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The Incarnate Divine
Person, Adi Da, (The Da Avatar)
Sex is a heart-matter. The heart is
the basis, the foundation, the seat, of your sexuality. This
is what you must discover, and the sooner you discover it
the better for you. The genitals are not the platform of
sex. They are only the means of sex. The heart is the
platform of sex. When you are sane, this is simply true.
Sane sexuality is love expressed. If you energize yourself
sexually over and over gain, you lose your heart. You become
fleshy, cold, opaque, unnatural, diseased, mad. People who
are addicted to sexuality in itself are mad. Like alcohol or
drugs, sex is a loveless automaticity that destroys people's
lives. Sex is just as destructive as alcohol and drugs. And
perhaps it is even a more common addiction . . . Feeding creates a pleasurable
sensation in the body that the baby identifies and makes it
feel comfortable, sustained, protected. The adult gets a
similar satisfaction from sexuality. Sexual intercourse is a
way of feeding on energy. It is a pleasurable sensation that
you can identify. It makes you feel good, because it is a
contact with life-energy. But, just as nursing makes the
baby feel dependent for life-energy on what is outside it,
so sexuality makes you feel that you have a very dependent
relationship to the energy of existence. This feeling of
dependence, however, is false. In truth, you yourself are a
representative of the universal life-energy, which you
communicate through your feeling response in your relations,
through love, not only through orgasm and occasions of
physical contact. Therefore, if your life is to be true, the
energy that you now identify exclusively with sex must be
your consistent manifestation, under all conditions, in all
of your relations, most particularly in the intimate sexual
dimension of your life. But being able to have orgasms and
being sexually attractive and athletic does not make you a
true lover. Even your relatively successful adaptation to
the orgasm must change, because, like feeding, it is a way
of being consoled and dependent. My Wisdom-Teaching relative to
sexuality is that you must go beyond the dependent
orientation that seeks to acquire pleasure. You must realize
the inherent pleasurableness of existence by connecting to
the greater levels of the Food Source, the greater levels of
sustenance, or Spiritual Energy. Thus, you must see your
capability to be released pleasurably through orgasm for
what it is - at best a rudimentary way of feeling good, of
acquiring pleasure. You must already be full of
pleasure. You must be love. If you live as love, then the
purpose once served by the conventional orgasm appears to
your understanding as an old adaptation, a form of memory
like the aberrated emotions of guilt, fear, and anger. The
conventional orgasm is exactly the same kind of aberrated
development as guilt or fear or anger. It is the expression
of a primarily physical reaction, a physical recoil rather
than an emotional one. It is a sign on the physical level of
the same recoil that guilt and fear and anxiety and
withdrawal from life signify at the emotional
level. People learn orgasm. Orgasm is a
form of adaptation that people learn at an early stage of
life, even earlier than they become genitally active. People
learn orgasm in being sustained, in nursing. They learn it
in the pleasurable bodily states that they may realize early
in life, and they associate those acquired pleasurable
states with a continual connection to life-energy. When you
discover your capability for orgasm, you identify it at the
most rudimentary level, just as you identify the pleasure of
nursing as an infant. It is a solution to the dilemma of
life, to the sense of emptiness, of needing to be fed, of
feeling that you are not inherently one with infinite
pleasure, or Love-Bliss. Emotion and sexuality are the same.
If you are adapted only to reactive, negative emotions, then
your sexuality will take a very similar form. Thus,
lovelessness and the rejection of life-energy at the level
of emotion are reflected as conventional orgasm and the
rejection of life-energy at the level of sex. The
conventional orgasm is precisely the rejection, or
discharge, of life-energy. In later years, people become
ritually addicted to this pleasure, this physical emotion of
the orgasm. They constantly hope to acquire it again and
again, and their lives become very complex so that they can
acquire that pleasure. Unless one privately masturbates,
one generally depends on sexual intimacy with another
individual for orgasm. But, in general, the life you spend
with people with whom you have orgasms is like conventional
orgasm itself. It is loveless, a recoil from relationship.
It is a theatre of jealousy, anger, fear, mediocrity,
subhuman energy, and mutual stimulation to the point of
acquiring conventional orgasms. It is a life of conflict, a
life lived at a very low level. The fundamental function of
emotional-sexual intimacy for most people is to satisfy this
drive toward orgasm. But one cannot have the life of
conventional orgasm without the life of negative emotions,
because they represent the same negative adaptation. Thus,
you must not only become responsible for your negative
emotions and be present as feeling-attention, in all
relations and under all conditions. You must also become
responsible sexually, because emotion and sexuality
represent the same level of adaptation and responsibly.
Sexuality is the physical drama of the emotional dimension
of life. Many people who are presently
sexually active have been sexually active since very early
in their lives. Even if you have not, your early emotional
adaptation to the conditions of life determined your sexual
pattern in the future. Thus, even if there were no overt
sexual incidents in your early life, you childhood, your
early teens, before you became regularly active sexually,
there were emotional incidents that created a double-bind,
an emotional dilemma of pleasure versus fear and guilt. This
feeling obstruction then appeared with you became sexually
active. Emotion and sexuality are exactly
the same thing. There is absolutely no difference between
them. Whatever you are emotionally, you are sexually.
Whatever you are sexually, you are emotionally. And whatever
you are emotionally and sexually, that is what you are as a
living presence. That is your relationship to the
life-force, upon which further growth depends. If you are
obstructed emotionally and obstructed sexually, you are also
obstructed in the energy of the living being. You are
obstructed in the psyche, in the feeling dimension, and thus
you are prevented from realizing the fourth stage of life
and adapting to the functional levels of the bodily being
above the navel. You may have occasional contact with the
depth that is the feeling heart, but you will not be full
and mature at the level of the heart. Your whole life will
essentially be spent below it. So it is that, in becoming a loving
presence in the world, you must not only cease to dramatize
all the contractions of emotion - you must also transcend
the conventional orgasm. Such orgasm, the conventional
"hype" of sexuality, is loss of life-energy, the discharge
of life-energy. It is the degenerative form of living and of
sexual intimacy. It is the craving for sustenance, because
you have adapted to the loss of life-energy. There is a
certain momentary pleasure associated with conventional
orgasm, but its effects are psychologically and emotionally
degenerative. It constantly reinforces negative emotional
states, not the life of love. Conventional orgasm is also
physically degenerative. When there is conventional orgasm,
the body also eliminates certain glandular chemistries, with
the discharge of the life-force, that are absolutely
essential to its own regeneration and growth. Likewise,
conventional orgasm reinforces the fixation of attention on
the lower body. As long as the fixation of attention is
reinforced pleasurably and with some consistency in the
lower body, attention will not rise to the higher functional
dimensions of the body. Thus, the conventional orgasm
represents the loveless orientation to life-energy whereby
that energy is lost and attention is trapped in negative
emotion and in the most descended, of fleshy, capability for
experience. It is not the pleasure associated
with sexual intimacy that is wrong. Sexual pleasure is not
in principle wrong. However, the usual person's use of it,
the usual person's relationship to it, is degenerative and
an expression of a negative emotional adaptation. Pleasure
is associated with the loss of life-energy. In your casual
adaptation, pleasure and death, sex and death, eroticism and
death, have always been felt to be the same event. You must,
in your right emotional and sexual adaptation, discover the
pleasure that is inherent in life. You must realize a
regenerative form of the whole process of life, including
your sexuality. You must find the way of enjoying sexual
intimacy whereby life-energy is not lost, you do not
discharge life-energy in order to achieve pleasure, and you
love another, completely Happy and free in your life
together. In present-day societies there are
essentially two approaches to orgasm. Many traditional
Spiritual societies, the remnants of which appear in the
Orient, regard orgasm as sinful and ignorant because it is
loss of life-energy. It signifies the confinement of
attention to the lower life, whereas in this traditional
view attention properly belongs to the ascended life,
purposed to the Realization of God, Truth, and Reality.
Thus, in these traditional Eastern societies, one is to be
loving in intimate relations, but sexually properly has only
a generative purpose and no other. The alternative point of view, which
is represented by Western society, acknowledges that one
should be intimate and a loving and caring person, and also
maintains that orgasms are good. In fact, you should have as
many of them as you like, casually and pleasurably and
athletically, with as many people as you can care for, or
who can care for you - you are all familiar with all that
psychiatric nonsense. But apart from either of these
limited points of view, there is a regenerative form of the
sexual process, one that permits people to be intimate with
one another and also to be sexually active not merely on
occasions when they want to produce children. The obligation
of such people is a fully human one. They must be
responsible for their lower life through love, through
intention. They must not casually indulge themselves
sexually with one another but embrace only on occasions of
mutual love-desire. Their sexuality is not aberrated by
inwardness, egoic "self-possession", imagery, or loveless
physical contact. On the contrary, they are obliged, through
esoteric instruction, to the conversion of the orgasm
itself, so that in moments of the crisis of pleasure that
naturally appears in sexual play, the life-energy is not
thrown off, not merely used to create explosive sensations
in the lower physical body. Life-energy is consciously
conserved and released into the whole body from its fixation
in the genitals, and in participation with the Living Divine
Spirit-Presence. If individuals who become capable of
love through application to My Wisdom-Teaching and devotion
to Me (Note to Reader: in the language of Adi Da, that of
the guru-disciple tradition, "Me" actually means "God") will
also adapt to this regenerative form of sexual practice,
they may very well, since orgasm will have ceased to be the
justification for sexuality, come relatively soon to a stage
wherein the occasions of actual genital intimacy are less
frequent but more profound than was previously the case.
They will realize, in their continued growth, the essential
pleasurableness of existence that transcends the
conventional sexual motive. Even though sexual contact may
continue throughout the entire lifetime of such devotees in
the Way of the heart, they realize a greater adaptation, a
greater pleasurableness, a greater ecstasy, wherein they no
longer require degenerative release in order to feel
emotional and physical pleasure.
The
Heart's Shout
Perfect
and Urgent Wisdom From The Living Heart of Reality,
"The
perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is
absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura
Rahasya,
Chap
XX, 128-133
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