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Pravin Kumar
Age: 60 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:30 am |
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There is a beautiful saying of the old sages. In the old days a sage would give the blessing. "May you be blessed with ten sons and may your husband become your eleventh son." This is strange. It was the blessing that was given to the bride at the time of her marriage: may you be blessed with ten sons and may your husband become your eleventh son. These were wonderful people, with wonderful ways of thinking. And there was also a profound meaning behind it.
If the love between a husband and wife grows they will no longer be husband and wife: their relationship will change and there will be less sex between them. Their relationship will change into love. As long as there is sex, there is exploitation. Sex is exploitation -- and how can you exploit the person you love? Sex is the most degrading and the most exploitive use of a living being. If you love someone how can you exploit them in such a way? How can you use a living being in such a way? How can you use a living being in such a way? If you love someone, as your love goes deeper the exploitation will disappear. And if your love disappears the exploitation will disappear. And if your love disappears the exploitation will again increase.
This is why I would like to say to the person who has asked about how to make sex a creative energy that sex is a very mysterious energy. There is no energy on the planet as powerful as sexual energy. Most of man's focus is on sex. Ninety percent of his life is based in the sex center, it is not based in the divine. There are very few people whose lives revolve around the divine. Most people are revolving around and living their lives through the sex center. Sex is the greatest energy. And if understood rightly, you will see that there is no other energy which motivates man as much as sex. But this sexual energy itself can be transformed into love. And this same energy, if transformed, can become the path to enlightenment.
So it is worth noting that religion is deeply connected with sex -- not with the repression of sex, as is commonly understood, but with the transformation of sex. Religion is not about the repression of sex. Celibacy is not the opposite of sex, it is the transformation of sex. The energy of sex itself is transformed into the divine energy. The energy which was flowing downwards, which was descending, starts moving upwards. If the sexual energy is rising upwards it will help you to attain the ultimate state of consciousness. And if this energy is moving downwads it leads only to a mundane existence. But this energy can be transformed through love.
Learn how to love. Learn the meaning of love. Later on, when we talk about emotions, then you will clearly understand the meaning of love. For now I will say only this much.
One friend has asked: Why don't the sages work together as a group?
It is a very good question: why don't the sages, those who have known truth, work together as a group? I would like to say that the sages have always worked together. And I would like to add that not only have those sages who are alive worked together, but even the sages who dies twenty-five centuries ago are helping those who are alive. So it is not that only contemporary sages are working together. On the contrary, when considered historicaly, traditionally, they have always been working together.
If what I am saying is truth, it is because I have the support of Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna and Christ. If what I am saying is truth, then their words are also merged in mine. And if there is any strength in my words it is not only my own but the strength of all of those who have used these word in the past.
But the people who are not sages will never work together. And there are many so-called sages who are not real religious people, they only appear to be. Only unscrupulous people can work together with them, not the sages that I have just mentioned.
Why is it that these people cannot work together? -- because they have not become saints by dissolving their egos. Their sainthood is also a way to feed their egos. And where there is ego no meeting is possible because ego always wants to be on top.
I was at a conference to which many religious figures had been invited. It was a big event, many important religious leaders had been invited. I will not name them because someone might feel hurt, but many of India"s important people were there. The person who organized the event wanted all the guests to sit together on the stage and to address the audience from there. But one particular religious leader was not willing to sit with everyone else, and he sent a message asking him, "Who will be sitting above and who will sit below?" And he said,"I will sit above. I cannot sit beneath anyone/"
A person who speaks up for himself is at least straightforward, but someone who sends a message like this is complicated and very cunning. This man sent a message that he could not sit with everyone else. The big platform that had been organized was of no use, so every speaker had to sit alone on the stage to address the gathering. And the stage was big enough to seat a hundred people.
But how could a hundred religious leaders sit together? Amongst them there were a few shankaracharyas who could not sit anywhere except on their thrones. And if they oculd not sit on the floor, how could the other religious leaders sit on the floor next to their thrones?
It makes one wonder if people like this think that some chairs are greater than others, and if they still feel that you are measured by the seat you take, by how high or how low your seat is, it simply shows what they consider to be important.
Two religious leaders cannot meet because the problem will arise as to who will be the first to fold his hands in greeting, because the one who greets first in some way becomes lower than the other. It is surprising, because the person who folds his hands first is really the superior one. But these religious heads think that the one who folds his hands first becomes inferior.
I was at the meeting of an important religius man. A very important politician was also attending the meeting. The religious man was seated on a raised platform and the rest of us were seated below. The meeting began, and the politician said, "I would first like to ask why are we all seated down here and you are sitting up there? If you were going to give a speech it would be acceptable. But this is a meeting, there will be a discussion, and you are sitting so high that it will be impossible to discuss anything. Kindly come down."
But the religious man would not come down. Then the politician asked, "If you cannot come down, if there is a particular reason, then explain it to us."
But he could not answer, he was afraid. Instead, one of his disciples said, "It has always been the tradition that he should sit on a higher level."
The politician said, "He may be your guru, but he is not our guru." And he added, "And we folded our hands to greet you but you did not fold your hands in return -- you gave us your blessings. Consider this: if another religious man had come to meet you and you have given him your blessings, there would have been a fight. You also should have folded your hands."
And the reply was, "He cannot fold his hands because that is not the tradition."
The situation became so ugly that any discussion was impossible. I told this religious man, "I would like to ask for permission to say a few words to this politician." He gave me his permission. He wanted the incident to be finished with so that the meeting could proceed. Things had come to a standstill. I asked this politician, "Why is it that the first thing you noticed was that he is sitting higher than everyone else?" And I said, "And may I ask, did you notice that he is sitting higher than everyone else?" And I said, "And may I ask, did you notice that he is sitting up or did you notice that you have been made to sit below? -- because it is also possible that you could be asked to sit higher up: then I don't think you would have raised the question. If we all were sitting below and if you were sitting with him on the platform, I don't think you would have raised the question. The problem is not created by his sitting higher up, the problem for you is that you are sitting below."
That politician looked at me. He was in a position of great power at the time, and one of the most prominent people in India. He looked at me very attentively, he was a very sincere man. He said, "I accept that. Nobody has ever said this to me. Yes, this is being very egoistic."
The religious man was very pleased, and when we were leaving he put his arm around my shoulder and said, "You gave a very good reply to him." I told him, "That answer was not only for him, it was also meant for you." And I said to him, "I was sorry to see that he is more honest than you, and that you showed no honesty at all. He accepted that it is his ego, but you did not even acknowledge it; instead you fed your ego with the help of my answer."
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