Hi Ruchi! I think this is very interesting. A bit off the mark for me. But very interesting nonetheless. It isn’t a mistake that these “so called” masters have all been men. The lineage of Yoga is highly patriarchal. So is most of modern society.

Women have of course been advanced spiritual practitioners and leaders, but in spaces that are more marginalized and shadowy. And always persecuted and/or ridiculed for daring to attempt to hold any power. Think of the Salem witch trials. Think of Tantra. Think of the ways mysticism is STILL thought of as taboo today.

The fact that physically embodied females have, in large part, not been venerated as leaders is to do with historical and systemic patriarchy. And ego to be frank. Any man that has gone through a lineage and not acknowledged the powerful women around them, not attempted to balance out this imbalance by placing themselves in the company of powerful women, are imbalanced themselves. This is why you’ll see many “masters” such as sadguru begin to take advantage of their positions of power. They begin to believe that they are somehow superior. And that is a path to greater illusion, not freedom.

I don’t think it’s that women aren’t mastering their paths. I think it’s that they are quieter. Generally not elevated to the same stations as these men. And Certainly have been and remain left out of the lineage of yoga and its hierarchy.

And I think, much like some others have said, while yes the balance is internal and energetic, we are embodied consciousness and we DO have polarity within us as well. The path to enlightenment is Union. In my opinion. Internally AND externally. Society has a lot of work to do to bring the feminine up to where the masculine is. To honor feminine qualities as much as it does the masculine. To bring back balance.