A person who has no experience of sexual intercourse often sets out in search of samadhi or liberation. They often think that sexual intercourse yields nothing. How can they attain samadhi? How can they attain liberation? But they lack even a glimpse that would enable them to embark on the journey of samadhi or liberation.
The union of man and woman is a profound union. And a person who cannot attain even that small union will never attain the union of self and existence. The union of self and existence is an even greater union, a vast union. It is a very small union. But even in this small union, integrity occurs—in a small measure. There is another, vast union where integrity occurs—the union of self and all. That is a greater union, and an eternal union.
If this union occurs, in that moment the person becomes innocent. The mind disappears; thoughts dissolve; Just being,
Just being remains. Breath moves, the heart beats,
Consciousness exists; but there are no thoughts. In lovemaking, a person becomes innocent for a moment.
If you master the art of meeting the man and woman within you, then there is no need to meet the woman outside. But meeting the woman outside is very easy and inexpensive; meeting the woman within is very difficult and arduous. Meeting the woman outside is called enjoyment; meeting the woman within is called yoga. That too is union. Yoga itself means union.
This is a very interesting thing. People understand enjoyment to mean union, and yoga to mean renunciation. Enjoyment is also union, yoga is also union. Enjoyment is to meet outside, yoga is to meet within. Both are union. And the essence of both is lovemaking. If the man and woman within me, who are within me, meet within me, then I have no need for the woman outside and the man outside. And only the person in whom the inner woman and man unite can attain celibacy. No one attains celibacy by reducing their food intake; nor does one attain celibacy by running away from a woman or a man. Neither by closing one's eyes, nor by becoming like Surdas—by plucking out one's eyes—can one attain celibacy. The only way to attain celibacy is to unite the inner woman and man.
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