Swami Rama / Reserving the Sexual Energies
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Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 29, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
The afternoon session of breath infusion went well. During the practice I felt the presence of Swami Rama on my right. He began to speak as I practiced. His discussion was on the Patanjali verses which read:
avidyā asmitā rāga dveṣa abhiniveśaḥ kleśāḥ
The mental and emotional afflictions are spiritual ignorance, misplaced identity, emotional attachment, impulsive emotional disaffection and a strong focus on mundane existence, which is due to an instinctive fear of death.
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svarasavāhă viduṣaḥ ’pi tatha rūḍho ‘bhiniveśaḥ
As it is, the strong focus on mundane existence, which is due to the instinctive fear of death, which is sustained by its own potencies, and which operates for self-preservation, is developed even in the wise man.
te pratiprasavaheyāḥ sūkṣmāḥ
These subtle motivations are to be abandoned by reverting their expression backwards.
Yoga Sutras: 3.7-9
Yoga Sutras: 3.7-9
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Swami Rama said this:
Each person who takes a physical body has to at some point in the initial formation of that form; submit to the curling action of kundalini. In this curling action, kundalini concentrates certain energies which are required as a starting point for the new body.
Even a great yogin, a siddha, who takes a new material body, is subjected to this. Few persons however can break the choke-hold of kundalini and its temperament which is to create a concentration of energy for maximum sexual enjoyment.
Before puberty there is no carnal knowledge in the body. In fact, if you take a juvenile who has not reached puberty and expose that person to sexual intercourse, there would be no experience of a climax, because at that stage the body does not support sexual pleasure.
However for an adult once there is exposure, we find that it becomes the most forceful impulsion. Because of this forcefulness a student yogi does the practice in a half-hearted way, whereby he or she cannot concentrate fully on the internal plane.
Kundalini is on the alert to procure sexual pleasure. That becomes its main focus after puberty. And thus when the student begins he or she is stymied by the need for sexual pleasure. Kundalini for its own part, stores up the hormones with the intention of using that energy during the expression of sexual affection.
Why should the student yogi go all out, when he or she can just do enough yoga to make-by. Why infuse the sexual energy and then by a thorough infusion scatter it evenly all over the body. You may not get intense pleasure if the energy is scattered, so why do yoga to that proficiency if it will deprive you of the pleasure intensity yielded by reserving the sexual energy for the genitals and their related sensual facilities?
