According to Osho, the masculine mind erased the feminine from the Christian vision of God: even the Trinity grants no place to the Mother—God, the Holy Ghost, and the Son are all depicted as male. This male chauvinism distorts reality, because the divine is a complete circle—male and female, yin and yang—or beyond gender altogether (tat), not a one-sided masculine monopoly.
They kicked the Mother out of the Trinity, pretending God is only male, though real divinity includes both woman and man.
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You have mentioned many times the christian trinity: the father, the son and the holy ghost. Could you tell us please, what happened to the mother?
All the religions of the world were founded by men; not a single religion has been founded by any woman. And of course the male ego, the male chauvinism, has been the root cause of all the doctrines that have been created to explain existence. It is very difficult for the male ego to think of woman as the creator. Even to give a small portion in the trinity to woman seems to be difficult. Everything has been managed by man. Man has been the manager in this world and, of course, he has created the concept of the other world. There also he goes on managing. God is man, the holy ghost is man, the son is man.... Not that it is so. If there is any god, he is bound to be both man and woman. He cannot be just male -- that is impossible, that will be…
Beloved Osho, what is the connection between these two: the trinity of the father, the son and the holy ghost; and the body, the mind and the witness. Or is the holy ghost just another old ghost?
There is no trinity the way Christians conceive it. The father, the son, the holy ghost -- in fact, the whole idea is anti-feminine, it is against women. In the divine trinity there is no place for any woman. There is a place for a ghost, and I don't think that he is holy because this is the guy who made poor Mary pregnant, and if he is holy then every rapist is holy. This is the most unholy ghost, but there is a place for him. And what kind of family -- father, son and holy ghost? Where is the mother? No, the woman cannot be accepted as part of God. This is the conspiracy. Otherwise it would have been far better: God the father, God the mother, God the son; it would have looked more contemporary, a beautiful family, using birth control -- because centuries have passed and…
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!
Whether the birth be of matter or of consciousness, whether earth is born or heaven, from the mystery hidden in the depths of existence is born all. Therefore I said: those who saw the Divine as Mother—as Durga or Amba—their understanding is deeper than seeing the Divine as Father. If the Divine is anywhere, He will be feminine. For the capacity to give birth to such an immense cosmos cannot be in the male. To bring forth such vast moons and stars, a womb is needed; without a womb it is not possible. Therefore the Jewish traditions—Jew, Christian, and Islam are all expansions of the Jewish line—gave to the world a great delusion: God the Father. That notion is dangerous. It satisfies the male mind because he finds himself exalted in the image of God. But that notion has no relation to the truth of life.
33. By performing samyama on the light under the crown of the head comes the ability to contact all perfected beings.
34. THROUGH PRATIBHA, INTUITION, KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING. 35. PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE HEART BRINGS AWARENESS OF THE NATURE OF MIND. Women are exhibitionists -- they would like to be seen. But that's perfectly okay because that's how men and women fit: man wants to see, woman wants to show. They fit, perfectly. It is absolutely okay. If women don't want to exhibit, then they will create trouble, and if man is not a voyeur, for whom will women prepare so much -- for whom? -- Nobody will look at them. Everything fits in nature in a perfect way. It synchronizes. But to reach to sahasrar you have to drop this duality of functioning. You cannot reach God as man or woman. You have to reach God as a simple, pure being. "By performing samyama on the light under the crown of the head comes the ability to contact all perfected…