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PythagorasVOL. 2, PHILOSOPHIA PERENNISChapter-10Known, Unknown, UnknowableThird Question
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The third question Question 3 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 the churches, and the ideologies and the theologies. Of course, he calls God 'he'. Of course he says, "God created man in his own image" -- not woman, but man. Woman is just a rib taken out of the man, a supplement, an appendant, just a later thought -- because man was feeling so alone. He needed a woman to give him comfort, warmth, coziness. So woman was created only as a device to be exploited by man, but God created man in his own image and woman is just an afterthought. He had never planned woman in the beginning -- an afterthought. Seeing man lonely, sad, he created woman to be exploited, to be used. It is a device. Man has given these ugly ideas to the world. Up to now man has dominated the world, hence he calls God 'he' -- otherwise 'she' would be far better because 'she' contains 'he', but 'he' does not contain 'she'. 'She' would be far better. But those who have known, they have neither used 'he' nor have they used 'she' -- they have used 'it', and that is the best. In the East particularly, God is neither 'he' nor 'she' -- he is Ardhanarishwar, half man, half woman. And that's why in the Indian scriptures he is called 'it'. He contains both and yet he is transcendental to both. I also call God 'he', but remember I am simply using a word that has become current. I can call him 'she' but that will only create a little trouble. Or I can call him again and again 'he and she', but that will make it look a little ugly. I go on calling him 'he' because I have to use the language that is available. But remember, I have no respect for the male chauvinistic ideologies. All the bishops and the cardinals were standing in a sacred silence around the dead Pope's bed, when suddenly he tossed, stretched and opened his eyes. Praising the Lord for the miracle, they eagerly questioned the Pope, "So tell us, how is the Lord?" "Well," said the Pope, "first of all she was black...." Not only she, but black too! |
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