What happens when male and female energies are equalized?

Osho, earlier in a talk you said that in a man there is sixty percent male and forty percent female, and in a woman sixty percent female and forty percent male. If the two forces become fifty–fifty, would that power be neutral or impotent? And why is the Divine called Ardhanarishvara?

In London not long ago there was a big, sensational court case. A girl and a boy married; after the marriage the girl became a boy. The case in court was that the girl had deceived everyone—that she had been a boy all along. It was a difficult case. The girl said she had been a girl, and this development happened later. But at that time science was not very clear about it. In the last twenty–twenty-five years science has become quite clear, and many kinds of events have occurred in which sex transformation took place—some man became a woman, some woman became a man. If these are marginal cases—if there is a 49–51 margin—change can happen at any time; with slight chemical differences, change can happen. And now it has become very feasible; the time is not far when no man will have to suffer being a man all…

Questioner. You have said that a man is sixty percent male and forty percent female, and a woman is sixty percent female and forty percent male. In case the ratio is altered and equalized, do you think male and female energies will neutralize and sterilize each other? And how is it god has been called ardhanarishwara, half man and half woman?

I did not say that the proportion of male and female energy is fixed at sixty and forty percent. It can vary; it can be seventy and thirty, even ninety and ten. But in case it is fifty-fifty, it makes a man or woman asexual. Then he or she is out of the dialectics of sex, then he or she is neutral or impotent. It is significant that in Sanskrit the word brahman or the supreme energy or God, is categorized as neuter gender. Is brahman male or female? No, it is neutral. What has been called omnipotent has been indicated in language as without gender. How can the supreme be male or female? That would make brahman partial. No, the ultimate being is impartial. This impartiality is possible only if the proportion of male and female energy is fifty-fifty. The concept of ardhanarishwara is the symbol of brahman, the…

Osho, you have said that when the seeker reaches the fifth body, the distinction between woman and man disappears. Through what adjustment of the positive and negative electrical polarities in the first four bodies does this happen?

Whenever an incomplete woman and an incomplete man meet, both are weakened; afterward, both have less energy than before they met. In the meeting of a complete man and a complete woman the reverse happens: after they meet, both have more energy than before. Their own powers, dormant within, are awakened and activated by the nearness of the other. Previously too it was their own energy that spilled in the other’s presence; now it is their own energy that is stirred and revealed in the other’s presence. From this, a hint is received: can there be, within, a meeting of the complete man and the complete woman? For the first inner meeting was between an incomplete man and an incomplete woman. Inner maithuna of the third and fourth bodies brings freedom from duality Work begins on the second unit—the third and fourth bodies. When the third and fourth meet: in…

You have said that the difference of male and female ends with the fifth body. How do the positive and negative poles of electricity of the first four bodies become adjusted to bring about this happening? Please explain this in detail.

Therefore, the happening that takes place in a man and a woman after the fourth plane will be different; it is bound to be. The happening is the same but their attitude towards it is different. The man will still be aggressive and the woman will still be surrendered. After the attainment of the fourth body a woman lets go completely; not even an iota will be withheld in her surrender. This surrender, this letting go, will take her to the journey of the fifth plane where a woman is no longer a woman because in order to remain a woman it is necessary to keep something back. In fact, we are what we are because we hold back a little of ourselves. If we were to let ourselves go completely we would become something we never were before. But there is a holding back in one's being all the…

Osho, up to the fourth body there remains an electrical difference between woman and man. Therefore, does the effect of shaktipat on a female seeker and on a male seeker differ when the conductor is a woman or a man who has reached the fourth body? And why?

In a spiritual land, a predominance of feminine personality When the history of the world is written spiritually—and when we cease to take only material events as history, and take events in consciousness as true history—we shall understand that whenever a country becomes spiritual, it becomes feminine; and whenever it becomes feminine, civilizations far cruder than itself will defeat it. It is a striking fact that those who defeated India were far behind India—practically wild and barbaric. Be they Turks, Mughals, or Mongols—any of them; they had no civilization to speak of. But in one sense they were men—wild men—and we had become receptive. We could only assimilate them; there was no way to fight. Thus, the female body assimilates, needs a medium; the male body can give and can also receive grace directly. For this reason, someone like Mahavira even had to say that for the ultimate attainment a…