The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

The quote argues that motherhood is not simply a continuation of womanhood but an emergent identity brought into existence by the child’s birth. Rajneesh distinguishes between a biological person (“the woman existed”) and a relational, existential reality (“the mother”) that only becomes real through a new bond and responsibility. The phrasing suggests that identity is event-based and relational: certain forms of selfhood cannot be possessed in advance, only enacted when circumstances call them forth. It also elevates motherhood as a creative, transformative threshold—something qualitatively new—rather than a mere social label or duty.