ALL MEN MUST DIE

f life are fundamentally rooted in duality: like light and darkness, male and female, life and death.

Always duality is trying to meet because what was one has manifested itself as two; now all the time there is a longing to become one again. This longing finds ex-pression in many ways. When you are young and your intelligence is hijacked by your hormones, physical sex will be the way. When you become middle aged, when your intelligence is hijacked by your emotion, then love will be the way. Only if you transcend all this, when you seek union on a much higher level of awareness, then we say it is yoga or the Divine.

The two energies which we call male and female are constantly trying to come together. And in this process, there are certain functions nature wants to fulfill, like procreation and survival of the species. Sex is just two opposites making an attempt to become one. The intention is good, but the method is hopeless.

If you are seeking oneness through the physical, you may have a few moments of make believe unity, but physical bodies can never become one. Unless you transcend the physical, there is no question of oneness. “I don’t want any oneness. I am just seeking pleasure.” That is also OK, but you will see it is not enough. A human being will not be satisfied with it.

Most sex-based relationships are entered into not for love or joy, but because people feel lost and insecure by themselves. The more you are identified with your physical body, the more insecure you become because this body is never safe; in the next moment, anything could happen. The need for sex increases dramatically when people are insecure. Physically, there is just a small difference between a man and a woman. But people made such a big issue of it.

This need between two biological entities of the same species is fine as a survival process; but if you are seeking anything beyond survival, it will never be enough. Only when a person transcends the limitations of duality, the Divine manifests itself. If there is something that you can refer to as the Divine, where can it be? It has to be everywhere. What faculty do you have to experience something which is everywhere? Right now, the only faculties of experience within you are the five senses.

The five sense organs cannot experience anything if there is no comparison. Only because there is darkness, you know what light is. Only because there is silence, you know what sound is. Your sense organs always perceive everything in comparison; they cannot perceive anything in its totality.

The same situation is happening with the Divine. When there is nothing to compare, how will you recognise it? How will you experience it? Within the limitations of the five sense organs, there is no possibility.

One ex-pression of unconscious seeking of the Divine is called sex. If your seeking finds a conscious ex-pression, then we call it a spiritual process. If you are seeking oneness beyond all the limitations of your body, emotion and thought, then we call it yoga. A spiritual process simply means that you are seeking tools to go beyond the limitations of five sense perceptions and experience the union beyond the separation and isolation caused by physicality.