"Bauls belong to the second approach, just as Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu belong to the second approach. Mahavira and Patanjali belong to the first approach.

"The male mind seeks and searches for God as if God is somewhere else and has to be discovered. The feminine mind simply prays and waits. The feminine mind trusts that: 'When I am ready, God will come to me.' It is God who comes, not the seeker who goes to God. And, in fact, how can you seek God? You don't know him, you don't know his address, you don't know the direction, you don't know the definition. And even if you come across him, how are you going to recognize him? Because recognition is possible only if you have known him before.

"All search in a way is futile. And because of the male mind, atheism has become very predominant in the world. It is the failure of the male mind that atheism has become so prevalent. In the West atheism has become really the greatest religion – because the West is male oriented. The very orientation is of conquering – as if there is a fight between man and God, as if there is a tussle, a wrestling. In the West the result of this effort has been only that God has completely disappeared. Nietzsche declared, 'God is dead.' Nietzsche is the very essence of the male mind: will to power, will to dominate, will to possess. If you search for him too much, your very search will become a barrier.

"There have been a few people who have attained through that approach also – a Mahavira, a Patanjali – but those cases are rare, and the struggle is very long and unnecessary. God comes to you. God is always coming to you. The Bauls say, 'It is not you who seek him, it is he who is seeking you. It is not that you pray to him, he is praying to you. Listen! Be passive, accept. He is knocking on the door, and inside the room you are so occupied in searching and seeking that you cannot listen to the knock.' Man cannot seek God; only God can seek man."