"If you can find some channel through which you can be in tune with it, then the rest of your life is as Mother Teresa said," he says. "I mean, I think about Abraham Lincoln at one point when he was fighting for the country, but really trying to grapple with the critics on both sides." In India, we like to think of that relationship with the Creator Force as you're the child and that's the mother. It is unconditionally loving. And an orphan God therefore is represented more in a feminine form. That's more common in the West.

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