The Sacred Purpose of Man’s Love
When someone begins to make love as a conscious practice, the mind becomes more still with less erroneous movement and mental picturing. For a man this can be particularly challenging and disorientating, especially if he has become reliant on the imagination to become sexually aroused to achieve an erection. This is accentuated if he masturbates to excess and regularly watches pornography. There is nothing wrong with the act of masturbation itself, but the desire for release of the inner force of sexual energy becomes less oppressive when the imaginative faculty is mastered. This is not suppression but a broadening of the consciousness centre of the genitals.
Since puberty, the pleasure of the penis attaches the mind and emotions to the intensity of feelings which are carried over into the lovemaking with his mate. This magnifies the need to climax to repeat the good feelings, instead of allowing an orgasm to happen naturally where it does. The heightened anticipation and excitement obscures the greater purpose of making love in the flesh.
What is the greater purpose of making love? In the first instance it’s for the man to contain the transmission of love at deepening gradations of pleasure. But he must know what he’s doing and not, as some men have discovered, to prolong his orgasm and profane the virtue of woman by his sexual virtuosity for control and self satisfaction. A man of love is fully present in the act of love and releases every moment the immediacy of love and scintillating presence of sheer beauty. He discovers that he needs no other embellishments such as fantasy or external stimuli with drugs or alcohol to add to the fulfilment of this state.
Contained within the conscious presence of love is the knowledge of its sacred purpose. Man’s spiritual purpose is to restore woman, his love, to her original state of purity; she is unable to do this on her own. The authority of man, and the only way it can be demonstrated at the spiritual octave, is for him to hold back the forces of the world to enable the female principle to unite with God in existence. This union is made real in the flesh and realised as the tantric union of man and woman no longer separated in time. The bodies must part but what is retained within the consciousness is the eternal union which endures as the light of love – the garland of the divine lovers on earth.