The Total Is Neither Masculine nor Feminine, Hence the Search and Summit of Both
There is hardly any need to give special attention to the so-called masculine and feminine because neither the masculine really exists nor the feminine really exists. We talk about them because our mind is obsessed with gender, with sex; with women, with men; all dualities are the same. In fact, there is only one duality, called “duality”. The two ends of that duality can be given any name.
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Questioner: Can we discuss the masculine and feminine principles in nature, and in a person, if at all there are such things.
Acharya Prashant: You have put in this caveat- ‘if at all there are such things.’ ‘If there are.’ The question of ‘is-ness’. What ‘is’. What ‘is’, is non-dual; and what you call as masculine and feminine, is surely two ends of duality. Now, these two ends of duality can obviously not be discussed in terms of ‘is-ness’, because what is non-dual, is not; what is dualistic, is not; (repeating) what is dualistic, is not.
Then why do we talk of yin and yang; purush and prakrati – the masculine and the feminine; so much?
We talk about them because our mind is obsessed with gender, with sex; with women, with men; all dualities are the same. In fact, there is only one duality, called “duality”. The two ends of that duality can be given any name. Those two ends can be called as- black and white, solid and gaseous; man and woman, coming and going; rising and falling, but
