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while we develop the ability to cultivate sexual
energy endlessly upward. It might seem like we are
throwing the baby out with the bath water here. After
all, orgasm is the deepest pleasure we have known in
our life. This is a normal and valid concern, and we
are right to ask, “What about orgasm? What happens
to it?”
These writings are not anti-orgasm. In fact, the
path recommended in the AYP writings is a path of
pleasure, a path of ecstasy. Orgasm is an ecstatic
response in the body that is elicited by a particular
type of stimulation – sexual stimulation that is
biologically oriented toward reproduction. The
condition in the nervous system that we call
enlightenment is also an ecstatic response in the body
that is elicited by a particular type of stimulation –
stimulation by yoga practices that is biologically
oriented toward the birth of our awareness in
unending pure bliss consciousness and divine ecstasy.
Is enlightenment at the expense of orgasm? No,
enlightenment is a flowering of orgasm, an expansion
of orgasm into endless full bloom in the whole body.
The great 19 th century Indian sage, Ramakrishna,
said that divine ecstasy is like innumerable yonis
(female sex organs) in continual orgasm in every
atom and pore of our body.
So, while in the beginning it might seem like we
are putting something important on the back shelf,
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– Tantra