God has manifested in the world as sex. If you go to the old scriptures you will find it so particularly in Hindu scriptures. Why did God create the world? Hindu scriptures say, “Because desire arose in him – sex arose in him – he created the world.” All creation is out of sexual energy, desire – kama. But Hindus have been in a way very courageous.
They say God created the world; then he started creating animals, trees. How did he create so many trees? How did he create so many animals? What was his plan, blueprint?
How did he start working on such a complex world? Hindus say it is very simple. First he created a cow…. Hindus love the cow, so of course God has to create the cow first. And the cow looks so divine, so silent and graceful. He created the cow, and then he fell in love with the cow. No other religion is so daring – the father falling in love with the daughter. The cow is his daughter; he has created it. He fell in love; now what to do? He was in a mess himself. So he became a bull because that is the only way to love a cow; otherwise how will you love? To escape from that – as women are always escaping….
Female energy escapes. That is the game. Not really that a woman wants to escape; she plays the game of escaping. Hmm?… if a man approaches the woman and she simply is ready to go to bed with him, the man will start feeling a little worried. What is wrong with the woman? Because the game was not played. The whole beauty of love is not so much in the love as in the foreplay. You make so many efforts – the courtship? But the courtship is possible only if the woman is receding. Just see. Whenever you are talking to a woman, if you are interested in her, she will be moving back and you will be moving forward. But there is always a wall, so the woman goes against the wall; then she is caught. She always moves towards the wall – that too is intentional! It is all intentional.
It is the whole game, and a beautiful game.
So the cow started running to escape from the bull. She became a tigress. Then God has to become a tiger. She became a lioness – just to escape. God has to become a lion. And that’s how the whole world was created: the woman escaping; the man chasing. A beautiful story, and very true.
That’s how the whole world has been created: one energy escaping; another chasing.
Hide-and-seek – the woman hiding and hiding and hiding – and the beauty of it – and God finding her again and again, and she again hiding, and God finding her again – in new forms, in new flowers, in new birds, in new animals. And the game goes on… infinite is the leela. Hindus say God’s play is infinite.
But all play is sexual. Play as such is sexual because it is not work. You play it for its own sake. That’s why the Hindu conception of God is far superior to the Christian and Mohammedan and Jewish conceptions of God. The Jewish God looks like a worker, almost proletarian, a sudra. The Hindu God is not worried about work; he does not belong to any union of workers. He is a player, an actor. The whole world is his play. He enjoys it, and there is no end to it. In itself it is the end; it is not a means.
That’s the difference between work and play: work is always end-oriented. In itself it is useless, in itself you would not like to do it. You go to the office, to the factory, to the shop, and you work the whole day because something that you want – a car, a good house, a beautiful woman – is possible only if you earn money. You are not working in the factory because you love it, you are not in the office because you love it. You love certain other things, but they are not available without the work, so you have to fulfill the condition somehow. So you carry the work. The goal is somewhere else.
Play is totally different. You are playing; there is no goal to it. In itself it is the goal. You are enjoying the very activity in itself.
I have heard:
Lords Carnforth, Yewley, and Donnington were taking tea on the lawn one Sunday afternoon. The conversation turned to the subject of making love. Lord Carnforth maintained that it was ninety percent pleasure and ten percent work; Lord Yewley said it was fifty percent pleasure and fifty percent work; Lord Donnington, the eldest of the three, said it was ten percent pleasure and ninety percent work.
To settle the argument, they called over an old gardener who was working on the flower beds. When they put the question to him, he said, “Why is it one hundred percent pleasure, of course, your Lordships. If there was any work involved, you would have us servants doing it for you.”
Play is a hundred percent pleasure. The Hindu concept of God is that of a player, and the whole creation is out of play. And sex is the energy involved in the play.
Don’t get stuck there, because there are higher games, subtler games to be played with.
First you play with a woman outside; that is the lowest possibility. Then you start playing with the woman inside. That’s what yoga calls the meeting of sun and moon, of pingala and ida. You start playing with the inner woman if you are a man, or if you are a woman, with the inner man.
And you have both in you: no man is just a man, he has a woman inside him; no woman is just a woman, she has a man inside her. Has to be so, because you come out of the meeting of both. Your father gives something to you; your mother also gives something to you. Whether you are a man or a woman makes no difference. You are a meeting of two energies – male, female. Both contribute fifty percent to you.
So what is the difference between a man and a woman? The difference is like this: two coins are there, both are exactly the same, but one coin is heads up, another coin is tails up. Both are exactly the same. The difference is of emphasis. The difference is not of quality, the difference is not of energy; the difference is only of emphasis. A man is consciously man, unconsciously woman; a woman is consciously woman, unconsciously man.
Once you know how to play the game with the outer woman – and that’s what my insistence is, that you have to learn the game outside first – then you can start playing the game with the subtle inner woman and man. First you have to seduce the outer woman and man and play the game there because it is very gross and can be learned easily. It is just a preparation for some greater play. Then you move within. Then you start seeking the other who is hiding somewhere in your being, you find it, and then a deep orgasm happens within you.
That orgasm goes on becoming higher and higher and bigger and bigger, and the ultimate orgasm happens at sahasrara, at the crown, in your last center of being; where God the ultimate meets nature the ultimate, where two ultimates meet and mingle and merge into each other, where consciousness meets matter, purusha meets prakriti, where the visible meets the invisible, and the ultimate ecstasy happens.
This is a game. You have to go on playing it, as beautifully as possible. And you have to learn the art of it.
So if you repress, you have to repress continuously. If you repress, you have to be continuously on guard and you cannot relax. Relaxation is possible only when you don’t have any enemy within; only then can you relax. How can you relax otherwise?
Relaxation is a state of mind where there is no repression, not even a trace.
A small child relaxes. The older you grow, the more difficult it becomes to let go. The small child relaxes so deeply. Just see. A small child may fall asleep while eating at the dining table. He may fall asleep while playing with his toys. He can fall asleep anywhere.
And it becomes more and more difficult for grown-up people to sleep, to relax, to love, to merge. So many repressions. And you are all carrying the load; you are loaded very much.
And this load is very complex also; it is not simple. If you suppress sex – try to understand it – you will have to suppress many other things side by side, because everything is interrelated. Inside, it is a very complicated thing. If you suppress sex, you will have to suppress your breathing also. You cannot breathe well, deep, because deep breathing goes on and massages the inner center of sex. If you really breathe well, you will feel sexual. You will have to suppress breathing; you cannot breathe deeply. If you suppress sex, you will have to suppress many things in your food because there are a few foods which give you more sexual energy than others. Then you will have to change your foods. If you suppress sex, you cannot sleep well because if you sleep well and you relax perfectly, you will have sexual dreams. You can have ejaculations in your sleep. The fear will be there. You will not be able to sleep well. Now your whole life will become an entangled thing, a complexity, a knot.
You can repress sex, but then you will have to become very, very tense, almost maddeningly tense. That’s what must have happened: “But tensions existed there in my mind.”
“After coming to your shelter, tensions have disappeared….” Very good. Of course when tensions disappear, then the sex that you have been repressing through those tensions will come up, bubble up again.
“… but a new problem of sex has arisen.” Don’t call it a “problem.” Just call it: “now sexual energy is flowing again.” Now your sexual energy is no longer a solid thing; it has become liquid and flowing. Now your sex is alive again, not crippled and dead. You have become young again.
My whole effort is how to uncondition you from the teachers you have been with and the scriptures you have been reading and all the nonsense that you have gone through – how to uncondition you. Ninety percent of my work is because you have learned something wrong and you have to unlearn it. Now, again, if you call it a problem, it is not you. Your so-called teacher’s voice is again working through you; he is sitting there on the throne of your heart and saying, “Look. The problem is arising again. Stop it! Repress it!” You will have to be indifferent to this voice.
If you want to be with me, you have to be alive – so totally alive that nothing is excluded from it, everything is included. That is the beginning of the work.
If you can relax, you can reach God. It is not an effort to reach God. It is effortless relaxation, it is a let-go.
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