Gunas and Sex
“Gunas” is the term that denotes sets of qualities, primarily, of human souls. There are three gunas (although there are states “above the gunas” — i.e. Divine states [22]).
Tamas guna — is ignorance, rudeness, violence, and malice.
Rajas guna — is a purer, still intense passionate state.
Sattva guna — comprises purity, peace, clear understanding, and harmony.
If a representative of the tamas guna disincarnates without having changed his status — his abode will inevitably be hell. But representatives of the sattva guna will live in paradise. People of rajas guna may find themselves in the intermediate states. (For more detail see [17-19,21-24]). Therefore it is in everyone’s interests to strive for sattva (and then further). For this on needs to learn methods of changing oneself.
In the context of this book we can discuss manifestations of sexuality, pertaining to representatives of each guna.
Tamasic sexuality is rude, primitive, and absolutely egotistic.
Rajastic one — still has some traces of egotism, and is passionate.
Sattvic sexuality is tender, caring, non-obtrusive, and harmonious.
From spiritual standpoint only the latter has any significance. With its help one can establish in sattva and help others in it.
The fact is that sattva is pertinent to more women then men. Men who aspire towards acquiring sattvic qualities have to additionally work on self-transformation, taking sattvic women as models.
We have already mentioned that hormones of the female body make for development of sattvic state (although far from all women use this opportunity).
Now we will add that even anatomical structure of a healthy female body is a perfect model for attunement for men that allows them to refine their emotions.
Why, for instance, female breasts attract men so much? Because one of their primary qualities is tenderness.
The same qualities are pertinent to skin and the whole image of sattvic women.
Let women realize their natural purpose of spiritually helping men who are worthy of such help! And let men love their female assistants who are worthy of this tenderly and with care!
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There is an interesting observation: mammary glands of all mammals except for humans swell and become apparent only for a period of lactation. But mammary glands of women are “swollen” all the time starting from the time they reach a puberty age!
Why is that so? Why do women who are not breast-feeding have to wear this load on their bodies? What was the Creator’s purpose when He introduced this information into human genes?
Well, His plan was exactly what we are talking about right now.
When a woman accepts petting of man’s hands and lips on her breasts — fire of love kindles in her anahata chakra which is directly connected to her mammary glands with a large energy canals. Her spiritual heart grows as a result! What also grows is her spiritual potential that she can fully realize by redirecting her burning love to God afterwards.
And a man who is fondling his beloved voluntarily or not attunes to her refined love and becomes like her.
All people who love each other tenderly experience this. But if we do not understand a highest importance of these sublime states for our spiritual growth, for our ability to approach God and directly cognize Him, we can easily lose them, forget about them afterwards!
This is why it is very important to have comprehensive knowledge about God, principles of the Evolution of Consciousness and regularities of spiritual growth. It is only provided that we love consciously that sexual love will be able to help us accelerate the evolution of our souls. We share this knowledge with all people in our books [15-25].
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This is what Jesus Christ taught the men that were listening to Him:
“… I say unto you, after God your best thoughts should belong to the women and the wives, woman being for you the temple wherein you will obtain the most easily perfect happiness. Imbue yourselves in this temple with moral strength. Here you will forget your sorrows and your failures, and you will recover the lost energy necessary to enable you to help your neighbor.” (See in [22]).
