Whether you are a man or a woman, unless the feminine becomes alive in you, you will never

experience the final aspects of life.

Well, in many parts of the world, the refer to the feminine as the weaker gender.

But India is a nation, a culture where we recognize the feminine as the Shakti, the ultimate power.

So let us not think in terms of which is superior, which is inferior, which is a very rudimentary thought

of what is superior when we are two parts of the same thing.

That there is nobody here without the contribution from their mothers.

So how can you say it is inferior or superior?

There is nobody here who does not have the qualities of their father or their mother in them.

So this dimension of masculine and feminine should never be seen as which is superior and which is inferior,

but seeing them as two complementary dimensions of our existence.

Here we are in Tennessee, a T-Shine Institute of Inner Sciences.

Now whether there is, right now, working towards it, it's winter, all the leaves are largely gone from the trees, temperatures,

just about maybe five, six degrees centigrade.

Tomorrow it's going to snow, tomorrow there's a darshan here and it's going to be snowing.

Well people would say this is bad weather, this is not bad weather, it's just weather, one more kind of weather.

Just like this, masculine feminine is just like this, it is not which is good, which is bad, which is high, which is low,

which is good weather, which is bad weather, no rain and snow are very much part of the weather.

As in Chinese, maybe because of the nature of your skin, you feel winter is a bad weather, it's not bad weather.

So feminine is not a weaker dimension of our existence, it is just one half of us.

Let's make this happen within you that the masculine and the feminine are in equal proportions

so that you are a complete human being, experiencing the strength of life at the same time,

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