Hello folks. Welcome to lesson #418 in pert -5's 'Demystification of Yoga' series.
Well, to put it bluntly, chastity is for suckers. The reason that sexual activity is chided in the Vedas is that sex and lust tend to provoke excitement and lack of focus of the mind, which is very, very bad for the practice of Yoga. (As an aside: harboring sexual thoughts is the same as doing the acts themselves in regards to Yoga.) Thus the goal is that you do not want to be excited by the act. Vairagya. Think about when you buy milk at the grocery store. When you buy milk, do you stroke the bottle while waiting in the checkout line? Do you whisper, "oh what I'm going to do to you. I can not wait to feel your calcium-rich coldness flow down my throat and settle in my tummy." Do you dream of the milk at night as you sleep? NO! You go to the store and buy the damn milk. And so it should be with sex.
Mind you, I am not saying to objectify your sexual partner. To view them as merely an object. Quite the contrary. When you look at your sexual partner, see that they are a Goddess, or God. They are an incarnation of Brahman, as you are. Their Atman is the same as your Atman. In viewing them thus it is then possible to view the act of sex as a Holy ritual unto the splendor of God, of the Silent Witness, the All-begetter. The act does not become this ritual just because you say it is so, you must intuit that it is so from within the very fiber of your being. Formalities aside, I have something more to add to this particular lesson.
I'm going to say it flat out. Sex, or in my case women, is what makes the world go round. Think about it. Why did man go to the moon? You think Armstrong was saying to himself, "oh boy, they're gonna cheer for me when I do this!"? No! He knew he'd get lots of women when he did it. What about Einstein? Do you think he discovered E=mc2 to impress his buddies? Heck no! He did it because he was thinking about all of the hot science women with their hot, thin-framed glasses. Do you think Columbus crossed the Atlantic looking for trade routes? Come on! He knew he'd be famous if he succeeded and get lots of women. He didn't care about popularizing the year 1492.
Now, I'm a heterosexual male, so I'm not too hip as to the homosexual thing. But I do know one thing. If two people of the same sex are together, and one person is happy and they make the other person happy, well, then I'm happy. And shame in one's sexuality is the most vile thing that I would ever hope to utter on mine lips. I say damn that shame to the ages! Spit! Damn that shame to hell! And rapists and pedophiles, they can all go to hell with Hitler and that thing, who I will not defile the pixels of my monitor by naming, who killed John Lennon, as well as all of the other scumbags whom this planet has had the misfortune of hosting. Screw them. Every person is a manifestation of that which all of us are a manifestation of. Forcing yourself on another is a treason against humanity, it is a treason against the self. Damn it to hell!
Anyway, sex isn't just about the formulation of the Ankh, i.e. the perpetuation of the species. Sex is the culmination of everything that is pure and beautiful in the world. You might not find these sentiments in any Upanishad or Gita, but they work for me, and can work for you.
Namaste
Topic: The Yoga, Sex, and Other Things (Read 731 times)
May 13, 2009, 04:59:58 PM
