Why have there been no women enlightened masters?
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"The absence of women enlightened masters is not a reflection of their capacity, but a consequence of centuries of patriarchal repression that has silenced their potential."
According to Osho, the absence of recognized women enlightened masters is not due to women’s incapacity but to millennia of patriarchal repression. Driven by men’s unconscious inferiority about childbirth, societies reduced women to property, denied education, mobility, and access to scriptures and temples, even prescribing sati. Religions claimed only male rebirth opens liberation—thus silencing, hiding, and preventing women’s emergence and recognition as spiritual masters.
Men felt inferior and made rules that kept women from learning and religion, so women couldn’t become—or be seen as—spiritual masters.
Why this matters practically
- Challenge beliefs and customs that exclude women from spiritual education and leadership.
- Create equal access to practice, study, and transmission so awakening is possible for all.
- Reinterpret traditions denying liberation in a female body and honor women’s realization.
- Create equal access to practice, study, and transmission so awakening is possible for all.
- Reinterpret traditions denying liberation in a female body and honor women’s realization.
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