What is the Holy Spirit in Christian Prayers?

During Baptism, Holy Communion and other occasions in Church you may have heard the prayer, ‘In the Name of The Father, Of the Son and of The Holy Spirit”. Amen.

What does “The Holy Spirit’ represent in this trinity? The Father denotes the Creator, the Son Jesus and the third one? A Catholic Priest and friend of mine Lucas Jozef told me it refers to The Spirit of God.

When I asked a few people following the Christian faith they also said the same. However, the well-known spiritual writer, Ruzbeh N Barucha has a different interpretation of The Holy Spirit. He says it is the Goddess Energy. With out the Mother Energy, the Father as well as well as Son are dormant energies. (Courtesy: The Musk Syndrome, Penguin India).

Except perhaps Hinduism and Buddhism, a number of religions have down played the role of the Goddess Energy. ”Zorastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to name a few, but the fact remains that if God is the Father and Christ is the Son, then there has to be a mother, and the Holy Spirit is the Mother Energy, according to Ruzbeh Barucha.

Bhagwan Rajneesh also took exception to the Christian view of God as masculine which is opposed to the feminine in Hindu pantheon. The Sanskrit word for Holy is Bhagavati, the feminine of Bhagavan, Osho writes in his book Hridayam Sutra. In Buddhism there is the Yin and Yang, the female and the male energy which is missing in Christianity.

Osho said father is an unnatural institution and a result of private property while the mother is natural and exists everywhere. We call our country motherland but the western concept is father land which is male chauvinistic, according to Osho.

Lord Shiva is nothing (but a Shav) without the Shakti, the Goddess energy, perhaps the reason why you find Ardhanareeswara, the androgynous figure of Lord Shiva and Parvati being worshipped in temples and homes.

I look forward to different interpretations about the Holy Spirit, if there are any. Amen.