Saturday, 04 June 2011 18:23

From Porn to Purna

Today, the world is massively obsessed with porn. Because of a feeling of lack in one's heart, a feeling of meaninglessness in one's soul, a feeling of neediness and craving in one's mind, and anxiety in one's body, people turn to pornography for a fix—an instant gratification of the scopic drive, the drive to see an object of desire, to devour it with one's eyes, to fill the lack with a false sense of power and possession.

The urge to view pornography is heightened in a society that offers no higher culture, no more elevated images of beauty, no sublime sense of spiritual majesty and radiance. The lack of more exalted significance to our bodily form as transmitter of divine energies, of beauty as symbolic expression of spirit in action, of nobility of character, of incarnation of transcendent love and wisdom, leaves humans in a state of perilous lostness, in which they seek to make their bodies at least an object of profane desire and enjoyment; or make of others' bodies a feast of egoic delight.
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Monday, 28 March 2011 09:23

The Sat Yoga Philosophy of Sex, Part Two

The Sat Yoga Philosophy of Sex, Part Two:
Heterosexuality is the Real Perversion

Spirituality is the love of God. A spiritual life is a life dedicated to God and to the service of God. When someone who is self-identified as a heterosexual authentically enters a true spiritual path, they do so out of a desire to dedicate their love to the Supreme Being. Sexual desire is sublimated—not repressed—and it is this raising of the kundalini energy, the energy of desire, or libido, as Freud called it, that brings about the siddhis, the higher powers of a yogi, as well as the attainment of bliss. They come to realize that there is no innate sexual or gender identity or orientation. The Self is bodiless. The Self has no gender and no identifications. The Self is beyond desire and beyond fear.
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