ON LUST AND ANGER, Sex and Brahmcharya ब्रह्मचार्य -2

THE WORKING OF THE SEX IMPULSE

Cupid directly shoots an arrow through the bewitching eyebrows and piercing glances of a young lady with tender waist, rosy cheeks and red lips.

Moonlit night scents and perfumes, flowers and garlands, sandal-paste, meat and liquor, theatres and novels are his mighty weapons to delude the passionate young men. Reason and discrimination take to their heels the moment their hearts are filled with burning passion. They all become absolutely blind. Cupid makes intellectual persons, great orators, ministers and research scholars, doctors and barristers, as pleasure deer or pet dogs in the laps of young ladies. Reason has temporarily taken its seat in the dry intellect of a learned pundit or a professor. He has no real stamina. Cupid knows his strength. Cupid reigns supreme everywhere. He penetrates the hearts of all. He knows how to tickle their nerves. Within the twinkling of an eye he destroys reason, discrimination and understanding by simply inflaming the passion of young men.

Even in dreams Cupid has full sway, even when all the Indriyas इन्द्रियां are silent. Ladies are his infallible agents! They are always at his beck and call. Cupid operates through their smiles, bewitching glances and sweet words, through their melodious songs and ball dances.

Young girls work quickly to excitement of men and can disturb the peace of even the minds of sages. Cupid can make the nervous system of Brahmachari ब्रहमचारी quiver in the delirium of imaginary pleasure even when they think of the pictures of young, beautiful ladies, even when they hear the gentle sounds of their bracelets and anklets, even when they think of their blooming faces. What to speak of touch then?

Man wishes to have children to maintain the race or line. This is the reproductive instinct. The desire to copulate proceeds from this sexual instinct. The strength of the sexual desire depends upon the sexual impulse.

According to the Gita गीता, impulse is Vegam वेगम or force. Lord Krishna भगवान् कृष्ण says, "He who is able to endure here on earth, before he is liberated from the body, the force born of desire and passion, he is harmonised, he is a happy man".

Impulse is a mighty force. It exerts influence on the mind. It is a force suddenly communicated to the mind.

Just as petrol or steam moves the engine, the instincts and impulses move this body. The instincts are the prime movers of all human activities. They give a push to the body and move the Indriyas इन्द्रियां to action. The instincts create habits. The instinctive impulses supply the driving power by which all mental activities are kept up. These impulses are mental forces. They operate through the mind and the intellect. They mould the life of a man. The mystery of life lies in them. The attraction towards women in men is born of Rajas रजस. That unknown attraction and happiness in their company is the seed of the sex impulse. This attraction, which is like a bubble in the beginning, later on assumes the form of a formidable, uncontrollable wave of strong passion or sexual appetite.

You must understand the psychological working of the sex impulse. When there are itches on the body, mere scratching of them is a pleasure. The sex impulse is only a nervous itching. The satisfaction of this impulse begets a delusive pleasure, but it has a positive effect on the spiritual well-being of the person.

Mind, Prana प्राण and Veerya वीर्य are the three links of one chain. They are the three pillars of the edifice of Jivatma जीवात्मा. Destroy one pillar—mind, Prana प्राण or Veerya वीर्य —and the whole building will fall to pieces.

Mind, Prana प्राण and Veerya वीर्य are one. By controlling the mind, you can control Prana प्राण and semen. By controlling Prana प्राण you can control the mind and semen. By controlling semen, you can control the mind and Prana प्राण.

Mind, Prana प्राण and Veerya वीर्य  are under the one Sambandha संबंध or connection or circuit. If the mind is controlled, Prana प्राण and Veerya वीर्य are controlled automatically. He who suspends or restrains Prana प्राण restrains also the working of the mind and the movement of the Veerya वीर्य. Again, if the Veerya वीर्य is controlled, and if it is made to flow upwards into the brain by pure thoughts and the practice of Viparita Karani Mudras विप्रीत करनी मुद्रा such as Sarvangasana सर्वान्गस्ना and Sirshasana शीर्षासन and Pranayama प्राणायाम, the mind and the Prana प्राण are automatically controlled.

The mind is set in motion or rendered active by two things—the vibration of Prana प्राण and the Vasanas वासना or subtle desires. Where the mind is absorbed, there the Prana प्राण is restrained; and where the Prana प्राण is fixed, there the mind also is absorbed. Mind and Prana प्राण are intimate companions, like a man and his shadow. If the mind and the Prana प्राण are not restrained, all the organs of sensation and action keep actively engaged in their respective functions.

When a man is excited by passion, the Prana प्राण is set in motion. Then the whole body obeys the dictate of the mind just as a soldier obeys the command of his commander. The vital air or Prana प्राण moves the internal juice or semen. The semen is put into motion. It falls downwards, just as the clouds burst into rain water, just as the fruits, flowers and leaves of the trees drop down by the force of the blowing winds.

If the Veerya वीर्य is lost, Prana प्राण gets unsteady. Prana प्राण is agitated. The man becomes nervous. Then the mind also cannot work properly. The man becomes fickle-minded. There is mental weakness.

If the Prana प्राण is rendered steady, the mind also becomes steady. If the Veerya वीर्य is steady, the mind also is steady. If the Veerya वीर्य is steady, the mind also is steady. If the Drishti दृष्टी or vision is steady, the mind also becomes steady. Therefore, control the Prana प्राण, the Veerya वीर्य and the Drishti दृष्टी .

God is Rasa रस. Raso Vai Sah रसो वः शा. Rasa रस is Veerya वीर्य, the vital fluid or semen. You can get eternal bliss by the attainment of Rasa रस or Veerya वीर्य only.

Rasohyevayam Labdhva Anandi Bhavati. रासो येवः यम लाभ्दवः आनंदीयः भवति

Grasp fully the importance and value of this vital essence of life. Veerya वीर्य is all power. Veerya वीर्य is all money. Veerya वीर्य is God. Veerya वीर्य is Sita सीता. Veerya वीर्य is Radha राधा. Veerya वीर्य is Durga दुर्गा. Veerya वीर्य is God in motion. Veerya वीर्य is dynamic Will. Veerya वीर्य is Atma-Bal आत्मबल. Veerya वीर्य is God’s Vibhuti विभूति. The Lord says in the Gita गीता: "Paurusham Nrishu (पूरुषम नरिषू ). I am the seed or virility in men". Veerya वीर्य is the essence of life, thought, intelligence and consciousness. Therefore, preserve this vital fluid very, very carefully and never waist it!

The earth is verily the essence of all these beings, water is the essence of the earth, herbs of water, flowers of herbs, fruits of flowers, man of fruits and semen is the essence of man

Semen contains water, small amounts of salt, protein, zinc and fructose sugar. It is slightly alkaline, which causes some to find the taste bitter or brackish, but neither male nor female sexual bodily fluids are in themselves harmful to a sexual partner, apart from concerns of STDs.