Desire for sexual pleasure is the root of pain
by Atman Nityananda / blog
Desire for sex pleasure is the origin of identification with the body, loosing of God consciousness, development of egoic tendencies and all kind of suffering.
Follows quotes of Great Enlightened beings:
Adam and Eve, symbolic of the first human beings specially created by God, were fully conscious of their divinity until through the temptation of Nature they indulged in sex creation, causing their godly consciousness to descend from the higher cerebrospinal centers of spiritual perception to the lower channels of life identified with sensual mortal consciousness.
The sex impulse is the single most physically magnetic power that pulls the life and consciousness down from Spirit in the higher centers in the brain, out through the coccygeal center into matter and body consciousness. The beginner in yoga meditation experiences all too definitely how grounded he is by the stubborn attachment of his life and energy to the body, sometimes without realizing that it is his uncontrolled thoughts and acts of sex that are primarily responsible for his earthbound condition.”
Extract from commentary in Bhagavad Gita by Paramahansa Yogananda
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“…in the common presence of the three-brained beings there a special organ (kundabuffer) with properties that, first, would make them perceive reality ‘upside down’ and, second, would cause every repeated impression from the outside to crystallize in them data that engender factors for evoking sensations of ‘pleasure’ and ‘enjoyment.”
“This impulse is now called ‘pleasure’, and in order to satisfy it they were already beginning to exist in a manner unbecoming to three-centered beings, that is to say, most of them gradually began to remove this sacred being-substance (‘sperm ) from themselves for the satisfaction of this impulse alone .”
“Owing to this, and also to the fact that most of them had ceased to utilize this substance consciously for coating their higher being-bodies, it came about that when they did not remove it from themselves in ways that by then had become mechanical, they naturally experienced a sensation called ‘sirklinimana,’ a state they describe as ‘feeling out of sorts,’ and which is invariably accompanied by what is called ‘mechanical suffering.
George Ivanovich Gurdieff
Extract from book “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”
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Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Sexual desire, vulgar attraction for the opposite sex, is the greatest impurity. This causes the real bondage.
“A man has a thousand and one desires. But the central strong desire is the sexual desire. The fundamental desire is the urge for a mate. All hang on this central basic desire. The desire for money, the desire for a son, the desire for property, the desire for houses, the desire for cattle and other desires come later on.”
~ Swami Sivananda
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 