"You must have heard the name of Radha. Mythologically she is known to be the most beloved woman of Krishna. He had many lovers; Radha was the suprememost. But historically there has never been any woman by the name of Radha, and in the ancient scriptures her name is not mentioned at all. It is an invention of later mystics, later sages, and it has tremendous significance; it will be good to understand it.

"In Sanskrit there is a word, dhara, which means the river moving from the source towards the ocean. If you reverse the word dhara it becomes radha. Radha means the river moving towards the origin, not towards the ocean; radha is a metaphor. And one can be a beloved of God only if one turns the whole process of life – from being a dhara one becomes a radha, not moving towards the goal but going deeper and deeper down towards the source. And the source is within you. The goal is without, the source, within. The source is your very being.

"But mind is aggressive – it wants to explore, it wants to go on adventures, it wants to know that which is not known, it wants to demystify existence. It wants to conquer, it is on a journey of conquest. Mind is masculine, basically masculine, and through the mind there is no way towards godliness.

"One has to become feminine. One has to become receptive rather than being aggressive. One has to learn the art of relaxation rather than learning the strategies of how to conquer the world and the reality. Truth is not going to be a conquest, it is going to be a total surrender. One has to become a host, one has to open up, one has to be just a receptivity so the wind can come in, the rain can come in, the sun can come in. And just hidden behind the sun and the rain and the wind one day comes the guest. And the guest does not come from the outside, it arises within you. Godliness is the guest. But you have to be a host first, you have to learn the art of being a host."