(18) Sex Love and Meditation (The Meditation)

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Meditation for Today

“Transforming Sexual Energy”

Each thing has its own right time. Each thing has to be done in its moment.
While young, don't be afraid of love. If you are afraid of love while young, in
old age you will become obsessed; and then it will be difficult to move deeply
in love, and the mind will be obsessed.

Whatsoever you go on seeking in the mechanical ways of sexuality is not the
search for beauty.
Sex is chemical; it releases certain hormones in your body. It gives you a

certain illusory euphoria. It gives you a few moments when you feel at the top
of the world.
If you remain confined to sex, then you will simply waste your energy. By and

by, the energy will ooze out of you, and you will remain just a dead shell.

The Method

One small technique will be of tremendous help. Whenever you feel sex desire

arising, there are three possibilities: one, indulge in it – ordinary, everybody is
doing that; second: repress it, force it down so it goes beyond your
consciousness into the darkness of the unconscious, throw it into the basement
of your life. That's what your so-called extraordinary people are doing –

mahatmas, saints, monks. But both are against nature. Both are against the
inner science of transformation.

The third – a very rare minority ever tries it – is when the sex desire arises,
close your eyes. It is a very valuable moment: desire arising is energy arising.
It is like the sun rising in the morning. Close your eyes; this is the moment to
be meditative. Move downwards to the sex center where you are feeling the

thrill the vibration, the kick.

Move there and just be a silent onlooker. Witness it, don't condemn it. The

moment you condemn you have gone far away from it. And don't enjoy it,
because the moment you enjoy you are unconscious. Just be alert, watchful,
like a lamp burning in a dark night. You just take your consciousness there,

unflickering, unwavering. You see what is happening at the sex center. What is
this energy?

Just watch the fact that an energy is arising near the sex center. There is a

thrill – watch it. And watching it, you will feel a totally new quality of energy.
Watching it, you will see it is rising upwards. It is finding a path inside you.
And the moment it starts rising upwards you will feel a coolness falling on you,

a silence surrounding you, a grace, a beatitude, a benediction, a blessing all
around you.

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It is no longer like a thorn, painful. It no longer hurts; it is very soothing, like a
balm. And the more you remain aware, the higher it will go. If it can come up

to the heart, which is not very difficult – difficult, but not very difficult... If you
remain alert you will see it has come to the heart. When it comes to the heart
you will know for the first time what love is.