"Man has to seek, man has to go, man has to conquer. Even God has to be conquered, nature has to be conquered, truth has to be conquered.

"Both have failed, because both are partial; they had to fail. The East has failed tremendously, as tremendously as the West has failed – because man is not only male and man is not only female. Man is both…and more. Man is both the yin and yang. And a greater religion, a far more synthetical religion is needed in which the East and West will lose their old conflict.

"Steiner is the representative of the Western mind. He revolted against theosophy and created a new school, anthroposophy. Theosophy was Eastern: Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Leadbeater and Olcott. They had searched in the East, in the old scriptures, traditions, old masters, and they had come to a certain conclusion about the East: that if you surrender, God happens.

"Theosophy means: 'theo' means God, 'sophy' means love. You simply live like a woman. You wait, you remain in a welcoming mood. Only that welcoming mood is needed, and God penetrates you. You become the feminine and he becomes the male. That is the allegory of Krishna and his girlfriends. Krishna is God, the male; and the seeker, the devotee, is a female, a girlfriend, a gopi. One has to become feminine to reach to God – that has been the essential core of Eastern thought, religion, philosophy.

"Steiner revolted against it. First he was a theosophist, but by and by he became aware that this was not possible for him to accept. He created a new movement against theosophy, a new school. He called it 'anthroposophy.' 'Anthrop' means man, 'theo' means God. Theosophy is love of God, anthroposophy is love of man. He placed man in the very center. God is not in the center of his thinking, man is at the center.

"For theosophy, God is at the center: Krishna playing on his flute, and man is dancing the dance around him – the girlfriends, the gopis. Man is on the periphery, God is at the center. He turned the whole thing upside down: he put man in the center, man becomes the central thing."