What are some of the female qualities of God?

You refer to god always as 'him' or 'he'. What are some of the female qualities of god?

NOW IT IS a very delicate problem.... In fact, all His qualities are feminine -- that's why I call Him 'He' and 'Him'. Otherwise He has no reason to call Himself a male. You can feel sorry for Him! And you can allow this much, can't you? He has all the qualities of a woman, but to call Him 'She' will be too much. Just to compensate I call Him 'He' and 'Him'. God is more a mother than a father. God is more like a womb than anything else. Out of God we are born, and back into God we dissolve. He is our birth and He is our death. He is like the ocean: He 'waves' us, we become His waves; He absorbs us -- we disappear. He is compassion, love. All His qualities are feminine. So there is no need to be worried about it, why I…

Mother is a natural phenomenon Father is artificial. In animals there is no father, only the mother. In birds, only the mother; The father is only accidental It is not so intrinsic. The same is possible once women become More freer economically More freer psychologically, The same is going to happen again. In the future, fatherhood is going to disappear. It can be predicted And very confidentially predicted That father has outlived. Because in the past The male became very important -- He created all the institutions Around the idea of the masculine. Even god became masculine. The Christian Trinity has no woman in it. All the three are male members. It is a gay club! And must be utterly boring! At least one woman is needed To make things a little juicy!

A friend has asked, Osho, the many virtues and signs of the lover-devotee of God you have spoken of in this chapter all seem to be feminine qualities. Why is that? And please explain whether emphasizing only feminine qualities does not contain an imbalance of life. In the vast balance of life, what is the significance of the proper contribution of both feminine and masculine qualities in the context of bhakti-yoga?

Psychologists say: what was on the surface you have spent through a lifetime of use, and what was repressed within remained unspent. The surface weakens, and the inner begins to show itself. A woman exhausts her feminine energy by fifty; she has used it. The inner man remains unused. As the outer feminine weakens, the inner man pushes and starts to manifest. A man exhausts his masculinity by fifty; the inner woman, untouched and fresh, begins to appear. This shift after fifty is complex, and it creates a thousand difficulties. You lived as a man, so you trained, groomed, educated yourself in masculine traits—and suddenly something changes within, a new world begins for which you have no training. Jung advised that men and women around forty-five should be sent back to school, because a revolutionary inner change is happening for which they are unprepared, while what they are prepared for…

Beloved master, how can you, as a man, talk about the feminine psyche? How do you know that god is a he?

Gudrun Hofmann, I am not talking as a man, I am not talking as a woman. I am not talking as a mind at all. The mind is used, but I am talking as consciousness, as awareness. And awareness is neither he nor she, awareness is neither man nor woman. Your body has that division and your mind too, because your mind is your inner part of the body and your body is the outer part of your mind. Your body and mind are not separate; they are one entity. In fact, to say body and mind is not right; 'and' should not be used. You are bodymind -- not even a hyphen between the two. Hence, with the body, with the mind, 'masculine', 'feminine' -- these words are relevant, meaningful. But there is something beyond them both; there is something transcendental. That is your real core, your being. That…

Osho, why is god called 'he 'and not she '?

IT IS BECAUSE OF the whole stupid past of humanity -- the whole chauvinistic past. Man has dominated, man has crushed the woman. And by crushing the woman, by destroying the woman, man has destroyed all grace from the earth. It is not only the woman that has been destroyed -- man has destroyed nature, because nature is woman. Man has destroyed the earth because the earth is woman. Man has destroyed ALL that is feminine! But beauty is feminine and love is feminine and celebration is feminine, music is feminine... wherever you will find any grace it is bound to be feminine. Even when you look at the Buddha, he will look more feminine than masculine. Wherever truth arrives, it comes with great grace, with great beauty. But that's how man has lived, and it is man who has created the religious books, it is man who has created…