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She may fall in love with somebody else. He wants to keep her as his possession even after death. So the only way is -- because leaving her he cannot trust -- that she should also die with him, just to satisfy his masochistic, male chauvinistic, stupid idea of being the owner.
They respected these women, they made memorials for them. I have been asking shankaracharyas and learned and wise Hindu monks, "If this is the case, why has not one single man in the whole history jumped with his wife when she has died?" And they have nothing to answer. They simply look embarrassed, they want to change the subject. But with me it is very difficult to change the subject! I said, "If it is something great, then man has proved himself lower than women."
But the truth is that man has always thought that he is the master, and the woman is the possession -- why should he die for the possession? He can have as many women as he wants.
In fact, in ancient India women were sold in the marketplaces -- as they were sold all over the world -- as slaves. And you will be surprised that the great Hindu saints, sages -- because nobody looks behind the curtain -- even they were going into the places where women were auctioned, and they were purchasing women.
They had wives and alongside they had purchased women. For these purchased women a special word was used. For the wife the word is patni and for the purchased woman the word is vadhu. Now the distinction is lost, because now there is no auction place for women.
But it was accepted as being perfectly right. Even the so-called seers, saints, whom you would think have gone beyond all worldly things, were not so sensitive as to have revolted against this brutal process of auctioning women, purchasing them just like any other thing you purchase in the market.
What is right? And what is wrong?
So the question is not, you must not let wrong thoughts continue. You must not let thoughts continue -- no question of right, no question of wrong.
In other words: every thought is wrong.
All thoughts have to be removed from your mind so the screen of the mind is completely empty, so you have
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