Celibacy and spirituality

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I feel that sikhism being a offshoot of the bhakti movement (led by kabir,

namdev, tukaram etc) culminating in the sikh religion always had its proponents

preach that leading a householder's life facing all its battles without running

away is the way. You will see this tone in Kabir's poems. He emphasized leading

a life in the world and being not attached to it. Now this is the very same

ideal which Sri Ramakrishna asked us to live. But his methods of achieving it

were very different and did tally with what we read in the Upanishads.

 

When we talk of sex its just not the loss of semen which is the obstructing

factor. The tremendous nervous impact it has and also the nerve titillations

that it produces make us feel that there when there is so much joy in it, so

whats the case to move on to something higher. This is said so acutely in the

case of devas, their senses are so subtle and given to so much enjoyment that

they simply cannot stop enjoying. That is why Prajapati says self control is for

the devas. I have read that the energy release occuring during the sexual act is

the obstruction and not the physical part of emmission which seems very

appropriate. The energy released is a very concentrated form of energy which

when directed to any endeavor will bring the best results forth. In a way you

could say that we use our best energies to have sex. We can thus appropriately

label the sex energy as the creative energy. This creative energy is the basis

with which we do all our work but the maximum and the best

energy is spent in the creative act. Now when we desire for any higher

development it is this self same creative energy which is given a higher turn.

When we practise celibacy even for a short time , a young youth can easily see

how detached his body is from his lower self. From such detachment from the body

all virtues proceed and indeed detachment from the body is the root of all

dharma.

 

Concessions can be made to people who are not upto the ideal but making the

concession the ideal is most dangerous. The best man/woman is wherein the body

is under the total control of his intellect and his senses are fully in control.

This person is the ideal to strive for. This person is fit for real religion.

Until then rest is practise. As long as a person has the sex idea let him

concede that he is short of the ideal and not drag the ideal to his viewpoint.

 

So as stated above a woman though having no emissions has the tremendous nervous

excitment and release which is the real obstructions. This release/excitment

phenomenon attaches us to the body. Of course once attached to the body all

evils proceed from here.I will quote verse 145 of the vivekachudamani to this

effect.

 

" Of the tree of Samsara ignorance is the seed, the identification with the body

is its sprout, attachment its tender leaves, work its water, the body its trunk,

the vital forces its branches, the organs its twigs, the sense-objects its

flowers, various miseries due to diverse works are its fruits, and the

individual soul is the bird on it. "

 

The identification with the body the main causes for our suffering. How then can

we reconcile a physical relationship (whatever name you give) to be permissible

at the highest level of religion ?

 

The sex problem which is so predominant everywhere now can be curbed by

following and putting forth the ideal of the householders life. To this effect

the founder of some of the faiths were really insightful. They saw that in a

family with love and wherein the husband and wife are chaste towards one another

is indeed the place for virtue to blossom and spread out. The householder by his

upright life and loving committment to his family and society ennobles himself

and the people surrounding him. However this is an intermediate and an almost

compulsory step for most people ( People who are bachelors and sannyasins must

have also passed through this step in some previous life) for a training in

higher life. Once we go through the householder dharma properly we become fit

for higher religion. Higher religion of course demands your everything. Those

who can live upto the challenge of higher religion must do so and those who cant

must enter family life, the fire and duties of which

purify us for higher things.

 

 

 

Jai Ramakrishna

 

Vinay

 

 

 

 

Strength is life, weakness is death.

- Swami Vivekananda

 

 

 

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

Importance of preserving Sex Energy according to a

great ancient Rishi Tirumular who composed

Tirumantiram 3000 years ago.

 

Tirumantiram : verse 1947

 

Conservation of Sex Energy Vital for Yoga Practice

 

Thus conserved, they light the Fire of Kundalini,

And forcing it upward through Nadi Sushumna

Reach the state of illumination;

There they partake of ambrosia (divine nectar)

From the moon within flows;

Those who do this in unbroken continuity,

Are verily Siva Yogins true.

 

Comments: Thus by conserving the sex energy, the yogis

light the fire of kundalini, and coursing it upward

through the sushumna nadi they reach the state of

illumination. Siva yogins are they indeed who

continuously partake of the ambrosia flowing from the

moon in the mystic sphere within.

 

Tirumantiram : Verse 1949

 

Conserve Sex Energy and Become Heroes

 

The Yogi, the Jnani, and the Siddha high

The Bhoga Yogi who is yet the king of Jnanis,

All these, through troubled by passions

Yet savour the ambrosia within; (in a Yogic way)

Heroes, all, they are indeed,

Who the Bindu had conserved.

 

Comments: The yogi, the jnani, and siddhar high and

the bhoga-high, who is yet the king of jnanis, are

real heroes; because, though they were troubled and

tempted by passions, they resolved to taste the

ambrosia within in the yogic way.

 

Tirumantiram : Verse 1953

 

Lust is Death’s Messenger

 

If you hold Sex as Death’s messengers,

Love’s passion vanishes away;

Death there is none;

For ages innumerable will you in Divine Light be,

Your Impurities forever totally rid.