Is God He or She? A Deeper Look Beyond Gender

I was recently asked a simple but profound question:
“Why is God always called HE?”

My first response was straightforward — because historically, we have lived in a male-dominated world where spiritual knowledge, scriptures, and teachings were mostly written, interpreted, and disseminated by men. When one gender controls communication, naturally the Divine begins to be addressed in the language familiar to them.

But that is only the surface.

If we look deeper into our history, we find countless women saints, mystics, and realized souls whose contributions rarely reach the mainstream. Their names were often overshadowed, their teachings minimized, and their spiritual authority questioned—even though their inner realization was no less profound than their male counterparts.

Culturally, certain sayings also emerged—like the idea that a woman cannot attain moksha,
and must serve her husband to be reborn as a man before liberation becomes possible. These thoughts reflect society’s bias, not spiritual truth.

Yet, India is also a land where the Divine Feminine has always been worshipped with immense reverence. For Bengalis, God is Maa Durga—a powerful mother who protects, nurtures, and destroys negativity.
My own family deity is Durga, and throughout my childhood, I grew up visiting the Sarkara Temple, a sacred Devi temple.

So how can we say God is only “He”?

Over time, through my practices, meditations, Reiki healing, and inner experiences, I have realized something very clearly: The Divine speaks in both voices.
The masculine and the feminine are not opposites — they are complementary expressions of the same Supreme Consciousness.

Shiva and Shakti are not two. They are one energy in two forms. Just as the fire and heat cannot be separated, the Supreme cannot be divided into “He” or “She.”

When we rise above body, identity, and conditioning, we begin to understand:
God is not a gender. God is Consciousness.
Sometimes fierce, sometimes gentle.
Sometimes guiding like a father, sometimes comforting like a mother.

And in my own journey, I have received messages, insights, and guidance from both aspects — the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine.

The day we stop limiting God to a gender, we will finally begin to understand the true nature of the Divine — limitless, boundless, and beyond form.