Sex at Seventy

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before May 07, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

I was in a conversation last night in the astral world concerning a question one person asked which this was:

How does one know when to stop sexual intercourse? Should one continue with it until the day one dies? Is there a limiting age for this? Suppose the other parent wants to continue it or needs it, what should one do? Suppose one is over 70? Suppose one is 90? Should one get medical treatment to deal with being sexually dysfunctional?

If we are discussing yoga practice, or meditation practice by the system of Patanjali then sexual behavior pass about 50 years of age is out of the question. Patanjali listed Vedic style brahmachari lifestyle as the system required for yogis.

So if we are not speaking about that system, then we have to either make up rules of conduct or consult the authority who introduced the system we are currently following.

In the Western societies, we are not so much concerned with any authority, especially somebody like Patanjali whom we cannot rely on since some people say that we don’t know if he even wrote the Yoga Sutras and that even if he did how do we know what he intended.

Thus for us it is a matter of compared value. If I continue sexual intercourse beyond 50 years of age, until my body dies, with or without the aid of sexual dysfunctional drugs then it is okay if doing that does not directly or indirect retard my spiritual practice.

If it decelerates my practice, even then I may not have the power over my life, whereby I can stop the indulgence.

If one is practicing kundalini yoga and if the objective is to keep kundalini in a charged upward state, then sexual intercourse will be counterproductive to that since it will release the energy of kundalini through the sexual apparatus. This will result in a drop in intensity of kundalini’s upward thrust into the head.