Sex Gives You Energy

Deva Agni, sexual energy is another name for your life force. The word sex has been much maligned, especially by religious groups; but there's nothing wrong with it. Sexual energy is a natural energy: you are born out of it. It is your creative energy. When the painter paints or the poet composes or the musician plays or the dancer dances, these are all expressions of your life force. Not only are children born out of your sexual energy, but everything that man has created on the earth has come out of sexual energy.

Sexual energy can have many transformations: at the lowest, it is biological; at the highest, it is spiritual. It has to be understood that all creative people are highly sexual. You can see the poets, you can see the painters, you can see the dancers. The same is true of mystics. Perhaps, they are the most sexual people in the world, because they are so full of life energy.

Sexual power
But sexual power is a totally different thing. Sexual power is politics. It is using your sex to dominate people. Domination can be done in many ways: somebody dominates because he has money, somebody dominates because he has physical strength, somebody dominates because he has knowledge, somebody dominates because he is smart enough to befool people and get their votes, and somebody can dominate through sexual power. One of the most beautiful women in the world was Cleopatra. She was a queen in Egypt. She used her power— her sex, her beauty, her charm — and remained the queen without ever taking her armies to fight with anybody. Sexual energy should not be used as a political weapon.

Spiritual potential
Sexual energy is your potentiality for spiritual growth. You can become enlightened because of your sexual energy. I have been searching for almost 35 years in all kinds of books, strange scriptures from Tibet and Ladakh and China and Japan and India which has the greatest number of scriptures in the world, and I have been looking for one thing: has there ever been an enlightened but impotent person? There is no recorded evidence anywhere... The impotent person has no life force; he is hollow. He cannot create anything.To create oneself as an enlightened being needs tremendous energy.

Never use your sex as a commodity, as a strategy to dominate, because then you are destroying the power that can take you to the highest peak of consciousness...

And as you start moving upwards...the name of the ladder is meditation...sex becomes love, sex becomes compassion, and ultimately sex becomes the explosion of your inner being, the illumination, the awakening, the enlightenment.

Sexual energy has to be understood naturally and helped through meditation to move upwards towards silent spaces, to pass through your heart and reach to the seventh centre at the highest point in your body...you will feel grateful towards the energy. Right now you feel only ashamed.