Inspect the sexual force

The corporeal: The caricature begins when our yogis talk of “purifying our heart and mind of worldly judgment and desires.” That word ‘purifying’ is potent. Instantly, the word ‘impure’ Vis a Vis sex dances in our imagination and becomes part of our belief, our breaking in. The fact is: there’s nothing impure about sex. If your mind is pure, if your intention is pure, you’ll see sex as a delightfully close means to articulate your love. As author Erica Jong’s heroine Leila says in the book Any Woman’s Blues’ “All my life I’ve wanted nothing but to bring sex and companionship together…” having sex develop a special closeness. As one young swami was recitation on TV recently, “when I was newly married, I saw romance in the whole obsession, poetry spouted out of my mouth. Everything looked gorgeous, special...” in her book, Eat, Pray, Love, author Elizabeth Gilbert is all eloquence, and “Felipe and I are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to belly accomplishment story. There are no parts of our bodies which are in any way allergic to any parts of the other’s body. Not anything is hard, not anything is refused. Everything in our sensual universe is simply and methodically complement. And, also…complimented.”