stronger when the spirit is entrapped in the women's body.
another aspect of this misidentification is that the female body leads to a excess of emotionality as compared to rationality. Men are more rational and women are more emotional.To some extent by exercising our rational faculty one can understand our philosophy so the male body is more suited to understanding philosphy-This is ageneral principle it may not apply to all specific cases
The capacity ot be overwhelemed by emotions is greater in the case of women. This is not a disadvantage .
For the function of the women as a mother the capcity to experience emotions is vital . Infact very often children dont behave in rational ways. To act as mothers to see their children through rational spectacles then they will not be able to offer the unconditional love in the formative years. the profuse emotions that the female body enables the soul to experience is a blessing to help the soul perform the function of the mother.
A women can have two roles, one is as objects as temptations or they cna be mother's - sources of shelter.
In Vedic Culture the role of maternity is emphasized over the sexuality. Shelters os maternity not sexuality when this is emphasized then the emotionality of women can be used to care for the family members especially the children . It can help them to grow, if the women can become a devotee then her emotionality cna help her experience devotional emotions and pass them on to her children.
So in this way, if women function as mothers primarily then whatever maybe the weakness of the particular body they have then the weakness doesnt harm them but it helps them and helps them help others.
In contrast modern society downplays and to some aspect denies the maternal aspect of women and it overhypes the sexual aspect of women. This leads to increase bodily consioiuness among women and men.
That's why bodily identification increases sign of less intelligent.
Women are less intelligent is not to restrict their capacities and potential and denigrate them but to recognize that different bodies give us different limitations and endowment but to minimize the harm from the limitations and maximize the benefit from the endowments.The Social order in which women were primarily mothers and not allurers was standard in the Vedic Culture.
The modern society by treating women as sex symbols may give women more freedom and attention- but that doesnt lead to greater respect and security but it leads to greater insecurity and greater depersonalization. When a women is seen just as a sex symbol then she is not seen as a person but as an object. When they are trained to be sex symbols when the sexual appeal decreases then the sense of self worth is lost- but if it sis coming from her sens of identifying herself as a mother then a women cannot be a sex symbol throughout her life but she can always be a mother all her life. That is why the maternal role of a mother should be emphasized and the sexual role she be minimized that is what is vedic culture does.The less intelligence is not to minimize women but to protect and cherish women so that their spirituality can be developed and cherished in a way that is beneficial to the full society and beneficial to themselves.
Why are women considered less intelligent?
When SP says women are less intelligent how do we understand it when we see often that girls perform better than men in academics?
Answer:
When SP is referring to women as less intelligent that is not referring to the information processing ability that goes on in the name of intelligence today. There are cases we see that women are more intelligent than men. But this stmt cannot also refer to the soul bec at the level of the soul bec at the level of the soul both men and women are the same?
Where is this coming from if it is not related at the material level and not at the spiritual level?
Actually it is related at the interaction of material and spiritual level. In the Vedic Culture intelligence is the ability to differentiate between matter and spirit. Intelligence begins by understanding that I am not the body I am the soul. this bodily identification is strong for everyone in the material level. but in general it is stronger for women because they have a form that is attractive and alluring to men. To a large extent if the women is not spiritually minded her sense of self identity and self worth comes from the bodily form and therefore to understand that the self is not the body is that much more difficult.
so the misindentification of the spirit with matter is much stronger when the spirit is entrapped in the women's body.
another aspect of this misidentification is that the female body leads to a excess of emotionality as compared to rationality. Men are more rational and women are more emotional.To some extent by exercising our rational faculty one can understand our philosophy so the male body is more suited to understanding philosphy-This is ageneral principle it may not apply to all specific cases
The capacity ot be overwhelemed by emotions is greater in the case of women. This is not a disadvantage .
For the function of the women as a mother the capcity to experience emotions is vital . Infact very often children dont behave in rational ways. To act as mothers to see their children through rational spectacles then they will not be able to offer the unconditional love in the formative years. the profuse emotions that the female body enables the soul to experience is a blessing to help the soul perform the function of the mother.
A women can have two roles, one is as objects as temptations or they cna be mother's - sources of shelter.
In Vedic Culture the role of maternity is emphasized over the sexuality. Shelters os maternity not sexuality when this is emphasized then the emotionality of women can be used to care for the family members especially the children . It can help them to grow, if the women can become a devotee then her emotionality cna help her experience devotional emotions and pass them on to her children.
So in this way, if women function as mothers primarily then whatever maybe the weakness of the particular body they have then the weakness doesnt harm them but it helps them and helps them help others.
In contrast modern society downplays and to some aspect denies the maternal aspect of women and it overhypes the sexual aspect of women. This leads to increase bodily consioiuness among women and men.
That's why bodily identification increases sign of less intelligent.
Women are less intelligent is not to restrict their capacities and potential and denigrate them but to recognize that different bodies give us different limitations and endowment but to minimize the harm from the limitations and maximize the benefit from the endowments.The Social order in which women were primarily mothers and not allurers was standard in the Vedic Culture.
The modern society by treating women as sex symbols may give women more freedom and attention- but that doesnt lead to greater respect and security but it leads to greater insecurity and greater depersonalization. When a women is seen just as a sex symbol then she is not seen as a person but as an object. When they are trained to be sex symbols when the sexual appeal decreases then the sense of self worth is lost- but if it sis coming from her sens of identifying herself as a mother then a women cannot be a sex symbol throughout her life but she can always be a mother all her life. That is why the maternal role of a mother should be emphasized and the sexual role she be minimized that is what is vedic culture does.The less intelligence is not to minimize women but to protect and cherish women so that their spirituality can be developed and cherished in a way that is beneficial to the full society and beneficial to themselves.
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