Girish Ramnath

Dark And Light Sides

Woman is death. By ‘death’ there is no condemnation meant or supposed, just that the quality of death is security. You are secure only when you are dead...then nothing can happen to you any longer....

The male principle is basically polygamous, and the feminine is monogamous.... The alchemy consists in understanding these two principles in each of you, man or woman; and in transforming the anima, the dark part in you, into the light part; in helping the dark part to move, in helping the dark part help the light part and not to fight with it.

Why So Mysterious?

Hence, the mystery of the woman. No man has ever been able to unravel the mystery. Only if one has gone beyond both, only if one has become a Buddha, one knows the mystery of both man and woman. The woman remains mysterious, dark…. You cannot see clearly, you can, at the most, grope. You can never be logically clear about the woman. She never follows logic, her path is very zig-zag...

Somebody can look into your eyes so vacantly that he becomes unreachable or look into you so absently that he is unreachable. Or somebody can look with such desire, passion, longing, such caring, that his eyes almost start caressing your body. The eyes are the aggressive parts. They can project, they can reach. The disciple becomes feminine. That’s why women are the best disciples in the world. Man finds a little difficulty in becoming a disciple. Even if he becomes, he becomes a disciple reluctantly. He resists, he fights, he doubts, he creates many ways to somehow escape. If he cannot, then helplessly he relaxes, but helplessly. The woman jumps joyously….The woman is immensely tethered to the body, to the substance, to the house. If man had been left alone, at the most there would have been tents but not houses. It is woman who has created civilisation, because without houses, there would be no civilisation....The woman is the substance of consciousness. Without a woman, the spirit cannot soar high. You don’t come across as many great women poets; that’s because woman inspires poetry with her presence, her love, her caring. Woman is equal to man, but she is not the SAME as man, and she should not be. She should follow her own nature, she should listen to her own soul. She has a different vibe, she has a different function to fulfill.