Spiritual ecstasy is far more pleasurable than what you feel in the physical
body, says yoga and kundalini expert, Gopi Krishna With scientific investigation
many facts will come to light about how sexual behaviour has to be regulated. As
a general formula, you have to see how much time must elapse afterwards before
you are able to indulge again without a feeling of regret, strain, or guilt.
That will give you the time span quite correctly. It is the sex energy that
creates the spirit, the creativity in us.
Perhaps you know that when animals are castrated, like a horse or a bull, they become very docile and weak. Their spirit is lost. Excess of sexual indulgence is also a self-castration. The vim, zeal and zest for life is lost. The individual functions as a normal being. He attends to his office and does everything. But he is not able to do what he could do if he were to use this energy sparingly. He loses the chance. It is a disservice to humankind to suggest that people should indulge in sexual activity unrestrainedly.
A rat was put in a cage and an electrode was attached to the pleasure centre in his brain. When the current was on, the pleasure centre was excited. And when it was off, it was disconnected. The rats were taught how to move the lever that gave the pleasure sensation. They went round and round, always touching the lever that gave them the pleasure sensation. They went on doing it until they were exhausted and fell down unconscious. Once they were revived and put into the cage again, they did the same thing; they went round and round.
Should we do the same? Should we bargain our future, our life hereafter, for this sensation, which often leaves us disgusted and weak afterwards? Wait for a longer period and you will find that you have greater pleasure. You will have more love for your partner. The Upanishads were the first to declare that consciousness is the real basis of the universe. Among those who gave the first teachings to mankind, not one was a celibate. We are not called upon to repress this urge. But we are certainly bound to moderate it if we want to live happy, creative lives; if we want to maintain the spirit in us in a bloom; if we want to make the best use of our brain and our energy; and if we want to give the right heritage to our progeny.
Experience the rapture Imagine a couple that loves each other intensely, almost to death, who are separated by some circumstances, then come together again after some years. Imagine the intensity of the pleasure and the love when they embrace. Multiply it a hundred times and you can have a little foretaste of the rapture which fills the brain when you are one with Cosmic Consciousness. This has been considered to be the greatest happiness possible to man. It is for this reason that it is known as satchitananda.
Ananda means extreme bliss. Sat means truth, and chit means consciousness. This union of the human soul - it is not union, because soul is already the infinite - is only the breaking through of the veil of maya, which obstructs its vision. And when this liberation occurs, it becomes satchitananda. The Upanishads compare it like this: If the pleasure of love were one unit and the pleasure of reaching Heaven were a hundred such units, then thousands of such units would make up the ecstasy of Brahmajnana - the knowledge of Brahmn.
This is also known by the terms ecstasy, rapture and ravishment. It is so intense that the mystics faint. It is not possible for the human mind to bear such happiness, when once he is face-to-face with the creatrix of the universe; when one knows one's own majesty; when one knows that he and the beloved object, the universe, are one. It is attended by such intense rapture that all the rapture of this earth is but a faint reflection. In fact, when you experience this rapture of love you are experiencing but a glimpse of your own self, still veiled.
Perhaps you know that when animals are castrated, like a horse or a bull, they become very docile and weak. Their spirit is lost. Excess of sexual indulgence is also a self-castration. The vim, zeal and zest for life is lost. The individual functions as a normal being. He attends to his office and does everything. But he is not able to do what he could do if he were to use this energy sparingly. He loses the chance. It is a disservice to humankind to suggest that people should indulge in sexual activity unrestrainedly.
A rat was put in a cage and an electrode was attached to the pleasure centre in his brain. When the current was on, the pleasure centre was excited. And when it was off, it was disconnected. The rats were taught how to move the lever that gave the pleasure sensation. They went round and round, always touching the lever that gave them the pleasure sensation. They went on doing it until they were exhausted and fell down unconscious. Once they were revived and put into the cage again, they did the same thing; they went round and round.
Should we do the same? Should we bargain our future, our life hereafter, for this sensation, which often leaves us disgusted and weak afterwards? Wait for a longer period and you will find that you have greater pleasure. You will have more love for your partner. The Upanishads were the first to declare that consciousness is the real basis of the universe. Among those who gave the first teachings to mankind, not one was a celibate. We are not called upon to repress this urge. But we are certainly bound to moderate it if we want to live happy, creative lives; if we want to maintain the spirit in us in a bloom; if we want to make the best use of our brain and our energy; and if we want to give the right heritage to our progeny.
Experience the rapture Imagine a couple that loves each other intensely, almost to death, who are separated by some circumstances, then come together again after some years. Imagine the intensity of the pleasure and the love when they embrace. Multiply it a hundred times and you can have a little foretaste of the rapture which fills the brain when you are one with Cosmic Consciousness. This has been considered to be the greatest happiness possible to man. It is for this reason that it is known as satchitananda.
Ananda means extreme bliss. Sat means truth, and chit means consciousness. This union of the human soul - it is not union, because soul is already the infinite - is only the breaking through of the veil of maya, which obstructs its vision. And when this liberation occurs, it becomes satchitananda. The Upanishads compare it like this: If the pleasure of love were one unit and the pleasure of reaching Heaven were a hundred such units, then thousands of such units would make up the ecstasy of Brahmajnana - the knowledge of Brahmn.
This is also known by the terms ecstasy, rapture and ravishment. It is so intense that the mystics faint. It is not possible for the human mind to bear such happiness, when once he is face-to-face with the creatrix of the universe; when one knows one's own majesty; when one knows that he and the beloved object, the universe, are one. It is attended by such intense rapture that all the rapture of this earth is but a faint reflection. In fact, when you experience this rapture of love you are experiencing but a glimpse of your own self, still veiled.
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