tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post3382705394509168286..comments2024-03-26T13:06:41.178-04:00Comments on Jagat: Sex Desire and Sahaja SadhanaJagadananda Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-74231597520132293902010-09-14T02:11:35.903-04:002010-09-14T02:11:35.903-04:00Thank you, Helitra, for your appreciation of the b...Thank you, Helitra, for your appreciation of the blog and also for your question. It is a good one and I will try to keep it simple.<br /><br />The essential answer is that the locus of meditation is the mind, which mediates between the external world (the body) and the pure self.<br /><br />I have tried to emphasize in earlier blogs the importance of the sadhaka-sadhika relationship. The fact is that everyone, male or female, is emanating a sexual vibe on both gross and subtle levels. This vibe, like a broadband connection, is both emanating and receiving information. <br /><br />In fact, telepathy is a possibility between sensitive human beings everywhere. Certainly the basest emotions – anger, fear, desire -- are all sensed by us on many levels, through both gross and subtle senses, but the strongest of these is sexual desire, because it is closest to the essential desires of the human being, and is transformable to a higher plane of consciousness and experience, i.e. prema.<br /><br />Therefore, we say that prema is the essence of the human being and that the rest of the primitive fountains – hunger, shelter, self-protection and reproduction – are external. Sex desire in this case should neither be confused with lust or reproduction; even though the latter may be considered higher than the former (lust in its most tamasic form), neither makes the most of sexuality's potential as a means of communication and cultivation of love.<br /><br />When we talk about sahaja sadhana we are talking about a spiritual practice makes use of this potential; it recognizes however that though this culture can only genuinely take place between two embodied persons, it involves far more than just the body. <br /><br />The beginning of prema comes with this telepathic contact. Recognition of this is one reason why the Sahajiyas traditionally held off from actually physical sexual contact for a good preparatory period before taking up the physical practices. In this period, one staggers the degrees of intimacy, adds the necessary culture of new meditational techniques, and develops physical detachment.<br /><br />Because we have so associated sexuality with orgasm in Western culture, most so-called tantric practices in the West only emphasize its efficacy in enhancing the pleasure of orgasm rather than in overcoming it. In actual fact, meditation as a sadhaka couple without direct sexual contact trains the mind and the physical body to become detached from the orgasm. <br /><br />When the orgasmic tendency is reversed and sexual desire sublimated, it brings about a stronger meditative focus. That focus is naturally directed toward the partner, who becomes like a living divinity. As the two partners’ feelings are intensified and refined, their telepathic connection also becomes intensified and sharpened like a laser.<br /><br />At this stage, since the experience of the partners is taking place on a subtler and subtler levels, actual physical contact makes less and less difference. <br /><br />Or, at least, let’s say that the intensity of physical union is directly experienced in relation to the intensity of the experience the sadhaka/sadhika have when not in actual physical contact.<br /><br />This is why the Vaishnava texts place so much emphasis on what they call “union in separation.” It is a culture without which union alone can be empty. <br /><br />Our whole problem with sexuality in general is that we experience it externally. In order to experience the full potential of our sexuality – i.e., prema – we must be wary of this externalization.<br /><br />Radhe Radhe. I hope this was helpful.Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-76595283642850378802010-09-12T08:19:22.300-04:002010-09-12T08:19:22.300-04:00"What is most amazing about this is that one ..."What is most amazing about this is that one does not even have to be in the physical presence of the other for this to take effect."<br /><br />Can u please clarify more . How one cannot be present for this? :O<br /><br />p.s. i like ur articles .very informative like the whole blog.helitrahttp://helitra.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com