Yogis and Sexual Indulgence

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before Jun 12, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Someone called this afternoon and was discussing the incidence of sexual indulgence as it related to yoga practice.

Well it is like this: There was this seaworthy ship. At least that is what the crewmen and captain considered it to be. Somehow it sprung a leak. The captain and crew began to wonder about their lives. These guys were seasoned sailors but this situation was terrible. It causes them to understand that they were in a precarious position.

The captain for his part was sorry about the whole situation but there was nothing he could do about it, because they were in the middle of ocean, far away from any landing. He gave the order to release the life rafts.

For some days they lay adrift in two life rafts staying close to each other, and feeling that things were not so bad. Even if they never spotted a seaworthy ship by sheer coincidence, they knew that eventually all ocean currents beach their flotsam. So even if it took some days or weeks, those life rafts would be cast to land.

It so happened that this was not to be. Suddenly a vicious storm came up. The waves were so large that the lifeboats flooded and sank. Those crewmen, at least the pessimistic ones felt that they were done. Then one fellow felt a shark pulling at his pants. He began to call for help.

The others looked at him without any pity because they knew that the chances of his and even their own survival was nil.

Everybody should try to understand that in yoga practice, it is every man for himself. This is not a course where one person is going to save others. So in this situation asking for help from other crewmen is really a joke. One sinking sailor cannot assist another. I can look over and see what sort of trouble you are in but that does not mean that I can rescue you or that I am in a better position.

As great a person as Jesus Christ, or so the good book says, was saying that if the Big Man would help him, then he would help others. He said, “If I am lifted, then I will lift others.”

It depended on his empowerment by the Deity he was relying on. Even for him helping others was based on other factors.

I sympathize with any elderly person who is doing serious yoga and meditation and who is still carrying obligations for sexual indulgence. But it is not that I can do anything else to help anyone. Just getting myself out of it took severe exertion. The way this material nature is slanted, most students who are trying to clean up their social sexual acts are doomed to fail at it. This does not mean they should stop endeavoring. In fact that is all the more reason why they should never give up. They should be like the historic King Leonidas of Sparta who with a small contingent of warriors fought to his death, even he knew that there was no way he could survive the battle.

There comes a point in a student yogi’s life when he or she has to make that decision to fight to the bitter end, even if it is obvious that one will not overcome the passionate energy. It is a good lesson too about being arrogant. Thinking that one can overcome this cosmic passion and lust, is really a case of severe intoxication. As soon as one sobers up, one will realize that one is just a straw in the cosmic passionate energies. Then one will do as all good yogis do and that is to hide from those energies. When the big predators roam, the small animals who are wise, hide themselves away.