Is enlightenment more difficult for women? || Acharya Prashant, on Sri Ramakrishna (2015)
From The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna:
“In the World, ‘women and gold’ is the covering of Maya.”
Acharya Prashant: He is talking to a man. Most of the World’s spiritual literature, is addressed to men, though Truth has nothing to do with gender. But the approach to it, depends upon on who is walking? Because, historically, it is mostly the men who have shown an urge, an eagerness, via the scriptures. So, the scriptures are mostly addressed to men. That has to be kept in mind.
L: Is it right – For women, the condition is, women are helpless, hopeless, in field of spirituality.
AP: When most of the medicines are targeted at men. Does it mean that women are exceptionally sick?
L: But when the discussion was going on earlier, you said that the condition for women is hopeless.
AP: For women, it is not really the scriptures that work so much. Because the world is a lot more physical for them. Hence the path for a woman, is a little different. While scriptures are surely relevant and useful to her, but she also needs a more personal touch. That is changing, because today’s woman is not the woman that she has been, historically.
