FATHERHOOD DOES NOT EXIST IN NATURE: IT IS A HUMAN INSTITUTION - OSHO

FATHERHOOD DOES NOT EXIST IN NATURE: IT IS A HUMAN INSTITUTION

Bhagavati is feminine for bhagavan. First, the sutra does not use the word bhagavan, it uses bhagavati, the feminine -- because THE SOURCE OF ALL IS FEMININE, not masculine. IT IS YIN, not yang, IT IS A MOTHER not a father.

The Christian concept of God as father is not so beautiful. It is nothing but male ego. The male ego cannot think that God can be a 'she'; the male ego wants God to be a 'he'. And you see the whole Christian trinity: all three persons are men, the woman is not included there -- God the father, and Christ the son, and the Holy Ghost. It is an all-male club. And remember well that the feminine is far more fundamental in life than the man, because only the woman has the womb , only the woman can give birth to life, to new life. It comes through the feminine.

Why does it come through the feminine? It is not just accidental. It comes through the feminine because only the feminine can allow it to come -- because the feminine is receptive. The masculine is aggressive; the feminine can receive, absorb, can become a passage.

The sutra says bhagavati, not bhagavan. It is of immense importance. That perfect wisdom out of which all the Buddhas come is a feminine element, a mother. The womb has to be a mother. Once you think of God as father, you don't seem to understand what you are doing. Father is an unnatural institution. FATHERHOOD DOES NOT EXIST IN NATURE. Fatherhood has existed only for a few thousand years; IT IS A HUMAN INSTITUTION. The mother exists everywhere, the mother is natural.

Osho, The Heart of Sutra