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Sexual Union

Many mystics draw parallels between the ecstatic state and sexual union. This can be shocking to more orthodox religious sensibilities, but the comparison can be appropriate.

The kundalini is located at the base of the spine. Its rising is often signaled by a heat or pressure in the seat. A pleasant tension and sense of opening in the perineum -- the point between the anus and the genitals -- is felt.

Without wanting to sound crass, I can't deny that this sensation is similar to orgasm. But, whereas the typical sexual orgasm is focused outward and quickly dissipates, this energy turns inward and upward, spreading a glowing awareness of bliss throughout the body and mind.

Certain spiritual traditions such as Tantra and Taoism sometimes make a conscious use of this energetic parallel and seek to awaken the kundalini energy through sacred sexual practices.

On an even deeper level, this union is the merging of the individual sense of self with with the Divine, the Eternal Self.

See also

	Lover and Beloved
	Marriage
	Marriage
	Marriage
	Marriage

Poems with the theme of Sexual Union

	Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World)
	Basava The waters of joy
	Clare of Assisi Draw me after You!
	Clare of Assisi O blessed poverty,
	Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste
	Cloud of Unknowing What Am I?
	Ghalib, Mirza The Rose with its redolent petals
	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Oh, happy he who still can hope in our day (from Faust)
	Granger, Ivan M. Bent
	Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion
	Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Covers Her Face with Both Hands
	Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization
	Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
	Janabai There is nothing empty of divine
	Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda)
	Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda)
	Jeffers, Robinson Rock and Hawk
	John of the Cross Dark Night
	Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) This mind, like a firefly, flashes into existence,
	Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues
	Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
	Lee, Li-Young Nativity
	Machado, Antonio The Waterwheel
	Mahadevi, Akka It was like a stream
	Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters
	Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks
	Milarepa Response to a Logician
	Milosz, Czeslaw Late Ripeness
	Mirabai No one knows my invisible life.
	Parsell, Virginia Portrait
	Po, Li In the Quiet Night
	Rahman Baba The One
	Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman
	Rosenstock, Gabriel (2) From each and every pore (from Year of the Goddess)
	Rumi, Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness
	Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363)
	Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa)
	Sarmad My friend, engage your heart in his embrace
	Soseki, Muso Old Creek
	Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit
	Symeon the New Theologian By what boundless mercy, my Savior,
	Tagore, Rabindranath (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali)
	Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa)
	Tukaram The Price?
	Vivekananda, Swami Kali the Mother
	Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself)

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Sexual Union

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