Women Sannysins and the Spiritual Path

1992

                                                                                                                                            The female sannyasin with no sexual expression or relationship how will she benefit from female sexuality?

     "Ah, my girl, it is good.  It is good, to make a point.  A woman may be celibate or may be sexual in marriage, either way she must develop her glandular system.  What does it mean?  She must bring her entire glandular structure to maximum development.  There should be no sluggishness, no underdevelopment.  When a woman marries and bears children certain hormones are generated which increase and enhance some sub glands, causing psychological maturation.  If she is spiritually ready this will bring stimulations of proper hormones and glands will became matured.

Now in the celibate process it is different but the same development must occur.  How in a woman?  She must take her Lord as her Beloved.  He must become the one to whom she surrenders all, gives all.  She must develop the love of a mother for her child and the surrender of a woman.  It is done internally.  That is the difference.  The external events are not sought.  She does not engage in external actions.  She does not take husband.  She does not bear child.  But in her heart she expands her sentiment as the spiritually inclined woman does in marriage.  By avoiding the external experience she concentrates her psychic force and directs it to Parama Purusa.  But it must be directed properly.  A woman sannyasi should not close her heart and become dry.  She must immerse herself in love.  She must become the bride of her Beloved.  She should give her all in surrender to Parama Purusa as must the married woman.  Only the external act is not there. But internally her heart must be surrendered in love. If this is done maturation will surely occur even without the sexual partner. Is it understood? The love of the mother should also come over time.  "O Lord you are all around me, in the helpless child, in the old and frail, in the hungry and downtrodden.  Let me love you and protect you as I would my own child."  Like this the love of a mother will come.  Devotion to the Supreme is the key.  Take your feminine heart and desires and love your Supreme Father with your all being and you will find the same growth and development, the same softness and sweetness that a woman may get through her family.  Expand your heart.  It is the key.  The same result can be had without the external relationship.

       But the sannyasis must guard against a dry heart.  If the heart is dry you must do kiirtan, puja, do practices of devotion.  Make the heart sweet and filled with love.  To be celibate and cut off the sexual energies and natural inclinations only for a strict life of discipline and ritual will surely make a dry and undeveloped woman.  It is no path for a lady.  Make your heart fresh.  Fill it with the fragrance of love.  Dance before your Beloved and sing to Him.  Charm Him with your sweetness and call Him to you with a woman's heart, filled with love and surrendered.  Charm Him so that He will come and love you. The nectar of that love will make you sweet and happy.  All benefit will be had. Sexuality will be transmuted to spiritual love. This is the path of the female sannyasin.  Then there will be no problem.  It is sufficient."