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Subtle Energetic Interchange, Sexual Relations and the Inner Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Human interactions. Human relationships have both a
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  surface meaning and a subtle, hidden, energetic action.
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  One of the most powerful vital energies in human life is sexual
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  relations. By examining how this force
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  operates both overtly and on the occult levels, we can quickly
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  see the mechanism that takes place with all vital forces at
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  work. In human affairs.
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  The sexual energy is alluring to most human beings.
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  It is surrounded by a host of taboos, which makes it even more
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  tempting to people who try to figure it out in their lives
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  while trying to address the mixed signals they get from the
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  society. For some, the ostensible purpose
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  of sexual relations is purely for the purpose of bringing
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  children into the world. It is, however, a fact that
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  sexual activity takes place for many reasons not associated with
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  childbearing. There are other values
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  associated with sex that go beyond the reproductive
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  necessity. This brings us to review a
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  spectrum of hidden meanings behind the sexual activity that
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  takes place. On the one extreme, some use it
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  to establish dominance, to humiliate and control others, or
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  to enslave someone to their will.
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  Sexual violence has nothing to do with sex per SE.
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  It is rather A use of the sexual act to control, dominate, and in
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  most cases to make up for a sense of inferiority that the
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  perpetrator feels about himself. He seeks to aggrandize himself
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  by making other subservient to himself and by humiliating them
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  to make himself feel superior. This is, however, and extreme,
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  and there are other ways to approach the sexual energy.
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  For instance, there are individuals who understand that
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  the sexual energy should be controlled and redirected,
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  repurposed, sublimated, to build up other higher energetic powers
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  in the being. Many yogic practitioners
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  describe the conversion of the basic sexual force retus into a
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  foundational and transformational force, ojas,
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  that sends the energy upwards from the first chakra to
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  successively higher energy centers in the being and their
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  characteristic powers and expression, and which leads to
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  eventual liberation. We see Western psychologists
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  describing the transformation of the basic sexual impulse into a
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  creative force once controlled and directed.
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  As a corollary to this view, the sexual energy need not be
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  carried out in overt physical acts in order to be felt and
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  responded to. We can observe the sexual
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  tension that arises when an individual focuses attention on
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  another with a powerful sexual urge, and when the other person
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  is able to vibrate to the same force, a reciprocating response
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  occurs. Western science describes the
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  action of pheromones that automatically activate the
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  sexual response in people, but it goes further than this, to an
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  actual vital vibratory pattern that can be received, accepted
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  and responded to by creation of a sympathetic vibration in the
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  other person. Even at a distance beyond the
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  range of the pheromones. Much of modern cinema works to
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  create sexual tension in the viewers as our modern society is
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  increasingly fixated on sexuality, its allure and
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  exploring the taboos that have arisen in the society through
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  millennia of attempts to control this powerful vital force.
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  For most people, however, engaged in relationships with
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  others on an interpersonal basis, there are many more
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  messages sent through sexual relations than just the overt
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  physical act, or even the overt enjoyment or sensory stimulation
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  that may occur. There can be feelings
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  communicated of caring, intimacy, support, love,
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  goodwill, and a sense of growing closer, sharing life energies
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  and joining forces to create a strong power of common action in
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  the world. When there is mutuality in the
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  relationship, a deep mutual bonding can result in such
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  cases. When the relationship is not
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  completely mutual, there can be a sense of draining or drawing
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  away of the other party's energy, or a communication of
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  feelings of sadness, depression or despair.
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  Anything active in one person can be communicated by this
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  close linkage to the other person involved.
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  For the yogic practitioner living in the world, it becomes
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  important to be aware of the forces at work both overtly and
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  covertly, and be able to choose how and in what manner to have
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  such a relationship and what the boundaries can and should be in
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  any such relation. As with every force in the
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  world, the seeker will recognize the place and right use of the
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  sexual energy and determine at some point how to uplift,
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  transform and develop the evolutionary next step in human
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  interactions. Sri Aurobindo writes Quote There
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  is always a drawing of vital forces from one to another in
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  all human social mixture that takes place automatically.
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  Lovemaking is one of the most powerful ways of each drawing
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  upon the other's vital force, or of one drawing the others, which
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  also often happens in A1 sided way to the great detriment of
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  the other. In the passage come many things.
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  Good and bad, elation, feeling of strength and support,
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  infiltration of good or bad qualities, interchange of
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  psychological moods, States and movements, depressions,
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  exhaustion, the whole gamut. People don't know it, which is a
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  mercy of God upon them. But when one gets into a certain
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  yogic consciousness, one becomes very much aware and sensitive to
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  all this interchange and action and reaction.
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  But also one can build a wall against reject, et cetera, et
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  cetera. It is a wall of consciousness
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  that one has to build. Consciousness is not something
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  abstract. It is like existence itself, or
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  ananda or mind or prana, something very concrete.
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  If one becomes aware of the inner consciousness, one can do
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  all sorts of things with it. Send it out as a stream of
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  force, erect a circle or wall of consciousness around oneself.
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  Direct an idea so that it shall enter somebody's head in
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  America, etcetera, et cetera. End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
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  and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter One,
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  Life Through the Eyes of the Yogin, pages 16 to 17.