Tere are two basic instincts in human beings, one is food, and the other is sex.
Tese have
been with you in all your lifetimes, when you were an animal and now as a human being.
You are born out of these two food and sex.
It is so beautiful that in this country (India) they connected both of these with the Divinity.
Food is connected with God. In the Upanishads, it is said Food is God. When you consider
food as God you will not over eat. You dont simply stuf food, but you eat food with so
much honor.
No festival in India goes without food. And when you go to temple the frst thing they give
is some Prasad. Prasad is just a little bit of food that is given. Without Prasad there is no
pilgrimage and no festival. Food is connected with God.
Similarly, sex is also connected with God. Otherwise you keep sex separate and think this
is my material life and think of God as diferent. But here in India, the ancient people, they
linked sex to God so that no aspect in you remains away from God. A basic instinct doesnt
remain away from God.
So when you honor sex and consider it as part of the Divinity, then your obsession
disappears, lust disappears and sacredness dawns. And the basic instinct, from being an
aggressive lust, gets transformed into a submissive love.
Tis is the ancient thought. But some people are misusing yoga for their enjoyment of
the carnal instincts, this is wrong. Tis is a blunder. It should be the other way around.
Whenever there is a carnal instinct transform that into a Divine inner experience.
Tere is a beautiful word in Sanskrit called Atma Rati, union with ones being, oneself;
rejoicing in ones own self.
Tere are two things, Prakriti (nature) and Purusha (consciousness). Nature and
consciousness inter play all the time. Your body and soul - your body is female and your
soul is male. So their coupling is happening all the time, and seeing that union within
oneself is Samadhi.
Tere are two basic instincts in human
beings and these have been with you in
all your lifetimes
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Tat is why Samadhi is considered to be a thousand times more joyful than the carnal
instincts. Whatever joy sex gives, Samadhi is thousand times more joyful because there
is no efort, and there is no action there. It is only Being and just Being. So just the Being
consciousness, the play and display of consciousness comes to ones awareness, comes to
ones experience. Tis is very beautiful.
Dont keep any corner of your existence away from Divinity. Te Divine should be
interwoven into every aspect of your life and this is called Brahmacharya, which means
moving with the infnity, uniting with the infnity.
Isnt that so beautiful?! It is very deep and very high knowledge. If you dont get it in one
time, never mind, keep listening and keep understanding and one day you will say, Ah!
Tat is what Guruji was talking about.
So here (in India) when you go to any temple anywhere you fnd both aspects Shiva and
Parvathi which symbolize Prakrati and Purusha, consciousness and matter. Tis is to frst
recognize the duality and then see the unity. Tey are not two, they are not diferent but
they are two sides of the same coin. You are complete.
What does this mean? You are both man and woman. Coming out of this label, I am man,
I am woman - Getting out of your identity, this is Vedanta; the highest philosophy of the
universe.
We keep identifying ourselves, I am a man, I am a woman, I am old, I am young, I am
educated, I am illiterate. Trow away all these labels. What remains is pure consciousness.
Do not even say, I am consciousness. Just know that you are consciousness and not even
say it. Dont go around saying I am nothing.
Adi Shankar once said, One who labels themselves as something is a fool and one who
labels themselves as nothing is a bigger fool. One who is nothing does not talk, so just keep
quiet. How can you say, I am nothing, when you are saying something?! Tere cannot be
somebody there saying, I am nothing. So keep quiet.
So when you consider the basic instincts of food and sex as sacred then aggression in you
disappears and surrender dawns in you. Gratefulness and love dawn in you.
Tat is when it is said the devotee and the Divine have become One. Tey have merged
into One!
It is so fascinating, isnt it?!
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