OSHO : THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY – WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOTHER?

THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY – WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOTHER?
When man and woman are together, life celebrates -- there is rejoicing. Have you watched twenty men sitting in a room? You will feel a certain sadness settling. Then a woman comes in -- suddenly a flare-up of energy...kundalini arises. Everybody becomes alert; something is happening. It is not a question of bodies, it is a question of energy. The opposite polarity has come in; sparks start happening. The opposite energy is there -- the magnetism starts functioning.

A world only of men will be a very drab and dull world. The Trinity must be bored by now. The Father, the Holy Ghost and the Son -- what are they doing now? It must be very boring company. Just think of it -- one should get scared! No, it cannot make life complete. A mixing of energy is needed; only then life goes on reaching to higher levels. It is a dialectics -- the thesis, the antithesis, and between the two arises the peak of synthesis. Then the synthesis again functions as a thesis, again antithesis...a higher synthesis arises. It is a continuous creation of a symphony of energies.

So my commune is very strange. That’s why you don't see many Indians here. They cannot believe that this is a commune. They have known only sad people sitting in an ashram, almost dead. They cannot believe so much rejoicing, so much delight.

Just the other day an Indian wrote a letter and he said, “Everything is okay, but after the meditations, or even after your lecture, there are a few couples who start hugging each other, kissing each other. This looks irreligious.” -- What can be more religious?

Love is religion, but for centuries love has been condemned. For centuries love has been a sin. For centuries man and woman have existed separately, meeting only in the dark of the night, when nobody knows that they are meeting, and then separating again. And feeling guilty for the meeting. And feeling deeply troubled that the desire arises for the woman, or the desire arises for the man. It is simply natural. It is not a question of you; it is a question of energies -- positive and negative energies meeting. When they meet, new life arises.

The Christian doctrine is certainly wrong. God should be given more freedom so that he can move between the polarities. In India we have a concept of Shiva as ardhanarishwar -- that seems to be one of the highest peaks of understanding. Ardhanarishwar means God is half-man, half-woman. You may have seen the statue or a photograph of the statue of Ardhanarishwar in which Shiva is half-man, half-woman. It is greatly symbolic; deeply indicative of understanding. This is how it should be.

Osho, Nirvana: The Last Nightmare, Talk #6