There Is no good, bad or evil: no sinner, no saint. It simply exists, it knows, it is bliss. Yet, this Sat Chit Ananda subsumes in it all possible flows of time, all possible life forms, all forms of good, bad and evil. It is the womb of the world: it is also its creator, the cosmic phallus, and it is their union which brings time into being, space into being. Space is the womb in which time is the phallus moves manifesting manifold forms of illusory world. The illusion is real as long as it lasts though. Once we wake up from our waking state (in which we perceive this illusory world projected in a subfield of consciousness to be real) the whole world is seen to be what it is, really, a dream of no consequence, just a divine play. The energy of GOD is contained in TIME, the manifestor of changing forms. Energy is canonically conjugate to Time. Divine Energy is Kali, the fierce Goddess of Death and destruction, and also Sundari, the beautiful one, the aesthetic perfection of the Muses of DESIRE, KNOWLEDGE, & ACTION.
How can we freeze time?By being light. This is what Einstein taught us. If we are heavy, time overtakes us, we are subject to the ravages of time, and we will be destroyed. The secret of immortality, the pot of nectar for which Gods and Demons fight, lies in freezing time, and this can be achieved through overcoming body consciousness and merging our consciousness into the universal consciousness without any address, that is, name and form.
The universe of name and form that we perceive is one pole, called jiva, the individual: the unified field of awareness is the other pole, called GOD. The symbol of fire connects these two poles and makes them one. What is offered into the sacred fire is thus preserved. If the fire is external, it brings the desired fruit to the sacrificer in the field of time. If the fire is internal, and sacrifices are made into the internal fire, it gives the fruit of immortality and transcendence.
The Vedas prescribe the use of external ritual to obtain the objects of desire; it is called Bahiryaga. In major sacrifices like AGNISTOMA, ATIRATRA, VAJAPEYA. POUNDARIKA, SOUTRAMANI, ASWAMEDHA etc, it is mandatory to sacrifice an animal and offer an internal layer called VAPAinto the sacred fire. Terminating the sacrifice, in a stage called Purnahuti, the complete offering, the sacrificer and partner perform an intercourse and offer the love juices into the fire. Vedas consider sex to be sacred, and worthy of being offered to GOD in its most sacred rituals. Offering the seed into the fire is the same as offering one’s own offspring into fire. What level of detachment and understanding of the workings of life must be there for such an act to be performed!
Upanishads prescribe the use of the internal ritual. Here the fire is internally generated either through yoga by a single person or by a participating male female couple in sexual union. The purpose of the union however is NOT to get a physical orgasm which may lead to conception, but to use the coupling simply as a means to generate internal fire into which lust itself is sacrificed. In such cases where Bhoga combines with Yoga, all identifications such as ‘I am such and such a person’ must be shed, and it is precisely this attitude of nonidentification with the individual ego sense that sanctifies such a union, and distinguishes it from a carnal union.
How can we freeze time?By being light. This is what Einstein taught us. If we are heavy, time overtakes us, we are subject to the ravages of time, and we will be destroyed. The secret of immortality, the pot of nectar for which Gods and Demons fight, lies in freezing time, and this can be achieved through overcoming body consciousness and merging our consciousness into the universal consciousness without any address, that is, name and form.
The universe of name and form that we perceive is one pole, called jiva, the individual: the unified field of awareness is the other pole, called GOD. The symbol of fire connects these two poles and makes them one. What is offered into the sacred fire is thus preserved. If the fire is external, it brings the desired fruit to the sacrificer in the field of time. If the fire is internal, and sacrifices are made into the internal fire, it gives the fruit of immortality and transcendence.
The Vedas prescribe the use of external ritual to obtain the objects of desire; it is called Bahiryaga. In major sacrifices like AGNISTOMA, ATIRATRA, VAJAPEYA. POUNDARIKA, SOUTRAMANI, ASWAMEDHA etc, it is mandatory to sacrifice an animal and offer an internal layer called VAPAinto the sacred fire. Terminating the sacrifice, in a stage called Purnahuti, the complete offering, the sacrificer and partner perform an intercourse and offer the love juices into the fire. Vedas consider sex to be sacred, and worthy of being offered to GOD in its most sacred rituals. Offering the seed into the fire is the same as offering one’s own offspring into fire. What level of detachment and understanding of the workings of life must be there for such an act to be performed!
Upanishads prescribe the use of the internal ritual. Here the fire is internally generated either through yoga by a single person or by a participating male female couple in sexual union. The purpose of the union however is NOT to get a physical orgasm which may lead to conception, but to use the coupling simply as a means to generate internal fire into which lust itself is sacrificed. In such cases where Bhoga combines with Yoga, all identifications such as ‘I am such and such a person’ must be shed, and it is precisely this attitude of nonidentification with the individual ego sense that sanctifies such a union, and distinguishes it from a carnal union.
Amritananda
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