Spirituality & Sex - III

How stupid it would be to think about the “after life,” which is uncertain and unknown and give-up the present life, at hand, following some stupid priests? It has nothing to do with your right or wrong, it is natural and the necessity of the body and soul, for every being. Nature wholeheartedly designs the human body for the propagation of the species.

In fact one can see the eternity during the climax or when one orgasms. I am sure everyone is going to forget all the anxieties, problems and stress during it. It is scientifically proven that having an orgasm relieves you of your stress and also acts as an antidote for few cardiovascular diseases; it’s also a kind of exercise. Note that the temples are places built to encourage and have sexual intercourse in the ancient India; even the Siva Linga signifies the male genital organ.

The Siddhartha of Lumbini embraced celibacy after he fathered a son, and going through all the relationships, marital bliss. He couldn’t find solace in all of them and gave them up and gave in to celibacy. The circumstances that had guided him in embracing celibacy, the reasons that made him follow a certain set of principles is more important, which may or may not exist now. So, it’s not true that each and every individual could find solace and peace by following the same principles. Don’t be pathological, he might not know the ways to enjoy and find solace except celibacy or he might have become Cypridophobic, fear of sexual intercourse. Celibacy is not a virtue for all.

Life is multidimensional. One should accept to enjoy, celebrate and rejoice in it. Celebration is the highest growth of consciousness, expression and manifestation. Some of the ancestors might not have found any enjoyment in sex and started practicing celibacy. It’s just might be the case of Siddhartha or Gowtham Budda or even Mahatma Gandhi, who practiced Brahmacharya. Gandhi even made experiments to test his celibacy, restraints etc., by sleeping naked with wives of his close followers, and even with his grand nieces.

So, don’t take it for granted, that celibacy is the way Hinduism is built. The success - howsoever temporary - of the fake swamis exposes the alarming levels of ignorance in society. Just start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting your own being, no politician, no priest can exploit you. I prefer trusting something that has shown proof in the past rather than some random faith that promises to give me something after my body parts stop functioning.

Leonardo da Vinci puts all this from the artist’s perspective: “The art of procreation and the members employed therein is so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, Nature would lose the human species.”

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Spirituality & Sex - II

Spirituality is not the state or quality of being dedicated to God, and not an integral aspect of a religion. It emphasizes complete inner freedom and responsibility of the individual to himself, demanding no superficial behavioral changes, but a deeper, inner transformation. Desires were to be transcended, accepted and surpassed rather than denied. An individual with spiritual outlook is one who is more personalized, less structured, more open to new ideas and more pluralistic than that of the doctrinal faiths of organized religions.

Forced celibacy was not just wrong, it was damaging to the soul of man. It was against man's natural instincts and his essential nature, independent of any religion. In fact a religion should be an art that should show us the way to enjoy life, but the orthodox religions are dead, filled with rituals, oppressing the followers with fears of damnation and the promise of blessings.

Remember that you are not granted life and are not answerable to anyone after your death. One should not be a victim of fear psychosis as is done in all religions, to worship God or fear God to avoid hell, gratify God by practicing rituals, and lead a life that is laid out in some book to go to heaven- to avoid hell. In this way, they had denied and destroyed life. In the name of religion, man was exploited. They made man afraid, made man feel unworthy, made man feel guilty, made man feel that he is just on the verge of hell. All this was done to make you to do what they wanted to and make yourself believe in life after death.

How to make man so afraid? The only way is: condemn life, condemn whatsoever is natural. Condemn sexual intercourse because it is the fundamental of life; condemn food because that is the second fundamental of life; condemn relationship, family, friendship, because that is the third fundamental of life -- and go on condemning. Whatsoever is natural to man, condemn it, say it is wrong: "If you do it you will suffer for it. If you don't do it you will be rewarded. Hell is going to descend on you if you go on living naturally" -- that is the message of the whole past -- "and heaven will be given to you if you go against life." Everyone was fooled by saying that life was ugly and sowed ideas of life after death, by teaching them celibacy and all. On the path of salvation, celibacy is not a prerequisite but a consequence – an effortless by-product. Celibacy is a kind of birth of consciousness and not a moral given, as most sermons would have us believe.

Thus, if you give your life, if you are suicidal, only then God will accept you. If you slowly commit suicide in the senses, in the body, in the mind, in the heart, and you go on destroying yourself, and the more you succeed in destroying yourself, the more you will become beloved to God. One shouldn't drop the idea of sexuality because it is told be a hindrance for entering heaven.

More on these lines in the next post
with some ideas of Osho Rajneesh...