Sexual energy pleasure and Kundalini
Meditation leads our mind (and sexual energy) inwards and
upwards towards the divine consciousness where eternal peace and bliss reigns
supreme. On the other hand lust leads our mind outwards and downwards to gross
objects in order to experience pleasure and especially sex pleasure.
"Maya is only ‘lust and greed" ~ Paramahansa Ramakrishna
"A man has a thousand and one desires. But the
central strong desire is the sexual desire. The fundamental desire is the urge
for a mate. All hang on this central basic desire. The desire for money, the
desire for a son, the desire for property, the desire for houses, the desire
for cattle and other desires come later on". ~ Swami
Sivananda
All kind of suffering we experience in the world has as
core-cause the sexual pleasure. For a little ephemeral pleasure we
lose the kingdom of Peace and Bliss Divine". ~ Atman Nityananda
Lust was the original cause of the downfall of man from his
divine state called as paradise from the times of Adam and Eve. In the sexual energy
lies the key of man's transformation as a superhuman or divine human being. He
who has no control on his/her sexual energy and do not transforms his/her
sexual energy will never reach the superconscious state and the unity with the
eternal Spirit.
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus |
Jesus said: "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can
enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.".
Water in this case symbolize the sexual energy which must be
transformed and be directed upward through the spine in order to awaken the
latent serpent power of kundalini and the higher capacities of the
mind. Sexual energy is related with the second chakra (Swadhisthana) which
is related with the element of water. That's why sexual energy is related with
water.
Little later Jesus said: "Just as Moses lifted up
the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone
who believes may have eternal life in him."
Jesus in this case refers to kundalini as the snake
which lifted up Moses. Moses was also a great Mystic and enlightened Soul which
had great psychic powers due to the awakening of his
kundalini.
The bishops and patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Cristhian Church carry in their hands a stick that has at the top two snakes wrapped.
The bishops and patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Cristhian Church carry in their hands a stick that has at the top two snakes wrapped.
The
stick symbolize the shakti kundalini and the two snakes the two main channels
(nadis ida and pingala) that the sexual energy flows from the Muladhara chakra
towards the Sahashara chakra at the top of the head. But they ignore the true
meaning of this symbolic stick.
Without the transformation of sexual energy the awakening of
shakti kundalini and profound meditation and deeper samadhis are impossible.
Thus Self-realization and liberation is impossible too. Spirituality it
is not a matter of good intentions but an actual transformation of mind, heart
and sexual energy.
There are two ways to transform the sexual energy celibacy.
Both are difficult and for both the main requisite is purity of mind and
especially of sexual lust and passion (lasciviousness). Both methods have
their own difficulties and particularities. Due to the very fact that
sexual lust this age is very strong it is very difficult for the aspirants to
achieve sexual purity and make tantric love. Moreover there are not real
teachers are capable to teach the original tantra. Nowadays in the west tantra is very
famous and has appeared many teachers that teach sexual tantra. But what they
teach is more a way for more intimate relations and a more refine way of pleasure;
it is not the original tantra. Most of them they consider the orgasm as a part
of the tantra. They are mistaken.
In the original tantra the orgasm is prohibited. To lose our
sexual energy is to commit suicide. In the sexual energies there are the most
precious substances that are produced in the body.
Our body is a wonderful alchemistic factory. It consumes
gross matter and transforms it into various tissues, substances and energies.
The food we eat (water also and air) after successive transformations (eight
transformations***) is transformed finally into sexual energy that is the
most subtle and refined energy in the body.
This is and alchemistic process by which the earth, water, fire and air we consume
by a serie of various transformations becomes finally sexual energy and very
subtle substances, the ojas and tejas. Ojas and tejas are two of the most
important energies that are related to health (physical, vital, emotional and
mental health), but they are also most important for spiritual transformation,
development and self-realization.
We need a lot of ojas and tejas to achieve
the awakening of kundalini and higher states of consciousness and samadhi. We
need to increase and refine by spiritual practices the ojas and tejas that is
produced by the alchemistic process in the body and lead them into the brain.
Since ojas is related with the sexual energy and ojas is the fuel for tejas we must preserve the sexual energy
by avoiding the orgasmic spasm which is discharge of the liquid and the sexual energy. By the
orgasmic discharge we throw out of our
system the most precious energy for our
regeneration and transformation. Of course we can waste and unbalance the
sexual energy the ojas and tejas by various other ways. Excessive, distorted
mental, emotional function and excessive, distorted usage of body and the
senses deplete the sexual energy and disturb the balanced production and function
of ojas and tejas. Thus it is not only necessary to avoid the orgasm but also
to bring a balance to all levels of our existence and purify or detoxify them
by the physical, vital, emotional and mental toxins. For this purpose an integral
regular sadhana and a sattvic way of living must be followed.
There are no half measures in spirituality. We cannot have both,
the pleasure of sexual orgasm and the realization of God consciousness. Jesus
said it like this: "You cannot cannot serve both God and
money". That means that we cannot have or achieve both; Self-realization
and sensual pleasures. We must make a choice. Are we willing to
abandon pleasures for the sake of our transformation and divinization or we
want to continue as samsaric entities subject in pleasure and suffering,
diseases, birth, decay and death?
Humans on earth after their downfall of the unified state of
consciousness and their identification with the gross physical body forgot
their divine nature and started to be engaged in the pursuit of sensual
pleasures and most of all sexual pleasure. This phenomenon life after life has
become more and more intensified and perverted in many ways. Our civilization
has become a factory that intents to satisfy the innumerable desires for
pleasure. All industry works to invent new ways of entertainment and pleasure.
All this seeking for pleasure originates in the
sexual pleasure. All kind of pleasure and any sense satisfaction we seek
through all senses are only substitutes of the sexual pleasure.
Sexual pleasure has been crystallized in us as lust and
desire for sexual pleasure. The lust functions as an impulse which compulsively
seeks again and again to experience sex pleasure.
Desire is the memory of pleasure.” ~ Nisargadatta
"Lust is like the root of the tree, and desires are
branches and twigs.". ~ Paramahansa Ramakrishna
Since it is impossible for us to gratify this urge for sexual
pleasure continuously because the sexual and vital energy in our system has
limits, each time the desire for sex arises in us (for different reasons*),
the lust seeks some substitute in order to get some kind of pleasure which will
replace to some extend the sexual pleasure.
The transfer of sexual pleasure to other objects was also
found by Dr. Freud**, He said about this:
"The sexual instincts are remarkable for their
plasticity, for the facility with which they can change their aim...for the ease
with which they can substitute one form of gratification for another' (Freud
1938).
The food is the first and the more adequate substitute of
sexual pleasure because the genitals and the mouth are interconnected, (they
are made from the same tattva). Food also in itself gives as pleasant
sensations and thus lust easily projects itself as pleasure on the foods. This
projection of pleasure on the foods happens unconsciously and the majority of
earthlings are incapable to be conscious of this process. Thus deluded by the
lust they think that the pleasure that experience derives from the food while
is only a projection of the accumulated i our psych pleasure-energy.
Food, cigarettes, drinks, and all kind of substances we can
taste by the mouth are used by lust as substitutes of sexual pleasure. By
looking women/men in TV, magazines, internet, in the streets, at our job place
are also ways that lust gratifies in some way the sexual pleasure. Sexual
dreams is also another way that lust satisfies itself when cannot find
satisfaction during the waking state.
Lust is illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented; That's why sexual fantasies are innumerable or
infinite. Lust hypnotizes the intellect and its capacity to reason, to discern
and control the mind and senses and uses the mind's capacities to find new
ways to satisfy its insatiable thirst for pleasure.
Mind plays havoc through desires. As soon as a desire
arises, you think you will get all happiness by its realization". ~ Swami Sivananda
Pain is the background of all your pleasures. You want them
because you suffer. On the other hand, the very search for pleasure is the
cause of pain. It is a vicious circle.”
"Of course pain after pleasure may be due to the misuse
of the body or the mind. The body knows its measure, but the mind does not. Its
appetites are numberless and limitless”
~ Nisargadatta
~ Nisargadatta
"Q: Why should pleasure be the seed of pain?
Nisargadatta: Because for the sake of pleasure you are
committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death."
Moreover most of our social behaviour are directly or
indirectly related with sexuality. The cloths, the perfumes, the hair dressing
and everything that is related with appearances is mainly not to say totally
related with sexuality.
Social behaviour is also related with our self-image and
self-worthiness but if we go deeply enough will see that the basis of our
self-image is also related with sexuality.
"Passion reigns supreme in all parts of the world. The
minds of people are filled with sexual thoughts. The world is all sexy. The
whole world is under a tremendous sexual intoxication. All are deluded and move
in the world with perverted intellects." ~ Swami Sivananda
"A man cannot see God unless he gives his whole mind to
Him. The mind is wasted on 'woman and gold".
~
Paramahansa Ramakrishna
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NOTE:
for different reasons* It is not possible always to have sex pleasure for different
reasons. Bad health, we have not a partner, we are tired, low sexual energy for
different reasons (we lose a lot of sexual energy by the orgasm, bad health,
etc.), we are in an inappropriate environment or circumstances and for many
other reasons.
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Dr. Freud** had
also found that sexuality plays a major role in human life and that is related
with human behaviour as well as with human neurosis and other
psychological imbalances, and he had right;
He named this unconscious impulse for sexual pleasure and
any kind of sense pleasure id.
According Freud the id is the impulsive and
unconscious part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the
instincts including the sex (life) instinct.
It operates on the pleasure principle which is the idea that
every wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the
consequences.
The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this
happens we experience pleasure, when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or
pain.
The id engages in primary process thinking, which is
primitive illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented.
Impatience, like-dislike, anger, hatred, anxiety, fear and
depression are the emotions that are directly related with the id.
Dr.Freud investigated people with psychological disturbances
and diseases but he didn't study yogis, saints or people of a high level of
consciousness. He didn't also invastigate the positive aspects or the spiritual
aspects of sexuality as well as he didn't investigate the higher capacities of
the human mind and the Soul.
Nevertheless he was a pioneer for his age and he gave us a
very deep knowledge about the human subconscious mind and its disfunctioning;
this knowledge at some degree can be very useful for anyone who works for the
dissolution of his egoic mind and the desire mechanism.
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transformations***): To summarize, dhatus (tissues) account for the ayurvedic explanation of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Our body processes consumed food and transforms it into life sap, which in turn creates a chain of further body tissues i.e. dhatus. Their gain gives quality to our life and their loss destroys life.
Ayurveda recognises shukra (semen, ovum) as the most important dhatu. It states that one needs a hundred drops of blood (rakta) to produce one drop of semen (shukra). Shukra is the essence of all the body tissues and is that creation of mother nature which has the capacity to produce new life. In any case, it should not be wasted without substantial reason (i.e. reproduction).
Agni plays a vital role in the creation and maintenance of body tissues (dhatus). The human body is made up of seven basic tissues or vital substances called dhatus. The meaning of the sanskrit word dhatu is ‘that which binds together’. Dhatu is the element which constructs our body. Dhatu is the base of growth and survival. Dhatus take different forms in our body to maintain life. Different organs (sharir avayavas) and different body systems (strotasas) are made out of dhatus. Our nourishment and development is fully dependent on dhatus.
Ayurveda believes that there are seven dhatus in all. They are: life sap (rasa), blood (rakta), muscles (mansa), fatty tissue (med), bones (asthi), bone marrow and nervous tissue (majja) and semen and reproductive system (shukra). Each dhatu has its own agni i.e. dhatu-agni. Our food intake is converted into life sap by agni of rasa dhatu and rasa dhatu is produced. Likewise, agni of rakta dhatu prepares rakta out of rasa and so on. Every dhatu is a precursor of the next dhatu. Rasa is transformed into rakta, rakta prepares mansa, mansa is further transformed into meda, meda is used to make asthi, asthi forms majja and majja produces the ultimate dhatu i.e. shukra.
Disorder in doshas (vaat-pitta-kafa) affects dhatus. These affected or defective dhatus hamper the quality of life. Proper diet (ahar) and proper life style (vihar) help in maintaining the balance of doshas and in producing healthy dhatus.
Dhatus protect our body from external encounters. They are responsible for our immune mechanism. If there is wasting (kshaya) of dhatus then the body construction collapses and ultimately life ends.
http://www.nzhealth.net.nz/ayurveda/dhatus.shtml
Ayurveda recognises shukra (semen, ovum) as the most important dhatu. It states that one needs a hundred drops of blood (rakta) to produce one drop of semen (shukra). Shukra is the essence of all the body tissues and is that creation of mother nature which has the capacity to produce new life. In any case, it should not be wasted without substantial reason (i.e. reproduction).
Agni plays a vital role in the creation and maintenance of body tissues (dhatus). The human body is made up of seven basic tissues or vital substances called dhatus. The meaning of the sanskrit word dhatu is ‘that which binds together’. Dhatu is the element which constructs our body. Dhatu is the base of growth and survival. Dhatus take different forms in our body to maintain life. Different organs (sharir avayavas) and different body systems (strotasas) are made out of dhatus. Our nourishment and development is fully dependent on dhatus.
Ayurveda believes that there are seven dhatus in all. They are: life sap (rasa), blood (rakta), muscles (mansa), fatty tissue (med), bones (asthi), bone marrow and nervous tissue (majja) and semen and reproductive system (shukra). Each dhatu has its own agni i.e. dhatu-agni. Our food intake is converted into life sap by agni of rasa dhatu and rasa dhatu is produced. Likewise, agni of rakta dhatu prepares rakta out of rasa and so on. Every dhatu is a precursor of the next dhatu. Rasa is transformed into rakta, rakta prepares mansa, mansa is further transformed into meda, meda is used to make asthi, asthi forms majja and majja produces the ultimate dhatu i.e. shukra.
Disorder in doshas (vaat-pitta-kafa) affects dhatus. These affected or defective dhatus hamper the quality of life. Proper diet (ahar) and proper life style (vihar) help in maintaining the balance of doshas and in producing healthy dhatus.
Dhatus protect our body from external encounters. They are responsible for our immune mechanism. If there is wasting (kshaya) of dhatus then the body construction collapses and ultimately life ends.
http://www.nzhealth.net.nz/ayurveda/dhatus.shtml
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THE VALUE OF SEMEN
Swami Sivananda
THE VALUE OF SEMEN
Swami Sivananda