Jai Jai Sankar’.
Salutations !! I am glad to receive the beautiful and hilarious cards you send from various centres. They allow me to peep into your joyous heart and relaxed mood within. Now to the question that people ask “Sex and Spiritual life”. Sex is natural; even a necessity while functioning and remaining in the P.F.T level of Consciousness. Let people make no great deal about it: be natural and forget all about it: it is perhaps to them a relief from inner tensions – let them. But to a Sadhak (seeker) control is the law. Even here he should not feel highly taunt …… it should not become a suppression. Sex is to be sublimated intelligently. This can be done.
The sastras explain a Plan with 3 schemes : A Control of raw material B. Conservation of what is produced and C. Transmutation of the seed-power. Control ----- includes food, feelings, contacts, company etc. Conservation ----- attitude to the other as mother (father) as sister (brother), as Devi (Deva) the Lord. Also refusing to indulge : cold shower : keep clean: and constant feeling of His Holy presence around you. Transmutation ----- Deep thinking & vigorous meditation are moments when the seed-power (OJAS) gets converted into “brilliance” (TEJAS) of the saint. Even research scholars, deep thinking mathematicians etc are relatively found less inclined to sex- interest. When meditations are not regular, ‘have heavy food, live in luxurious and sensuous environment’ ------ in such cases the individual returns to lower levels of awareness. With this the sex-idea again lifts its fangs. Reconversion of OJAS (sex) to TAIJAS (Spiritual Glow) is achieved through meditation - deep & devoted , sustained & long , steady & silent. Till you reach to explode into the higher, Sex is a Charm, a Joy which nature provides for the work of reproduction. But when you make the sex energy flow upward and inward , the reward is Bliss Infinite. In such a person sex never troubles, as it did not when we were children. Thereafter a sex act is not anything to ponder over, to regret, or to applaud. When nose is full blow it out !!! (SD) Swami Chinmayananda
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