The Feminine Principle

In Hinduism, Trinity has two definitions. One is that of Brahma + Vishnu + Mahesh while the other is that of Shiva + Parvati + Ganesh (The divine Father + Mother + Child).

In Christianity, Trinity is defined as The Holy Father + The Son + The Holy Spirit.

By logic, only a Mother can complete the triad of “In nomine Patris, et Filli, et Spiritus Sancti.” The Holy Spirit or who they also call as The Holy Ghost has to be a feminine power, a Mother. But the Christians believe that The Holy Spirit is a male.

Does that mean that in Christianity there is no significance of the feminine power?

How can this be?
Jesus Christ, the divine Son, was not born to a man named Joseph, but to a lady called Mother Virgin Mary, The Immaculata.

Christians need to ponder, why is it that the Feminine Principle was not given its due?

How could the Mother element be dismissed in Christian Spirituality?
Just paying obeisance to Mother Mary is not enough. Because She was the physical incarnation of The Holy Spirit. In Her subtle form, She is The Holy Spirit.

The Protestant Church went even further and rejected Mother Mary completely.

How could the intellectual Martin Luther fail to realise that without the Mother element, the Creator, the creation of the entire universe is not possible?
Maybe, the problem was intellect itself. Divinity is beyond human intellect, isn’t it?

Interestingly, similar blunder happened in Islam. Despite the great sacrifice of Fatima Bi, the daughter of Prophet Mohammed and the wife of Hazrat Ali and the mother of Hassan and Hussain, the Feminine Principle has been totally discarded in Islam. This explains the horrific condition of women in the Islamic nations. Just imagine how it would have been for women 1400 years ago in Islamic nations.

Why do you think this has happened in Christianity and Islam?

During the period of Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed, and the period after them, the region of Middle East had a very dominant and degraded male society. Women merely were objects of sex, male-child producing machines, and maids who looked after the house and raised children. While the men were at war and making wealth, they felt their task and purpose of life was higher. In addition, in Islam, they believed that it was the evil Hawwa (Eve) who tempted Aadam (Adam) and was responsible for the fall of man. Therefore, women were not only perceived as inferior, but evil. They also were considered impure due to their menstrual cycle. So how could they ever revere woman or a feminine power? (Here, it is important to note that Prophet Mohammed never said women were inferior to men) Also, as time went by, the versions of The Holy Bible and The Holy Quran were edited according to the convenience of the patriarchal society of those times.

That's why, the spiritual head of Christianity is always Il Papa and never an Il Mama. But why didn’t the nuns ever ask if their seeking is lesser or inferior to those of Popes and Archbishops?

When you suppress anything, after a point, it is bound to spring up with much more force. In the Christian world this happened between 1960-70s. The Women's Liberation Movement.

The women's liberation of the Christian world liberated women from the shackles of male dominance. But in real, it did a lot of bad than good for the womenfolk. Sadly, the women’s liberation movement was a bigger victory of the egoistic, desperate and corrupt males. Because the women have only degraded themselves in the name of liberation. That's exactly what men wanted. Easy sex. More sex. Sex with as many women on the planet. And they got it on a platter. The women’s desire of seeking attention and appreciation of men doomed women even further.

In the first place, why would you want to seek attention and appreciation of those who never respected you?

When will you understand that when men get attracted to you, they are not thinking of your inner beauty and goodness?
They have only one thing in mind. Don’t you know what it is?

To every man, a woman was primarily an object of sex then. Women are primarily an object of sex even today.

I wonder what will happen when the women of the Islamic world will announce their liberation. Just imagine how it will pan out. Men all over the world are already drooling at the thought of it.  

In the ancient Hindu text of Manusmriti, there is a beautiful saying in Sanskrit:

Yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ|

Yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ ||

Where women are honoured, there the gods rejoice; where, on the other hand, they are not honoured, there all rites are fruitless.

But the Westernised Hindu women of today also have to ask themselves. Are they worthy of being worshipped (pūjyante)?

Women should not try to compete with men. Why droop down to the level of lowly creatures when you are already divine? Stay divine. Be the Goddess that you are. Even Gods and demons will fall at your feet.

A Lebanese-American philosopher, writer and painter named Gibran Khalil Gibran said something very interesting and profound about the feminine principle.

Christians, Muslims and all patriarchal societies must ponder upon it.
He quoted: "Most religions speak of God in the masculine gender. To me He is as much a Mother as He is a Father. The God-Father may be reached through the mind or the imagination, but the God-Mother can be reached through the heart only-through love.''

Forget being fair to women, men in general are not fair even to men. Why else would they call this saint a philosopher?