Khushwant Singh on Women, Sex, Love and Lust by Khushwant Singh

Author:Khushwant Singh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagreed and said that there was only one way and sexual intercourse was the first step towards it. He maintained that religion as practiced, was false and its propagators agents of Satan. They degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented. He went on to add: ‘I call religion the art of living. Religion is not a way to undermine life; it is a medium for delving deeply into the mysteries of existence. Religion is not turning one’s back on life, it is facing life squarely. Religion is not escaping from life; religion is embracing life fully. Religion is the total realization of Life.’

Since love is the essence of all religions and sex the essence of love, you cannot side-step it to proceed on your voyage of discovery. Rajneesh wrote: ‘Sex is the beginning of the journey to love. The origin, the Gangotri of the Ganges of Love, is sex, passion – and everybody behaves like its enemy. Every culture, every religion, every guru, every seer has attacked this Gangotri, this source, and the river has remained bottled up. The hue and cry has always been, “Sex is sin. Sex is irreligious. Sex is poison”, but we never seem to realize that ultimately it is the sex energy itself that travels to and reaches the inner ocean of love. Love is the transformation of sex energy.’

Because sex has been condemned and suppressed, ‘it has become an obsession, a disease, a perversion,’ said the Acharya, and advised us to ‘accept sex with joy. Acknowledge its sacredness … When a man approaches his wife he should have a sacred feeling, as if he were going to a temple. And when a wife goes to her husband she should be full of reverence one has nearing God. In the moments of sex, lovers pass through coitus, and that stage is very near to the temple of God, to where he is manifest in creative formlessness.’ He conjectured that man had his first glimpse of samadhi during sexual intercourse culminating in a climax when the mind becomes empty of thoughts. Thus vishyanand (bliss of coitus) and brahmanand (bliss of union with God) are much the same; one is ephemeral, the other eternal.

Not all sexual intercourse is experience of divinity. For that you have to first get rid of your ego –‘Unless I dissolve myself, how can the other unite with me?’ he asked. Love always gives, the ego is ever the grabber; love is motiveless, the ego always motivated; the ego only understands the language of taking, the language of giving is love. The second condition to be fulfilled is the feeling of timelessness. ‘In orgasm, the sense of time is nonexistent. There is no past, no future, there is only the present moment.’

The Acharya had some practical suggestions to overcome an unhealthy obsession with sexuality. Children should

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