* SGAS UK * December 2006 * ISSUE NO: 12 *

  Editorial

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Once again it is an immense joy to share the spiritual wisdom bequeathed by Swami Paramananda. His Holiness uses a wide range of means to kindle the desire for spiritual quest in people and thus trigger the process of self knowledge and inner transformation – these means are deployed through his written books, talks on meditation during his visits to different countries, video conferencing…The list is endless as His Holiness is constantly publishing different materials to bring global awareness.


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Sexuality

The most sacred thing is not always exposed; it is often hidden and at times invisible. God is invisible and is the most sacred thing. Sexual union is sacred as it is the means to procreate, but we have degraded it by not respecting it and by doing it at times in public places where we are peeped. When the Lord procreated to give birth to the universe, nobody was there. The seed germinates in the recesses of the soil; innumerable events on the microscopic as well as the macroscopic level are hidden, invisible, thus non-profane and hence sacred.

Similarly, the sexual organ is not exposed to the eyes of one and all. However, the ugly happening is that sex has become a taboo, though being sacred. It is the source of love, life and on the macroscopic level, it is the base of the whole existence. Such a sacred thing as sex has been turned into a taboo - why? Maybe the reason is that it is the power that will make man a god. Mystics say that the sexual energy can be transformed and its effect can lead man to have a very developed mind, so much so that the sexual energy can contribute to lead man to cosmic consciousness. Therefore it is natural to kill this possibility that will create a free man, not a slave. Man can be commanded only when he is weak, and man is so weak as far as sex is concerned that he is easily manipulated.

In my opinion, the taboo around sex has been created to retain man in a stagnant state. But such a cunningness and sin cannot last for long. One day man’s understanding of sex will grow so much that he will no longer be a slave to it. This wisdom will cause his energy to move upward and will make him an illumined being. He will have enough fuel to make his mind stay in a state of constant awakening. That will be the day of real celebration, for it is only when one is free that one can celebrate. The pouring of water on the Shiva Lingam is symbolical of transcendence of the sex energy.

Even in the third millennium, sexuality is perhaps the subject of greatest taboo. Human being is the greatest miracle-maker. Every problem is created by us and the solution too rests in our hand. Man is sexual from head to toe, yet he wants to escape from it when the subject comes on the table. Every cell of our body has been made from sexual energy and sexual orgasm. Pleasure is fundamentally the same, but through the sexual contact, one touches such an intensity and subtlety of pleasure that we are irresistibly drawn towards it. The big question mark remains though we have reached considerable height in scientific research. Mystics, however, have gone very deep into the subject to discover the secret that lies behind the appearance.

In the East, they have even invented methods to go deep into sex in order to have a greater understanding. They have called this Tantra. The mystics say that the pleasure achieved through sexual union is basically divine. A glimpse of God is tasted when the sexual act reaches the ultimate point called coitus. Said in another way, through sexual intercourse, one can peep through eternity for a split second. Our sexual energy is produced from food, the intake of oxygen, sunlight and the mind. One cell from the male and one from the female form a complete human being. Their meeting at the physical level releases energy from both sides. Therefore, we meet on a gross level, then on a subtle level. The gross level is bodily embrace while the subtle level is the love that is shared. Furthermore, the vital fluid and the sperm, which are the essence of the man, and the ovum, which is the vitality of the woman, meet too - this is the subtle union.

However, the meeting is so momentary that we hardly feel the pleasure of a deep union. It is one of the most fundamental reasons why we are so obsessed by it. If we eat very little, then we will want food every now and then. It will become a habit. Nowadays sex has become a bad habit. It is done with a sense of guilt. When there is much love between the persons who have sex, then the moment of pleasure increases and one becomes less obsessed by it. The result is that the energy starts moving upward. In fact, the purpose of the sexual energy is to procreate and to act as fuel for meditation. Actually, we procreate and waste the rest of the energy in habit and obsession. Through meditation, one can have much more joy of the same quality and that joy can be increased to such an extent so as to create an explosion of our being. This is called samadhi in the East, which can be translated as cosmic consciousness.

Man is a strange being: he toils a lot to feed himself, then the energy he has produced is thrown out as waste by a moment of excitation. An iota of the energy can produce a complete human being who could be an Einstein, a Vivekanand, a Jesus or a Krishna! What will be the outcome if the whole potential is transformed?

Both man and woman possess male and female aspects. Their union is meant to produce the union of the inner man and woman without depending on each other on a bodily basis to attain the same orgasm as in sexual union. Both man and woman are complementary to each other. Marriage was meant to be a mutual consent between people of the same level of vibration to help each other to attain oneness with the Whole by uniting the inner male and female principles or by uniting the positive and negative poles. But alas! Wrong knowledge and lack of discipline has made sex a taboo.

Sexuality or sexual union is the mergence of the positive and negative but also the complementary elements of nature for the evolution of life. When the gross level is united, procreation is the result. When the meeting is subtle, illumination is the result. Darkness-light, matter-energy, male-female are opposite yet complementary aspects upon whose basis the drama of creation is being played. God is in an eternal sexual intercourse in the form of matter-energy, Satti-Shiva, darkness-light. This is the reason why the process of creation is eternal.

The sexual energy should be saved and transformed so as to attain the apex of joy, which frees one from all forms of suffering. This, however, does not mean sexual repression - one has to go through it, know it deeply and then transcend it. Sexual union is the first rung in the ladder of spiritual evolution. Meditation and illumination are the ultimate rungs. Without proper sex education, no religious or spiritual evolution is possible. Gradually as the sexual fluid is transformed, the mind becomes powerful and pure. Geniuses can be produced in a greater number if the sexual energy is transformed. Meditation is the only science that can bring about this transformation and it should start at the age of puberty when the sex centre starts operating. Sexual intercourse should be for procreation and experience of bliss and thus Divinity. One should not be a slave to it. In our actual civilisation, sex has become such a problem that one feels like carrying a burden and one seeks an opportunity to unload oneself from it. Sexual relation nowadays amounts to sneezing.

Man conceals infinite possibility. By using the sexual energy, he can open a great door. The snake around the neck of Lord Shiva symbolises the sexual energy. Observe the Shiva Lingam and you will notice a snake coiled around it. It symbolises the kundalini power or the vital energy in both man and woman, because the Shiva Lingam is both a male and female symbol. One of the significations of the sacred thread or janev of the Hindu is to remind the young student of the importance of celibacy, which means the transformation of the vital fluid. Sex or sexual union is a sacred thing and should be regarded as such - only then one can be free from its obsession. My own realisation and advice is to go through it and use it as a means to attain cosmic consciousness.

 



 

The Knowledge that liberates

Knowledge, knowing and known are derived from the key or root word ‘know.’ Knowledge is the known expressed into thoughts, ideas or in words. Knowing is a state of the faculty or still the experience of reality. There are two kinds of knowledge: one comes from external sources like bookish knowledge, and the other comes from within or from experience. For example, science says that sunlight has seven main colours (vibgyor) because scientists have observed it through apparatus. It is their experience which we also call first-hand experience. If the student of physics comes forward and proclaims the same without any experimentation, that will be borrowed knowledge or knowledge that comes from outside.

Such kind of learning or knowledge can make one become a great pandit or scholar. Nowadays, the earth is full of such kind of people. In this regard, nearly all people can be called intelligent. People are prisoners of such kind of knowledge. They are heavily loaded with it and this prevents them from getting real knowledge which makes one become enlightened and thus achieve liberation from all forms of suffering. The master or Guru will always ask the seeker of Truth to empty his mind of all such knowledge before crossing the threshold of his monastery or place.

It is reported that Swami Dayanand, founder of the Arya Samaj Society in India, went to meet a spiritual master who was to become his future guide. “Go and throw away all your books in the Ganges, then come to me,” said the master. Without any hesitation, the would-be disciple fulfilled the first command of the master. Such kind of will is rare these days. Many people pretend to know much and some even claim to know everything about yoga, kundalini, pranayam and religion as a whole only through reading.

There is a famous Zen story which goes like this. A university professor went to a great Zen master who lived in a remote place, on a small hill in a nearby village. Having walked quite a long distance, the curious professor arrived at the hut of the sage. At the very first sight, he introduced himself and started putting questions to the master. “Please be seated, rest for a while and have some tea, then we shall have a good chat,” said the master. With hesitation, the impatient professor took a seat while the enlightened being offered him a cup and started filling it with tea. He continued pouring even after the cup was full. “What are you doing?” exclaimed the surprised professor. “Can’t you see that the cup is full and tea is overflowing and has spilled on my clothes?” “Exactly!” said the sage, “I was wondering how to give you wisdom when you are already so full of knowledge!”

 

Everyone’s cup is full so that no one is ready to listen. Yes, there are many who pretend to listen in order to add to their stock of knowledge. It is very difficult to empty the mind of bookish learning accumulated over decades. By emptying, I do not mean that one should forget everything that one has learned. Instead, the mind should be open and ready to learn and to experience only that which will liberate one from all forms of sorrow and make one realise that one’s essential nature is divine and that life is a gift awarded for that particular purpose.

The mind does not mean thought, thought is its instrument. Mind is Pure Consciousness, energy and a state which I call the knowing state. Simply knowing or Pure Consciousness. Man’s original and fundamental nature is that state without which life is not possible. The knowing state is not our property, but it is the infinite and primordial state of the whole existence. Man is only a vessel in which it is reflected. At present, that reflection is in a seed state. The thoughts and impressions in the mind and superficial worldly knowledge prevent its brilliance from overall expansion in all directions.

When will man be liberated from the imposed limitation of the ego and have the courage to proclaim and assert, not to the world but to himself, that his actual condition is that of ignorance? It is only then that the door for real knowledge will open and a ray of light from the knowing state will reach him. That will be the dawn of enlightenment. But it demands courage and determination to revolt against standards imposed by society, parents, pseudo-religions and their leaders. “Pure knowledge liberates,” says Krishna. Of course, not the bookish one, but self-knowledge. Without knowing oneself, every step taken will be wrong because it will be taken in relation with ignorance, darkness or incomplete education. Self-knowledge is like the morning sun which pierces the veil of darkness to shed light on the whole world, to bring life to plants, animals, human beings, and it creates happiness.

It is good to acquire material knowledge since it may render life easier and more comfortable. However, to fill one’s mind merely with such knowledge is foolish and this destroys all possibilities of achieving the greatest blessing of self-knowledge. People should be brave to clear or deprogramme their mind from superficial or material knowledge so that knowingness will shine forth in all its glory. Knowingness is the state of real knowledge. It is not made up of words, but is a stuff. I will not say it is ‘made of’ but is of the nature of pure being or Pure Consciousness. Virtue which springs from the knowing state is spontaneous and thus genuine. All else are, as Osho puts it, carbon copies.

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