Q—What are the various effects of repressing or suppressing the sexual drive?
Guruji: Repressing—comes out as unconscious motivation taking the person towards self-defeating activities—destruction (anger), violence, domination, control of the other/environment.
Suppressing—comes out as constant internal conflict and anxiety, that then has to be shut into the hard shell of the ego (otherwise the anxiety would not allow day-to-day functioning, dealing with the world). Ego, in turn, generates its own effects, such as making the person cut off from any source of energy (stops one from merging).
Love, as understood by many other traditions that apparently ask one to “set aside” the sexual desire (and are thereby held with a certain esteem in society), is to do with merger, with connectivity, with expanding one’s consciousness, making it vast, letting it go into all objects and things. Often this is to be brought about by the act of complete attention.
Sexual activity is a way of doing the same meditations, only here the substance is the sexual drive. (An interesting aspect is to do with why only sex, and not envy or greed, be the substance… (sex is double-edged).) Furthermore, becoming vulnerable, dissolving the ego shell, opening up to energy, unclogging perceptual filters are all things that define any process or method of meditating/Being/Loving.
To use the sexual drive as a way of meditating is not only an excellent or beneficial idea, but also essential to free the individual of any repressions related to this inescapable fact of us/all life. (Kāma—neglected…)
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