In plain words
For woman, the sāttvika is foremost. The word ‘strī’ is made of the letters sa, ra and ta. Sa is the sāttvika guṇa: woman. ‘Ta’: shyness, modesty and qualities like these were there. ‘Ta’ means the quality of making any sacrifice at the very last. ‘Ra’ is rajoguṇa: women are not merely the weak. Woman's birth is a very great one. They call our country the motherland; they do not say fatherland. First of all they say mother. When some mishap befalls and they fall down, they cry ‘Ammā!’; but ‘Appā!’ they do not cry. This womankind creates even God. Without Kausalyā, could Rāma have been born? If there were no Devakī, could Kṛṣṇa have been born? Women are the root cause even of the creation of God.
By the principle of Prema the Gopīs could make the Supreme Principle their own
Today the devotee creates God. God creates the devotee. Whatever power God has, the devotee has that same power of creation. There is no one who creates God. But the devotee does create God. By that Bhakti and surrender he makes even God, whose power is infinite, appear before him. There are two paths to this. One is anurāga, the second is Prema. All the relationships in the world belong to anurāga, not to Prema. Anurāga means this: through desires for things we have formed relationships. Because it is formed by rāga, it was called anurāga. But that is not Prema. If a wife loves her husband, she loves him for her own interest. If a husband loves his wife, he loves her for his own interest. If a mother loves her child, she loves for the mother's own interest. In all of them there is self-interest, more or less. This is bound up with rāga. That is why all this was called ‘anurāga’. In every kind of situation, in relationships of every kind, anurāga is there in full, but the principle of Prema is not. We must make this Prema flow towards God alone. In it, self-interest is nothing. What is for the other is Satya.