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CHAPTER 19. RITUALS, FIRE AND KNOWLEDGE
You want to know why some people are born eunuchs who are neither men nor women, people who
may be called a third sex. The reason is the same. If the child in its embryonic form in the mother’s
womb has both male and female elements in equal proportion, then he cannot grow into one sex
clearly. Then the two equal elements will neutralize each other and the person will be a eunuch.
From time to time cases of sex-change have been reported. Usually their news is suppressed. It
has happened that a young man slowly changed into a young woman and vice versa. It was thought
to be accidental, a freak of nature. But now medical science knows how it happens, and is virtually
in a position even to effect such changes clinically.
In the recent past a very sensational case came before a court of law in London. The case was
that a young man and young woman were duly married as husband and wife. After they lived as
husband and wife for a few years, the woman’s sex underwent a change and she became a man.
The crux of the com plaint was that the woman was never a woman, she was a man and that she
deceived the young man by disguising her true sex.
The judges were in real difficulty to come to a correct judgment. The wife pleaded that she was
always a woman and that the change came later. At the time of the hearing of this case even
medical science was not clear about the matter. In the course of the last twenty-five or thirty years
many cases of sex change have come to light and physicians accept that it is possible. And science
is busy exploring this area with the help of such cases.
If the difference between one’s male and female elements is very small or marginal – say it is fifty-one
to forty-nine, then a change of sex can take place any time. It is just a question of chemical changes
taking place in one’s physiology. And with the discovery of hormones and synthetic hormones, the
day is not far off when medical science will bring about this change clinically.
Now it is not necessary that a man or woman should suffer the boredom of being man or woman
for good. He or she can have a change any time they want. It is just a matter of manipulating the
quantity of certain body chemicals and hormones. Soon we will see that a man turns into a woman
and a woman into man if they choose to. In fact, there is not much difference between man and
woman; the difference is rather quantitative.
The concept of God as ardhanarishwara says that the primeval source of creation is neither male
nor female or it is both. But I don’t say that a eunuch or an impotent person is nearer God as a
result. I don’t say so.
It is true, God is both man and woman, but this man or woman is not impotent. This difference
has to be kept in mind: while God is both male and female, the eunuch is neither; he is a negation
of both. While God is the presence, the affirmation of yin and yang, the eunuch is their absence,
their negation. Therefore the statue of ardhanarishwara is part male and part female. If it were a
eunuch we could have depicted it as such. God represents positivity; the eunuch is utter negativity.
The eunuch has no individuality and for this reason there is no end to his misery. Jesus does not
say that we should become eunuchs to attain to God, all he means to say is that we should neither
remain men nor women, and then we will be both together.
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