By Hari Warrier
Let’s talk about sex.
Sex is connected with love. Obviously.The sex chakra is directly connected with the heart chakra, and when the heart chakra expands, some energy travels to sex, and that chakra too gets activated.
But that is not the only way in which the sex chakra gets activated. Or the heart chakra, for that matter. A person engaged in doing charity, good work, may find that suddenly, their sex chakra is screaming for attention. Or, someone who has just risen from meditation finds an urgent need for sex (for some people, the urgent need is for food…) Or, even more maddeningly/confusingly, such people find that they have, unwittingly, caused arousal in others.
It is important to understand the sex energy, rather than blush furiously and look away when confronted by it. The sex energy has the capacity to cause floods and shake the earth, according to the classical definition of the Deva of the chakra, Varuna (in the Indian culture) or Neptune (Roman) and Poseidon (Greek).
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Sex is the chakra of procreation, and as such is connected to the plane of Creation, of the 3rd Logos (Brahma, in the Indian tradition) directly. In the current earth cycle, the energies of the 3rd Logos and the 2nd Logos are supposed to be fused and working together. On the level of the Solar Logos, this is true, but on the human level this is yet to manifest.
What this means is that sex energy is supposed to be used to manifest the creative will of the Solar Logos (which in turn is manifesting the will of the Supreme God, which we know as the Divine Plan).
However we are not aware of this, and we use our sex energy for a little bit of fun, or allow the energy itself to dictate the means and direction in which it will be used.
The Deva of the sex energy is powerful, second only to Zeus in the Greek tradition and Indra in the Indian tradition), and his energy, just like the Kundalini, cannot be “directed” or controlled once it is awakened. Hence, the path for its travel needs to be clearly created BEFORE it is awakened or activated; the channel needs to be cleared of silt and weeds before the dam is opened and water is let out.
Otherwise, it will simply fuel the strongest desires of the person concerned — emotions and desires also being essentially fluid in nature and symbolised by water — and the water rises above the head, meaning the ajna is no longer in control. In the Greek tradition, Zeus and Poseidon are shown as mostly at odds with each other.
Zeus, Indra and the ajna all represent the will of the higher soul…
CONDITIONS APPLY
Centuries of conditioning means that humanity no longer associates sex with survival of the species. It is instead associated with the individual — or, in tribal terms, perpetuating one’s own tribe, ethnicity etc. Sadly — but naturally — this same sentiment also leads to sex being wielded as a weapon.
Since sex has the capacity to fuel desire, it can also stoke revenge, sadism, pride, mistaken nationalism, vendetta, cupidity or greed… any emotion. And having done the deed, the person/s then blame the victim for provoking his or her own misbehaviour. Sometimes, rarely, the attacker is emotionally shattered and does violence against themselves.
All of this and much more happens essentially because we have a very hazy idea about the PURPOSE of sex (as, in fact, is the case with our idea about the purpose of life in general).
Life is not just about making a lot of money, swigging beer, having a good time and then just dying [NOTE: desires]. It is not even about being a nice person, raising a family, retiring and gently fading into the sunset.
Life has a real purpose: aligning one’s desires to the will of the higher soul, and living the life that the soul wants us to. In effect, this means sacrificing our (material) desires at the altar of the soul [NOTE: real significance of the word ‘sacrifice’].
Taking this, for the moment, broadly as true, it means that sex, and sex energy, have a purpose, and that is NOT pleasure or desire (or revenge etc). In fact, we must be honest and acknowledge that what we call love is also just a desire for each other, if not physically, emotionally; it is a desire for each other’s company and the emotion that it generates in us, and (subconsciously) the energy and the chemicals that this company and the emotions generate within us (NOTE: hence the phrase: chemistry between two people].
So long as the desires keep directing us outwards, they are leading us away from ourselves, preventing us finding ourselves, our real Selves.
THE SACREDNESS OF SEX
So what is the real purpose of sex energy?
It is directly connected to higher creativity, to Brahma or the 3rd Logos. The second Logos or the Vishnu aspect is supposed to be fused with the 3rd Logos. “Let the plan of love and light work out” as it is put in the Great Invocation.
If the sex energy is unplugged from desire, and if it is governed by love [NOTE: higher love, from the heart; not personal love from the solar plexus] then the sex energy gets a chance to rise in a natural way to the heart centre, rather than to the head. In the Greek tradition, for instance, this is symbolised by Aphrodite, the goddess of love, rising from the foams of the Ocean. The same is the case of the Roman version: Venus rising from the ocean waters on a seashell is immortalised by the artist Botticelli.
Botticelli's Venus
In the Indian tradition, Lakshmi, the goddess of love and wellbeing, rises from the ocean during the churning for the Amrit or divine nectar. She is immediately married to Lord Vishnu, the Second Logos (imagine, the momentous event of the churning of the ocean is paused for this wedding! and resumed after the event; Lakshmi and Vishnu live in the heart centre).
From the activated heart, the energy is able to rise to the blue pearl and the crown, which facilitate the raising of the kundalini as well.
Note that in the process of raising the Kundalini, the energy gets stuck at the first obstacle that it encounters, which is usually the sex chakra — because most of us have highly colourful ideas of sex and no control at all over the energy.
Note, also, that if sex is NOT unplugged from desire, it is strong enough to dominate the heart, working with the energy of the solar plexus, flooding the ajna and leading to a “shipwreck”, in a manner of speaking, in which the person acts without rhyme or reason.
If the sex energy dos rise properly to the heart, a portion of it goes to the throat, manifesting as creativity and concrete intelligence. In the Indian tradition, Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom and the arts, is shown seated on a lotus, flanked by a swan and a peacock.
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The peacock indicates flying in the inner world through the peacock-coloured blue pearl, while the swan, mythically speaking, has the capacity to “separate milk from water”. This is also one of the qualities of the Arhat, called “parama hansa” or ultimate swan in the Indian spiritual tradition: the milk symbolises mental energy, and water, emotional energy.
[NOTE: When the solar plexus is highly activated, it produces hundreds of thought forms, which contain both mental and emotional energies. The technique of separating milk from water represents discernment or the ability to filter out emotion from a thought form.]
The seat of Saraswati is shown as located on a stream (there is a mythical subterranean river named Saraswati), and not the ocean — only some of the sex energy rises to the throat, not all of it.
Note that if, as is often the case with artists, the sex chakra is highly activated without the accompanying checks and balances of a highly activated heart chakra and a strong foundation in the virtues, the sex drive can overpower the energy of the throat in the same way as it does the heart, and can cause the person to become a slave to his or her desires, leading to a fall — and not just spiritually, but even materially [NOTE: the devi Saraswati is portrayed as a celibate].
For the spiritual person, thus, the sex chakra has to be conserved. If it is not, if it is spent without discrimination, then there is no more energy to rise to the heart, throat and the crown.
In the spiritual scheme of things, it is advisable for a couple to have sex without releasing, and the man should ideally release only during the safe period of the woman. During the remaining days, they must cultivate the energy, nurture it with the aim of raising it to the appropriate chakras. Without the help of the woman, the man cannot do this (it is not in his nature to refrain from release, and beyond a point, it is even beyond his capacity).
It is not a simple matter of being wilful, it is an entire science in which the woman plays the primary role because the female form is built with the natural capacity to raise the kundalini and the sex energy. This is the science of Tantra, which socially has been painted as a dark art.
This perhaps is the fundamental reason behind male chauvinism towards the female body: jealousy and insecurity. However, the soul has no gender, and experiences both genders over and over again lifetime after lifetime.
To sum up, sex energy is a spiritual resource, but it must be nurtured with love and raised to the crown without the involvement of the will. It must not get a chance to run riot in the aura, and it must be respected. Sex is sacred, and both words come from the root sacrum.
A healthy, proper attitude towards sex is crucial, and an appreciation of the energy behind sex is of paramount importance. So it is critical to purify the mind and the emotional body of ancient pent up energies of improper attitude towards sex, past sexual crime, violence, vengeance, hurt and pain — all of which are lodged in various parts of the body and the aura. The sex organs, the urinary system and the two solar plexus chakras are particularly vulnerable, as is the spleen.
If we “fall in love”, it means the lower nature has triumphed. That love is self-centred. Desire rules.
