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master is the bridge between religion and science, between love and logic. A master is a threshold -- hence he can convince you, he can use all logical argumentation, and yet his goal remains illogical. Once you are convinced, he throws you into the mysterious. It is a quantum leap.
I would like to say something more about that ancient tradition:
Mediaeval architects' manuals, all the manuals in India, make it a rule that all temples must bear maithuna sculpture s on their doorways. 'Maithuna' is a Sanskrit word -- very pregnant. It does not mean ordinary intercourse, it does not mean an ordinary couple in love -- it means UNIO MYSTICA. It means two persons so deeply dissolved into each other that they are no longer two. It is not just a couple making love -- it is LOVE, and the couple has disappeared into it. It is a state of being lost into each other, of oneness.
Other architects' manuals say that the temple has to be a meeting of the sky and the earth. The earth is visible, logical, material. The sky is vague, nebulous, undefined. The temple has to be a place where the defined meets the undefined. The temple has to be a place where the known meets with the unknown.
Man is logic, man represents logic, mathematics, sys-tematization, science. Woman is illogic, intuition, feeling, emotion, poetry; vague, undefined and indefinable. The maithuna figure represents this meeting of logic and illogic, of mind and heart, of body and soul -- of ALL the pairs of opposites of yin and yang. And when yin and yang meet and merge and become one, a temple is created. Love is the temple: orgasm, that state of orgasmic flow where you don't know who you are -- man or woman -- where you don't know any identity, all identity is lost, when you are in an utter state of forgetfulness AND remembrance... forgetfulness of all that you had known about yourself and remembrance of ALL THAT YOU REALLY ARE, forgetfulness as an ego and remembrance as a whole. That is the meaning of maithuna.
Maithuna means lovers in a deep state of oneness, in a state of inner marriage -- not just the outer marriage. You will be surprised to know that only man can come to that
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