Sex and love between two souls

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dattaswami
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Sex and love between two souls

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Sex or kāma is one of the four great goals of human life known as the puruṣārthas. The first puruṣārtha is dharma, which means following justice. The second is artha or earning money for one’s livelihood. The third is kāma or sex for producing legitimate issues. The fourth is mokṣa or freedom from worldly stress by attachment to God. The aim of sex between a man and a woman is the continued existence of the human race. Without it, all the activities done by human beings in the world would be over in a single generation! This world with its dynamic human activities has been created for the entertainment of God as said in the Veda (Ekākī na ramate). Preventing future generations from being born, by withdrawing from sex, is an anti-divine activity since it would stop the divine entertainment.

Producing issues is, therefore, considered to be service to God. That is why we even find sex depicted on the walls of several ancient temples. There is no vulgarity or sin in sex as long as the sex is legitimate and hence, the Veda encourages the generation of issues (prajā tantum...). Legitimate sex for the generation of issues is praised by God to be as holy as Himself (Dharmāviruddhaḥ...—Gita). The unholiness and vulgarity in sex come only when it is illegitimate.

The subject for this discussion is this holy legitimate sex for the sake of the continuation of the human race. It is the sacred subject of serving God by providing Him entertainment by continuing this world-drama.

The Veda shows the two ways. One is Pravrutti and the other is Nivrutti. In Pravrutti, the Veda advises the soul to marry for reproduction (prajatantum…), which is divine mission only. In Nivrutti, the Veda asks the soul to do the work of God without marriage (yadahareva virajet…) because the soul is not interested in any other thing except God. Ofcourse, marriage and reproduction of the souls coming from the upper world and training them with good devotion to God is also divine work. The momentary selfish happiness present in sex is not considered, because it does not persist afterwards.

Thus it is participation of two souls like two colleagues in a job. The third soul takes a body out of it and appears here with its own line of destiny. The third soul is like a new trainee employee for the divine mission. Even the Lord needs parents to come in human form to uplift the humanity. If the divine purpose of reproduction is absent, God would have not created the sex and love between two souls. Without realising this divine mission, the three employees forget the job and the employer and develops liking to each other, which intensifies into blind foolishness called as ‘Moha’.

In Jaimini Bharatam, there is a story that tells that in his kingdom, people think Lord even during their copulation in the nights. This means that they are remembering the purpose of the sex in the service of God. If this divine goal is realised, one need not feel shy and hide sex feeling as if it is a sin. This divine purpose is reminded by the sculpture that shows the union of couple on the walls of the sacred temples. The present westerners and ancient Indians do not feel shy about the sex and are frank without hiding the feelings regarding it. One need not magnify it and keep it as secret like divine knowledge (Brahma Jnanam). When you are doing some work in the job, you forget it and go home peacefully. Shankara had to indulge in sex to defeat the wife of Mandana Misra in the knowledge of Kama Shastra. He forgot it and never carried on the feelings about it, because His mind was not on it. He replied to Goddess Saraswati the same and told that He was pure while climbing the throne of ‘Sarvajna Peetha’. When some devotees asked Me about the sex affair of a great saint, I asked them ‘why don’t you see the great works done by him?

Are these silly things need any mention, which are just the biological functions? Why do you magnify them, which are not worth of even thinking? When you see a picture do you see the excretion of hero in the lavatory? Why such scenes are not shot? Only the great works done by the hero are mentioned on the screen. A Nobel prize is not given to a person who controlled sex, which is also not denied to a great person because he could not control sex’.
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