Is rape always motivated by lust? Or is it due to the hunger for power as sociologists say?

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question is rape always motivated by lust sociologists say that it is often motivated by power much more than lust lust answer yes power is also an important factor but lust is the undercurrent there also for example we see the Mahabharata when Draupadi was lost in the gamble and she was asked she was ordered to come to the assembly and then she was dishonored by being disrobed the focus of that activity was the naked exhibition of power that queen who whose hair had been so beautifully decorated to receive the abhishek at the Rajasuya sacrifice she who was like the empress of the world has now become our maid servant so it was to to show their power the Kauravas wanted to show their power and exhibit the powerlessness of the Pandavas so that’s how they called her and then they wanted to disrobe her over there so certainly lust was also an undercurrent definitely and that lust was the motivating undercurrent we could say because both Nirudhana and Karna had been a dishonor of Draupadi and both were besotted by her but they had not been able to win her hand for whatever reasons and now they wanted to get back at her so the dishonoring of women can definitely be due to it’s horrendous that when wars happen then rapes are done as an used as an instrument of war it’s a very grievous atrocious human right violation and there yes there is lust definitely at the bottom and that lust makes the people motivated to do certain things but at the top level there is also power because the idea is that we are so powerful and they are so powerless we can do whatever we want with them and one way their power is exhibited is through it’s expression in sexual violation so the important point to recognize is that whenever there are any ghastly anarthas or terrible crimes that happen those crimes are not just a result of one anartha so one anartha may be predominant so for example when a person commits a murder so that murder unless it is a cold blooded planned murder sometimes a murder might just happen in a fit of anger person feels infuriated because of something and then decides to then in just a moment of insanity takes out a knife or takes out a gun and shoots somebody so that is anger primarily but then that anger may also have an undercurrent of envy there was a famous Maharashtrian politician who was killed by his brother and that killing happened in a flash of a moment because of anger but when he was asked about it his brother said that for so many years my brother was just neglecting me, disrespecting me then I could take it no more so now we could say at one level there was pride there was envy that this person has become so my brother has become so famous and well known and now he is neglecting me so every ghastly crime like murder there can be an immediate wave of anger that is there and along with that there may also be the background of greed or envy or arrogance whatever so we don’t have to specifically go about doing a hair splitting post-mortem of the cause of any particular crime hair splitting means that we go into a very technical and intricate and often unnecessary sort of analysis so the important point is of course to do what we can to get a broad understanding of the causes and do what we can to set up a broad set of socio political, socio cultural, socio legal systems by which such crimes can be minimized so for now lust is definitely one factor and power is also another factor and the whole process of Krishna consciousness is based on the principle that we can gradually become purified and we can get rid of our lower self or we can conquer or curb our lower self and bring out our higher self and for the process of bringing this out there is a spiritual culture that is there and those who are not ready to participate in it they have to be punished so there is Shastra and there is Shastra so Shastra is for people who are ready to submit themselves and purify themselves and Shastra is for those who are not ready to be submissive and so need to be punished and through this combination of Shastra and Shastra we can help society stay on the path of stay in a state of material order and harmony and also on spiritual progress. Thank you.