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no difference whether they are men or women. They say that there is only one male, and that is Krishna, the Lord. Everyone else is just a woman. This is the way of surrender. No man can enter the divine this way. If he does, it will be because he has been reborn in this very life, as a woman. He has become feminine, receptive.
There is a basic difference between a man and a woman because of the biological and structural differences. When body structure is different, the psychic structure will also be different because the body structure is something that is added on after the psychic structure is there. The psychic structure comes first and the structure of the body follows. It is not that your mind is feminine or not feminine because of your body. Your body is the way it is because of your mind.
Because of these basic, biological differences, all techniques can be divided into two: according to whether they require surrender or require will. If they require surrender, then God will be there. If they require will, then there will be no God.
Mahavir denied God absolutely. The whole system of yoga does not take God seriously. God can be neglected because the whole system is based on will. Yoga will not talk about God, or if it is talked about, it will just be mentioned by and only as an afterthought. The more ancient the yoga book is, the less possibility there is that there will be any reference to God at all. You need God to surrender -- otherwise you don't need Him. In a will-oriented system, your soul becomes the god. You are the god, no one else.
This is the male attitude toward existence. Man (the male attitude) cannot conceive of God as anything other than himself. This is Mahavir's attitude.
Then there is Meera's attitude. It is completely different, absolutely different. Not only different, but categorically opposite. The will has to be surrendered -- that is the method. Rather than becoming totally the will, you are to drop the will completely. 'You' must not be. Only God should be; you should not be. You should be absent, just an absence. Annihilate yourself, surrender.
But I still say that whether the technique
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