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The only truth in that [the saying that "sexual pleasure and Brah-
        mananda are brothers"] is that all intense pleasure goes back at
        its root to Ananda — the pleasure of poetry, music, production
        of all kinds, battle, victory, adventure too — in that sense only
        all are brothers of Brahmananda. But the phrase is absolutely
        inaccurate. We can say that there is a physical Ananda born of
        Brahmananda which is far higher, finer and more intense than
        the sexual, but of which the sexual is a coarse and excited deg-
        radation — that is all.


        Sex-desire and love
            It is not that it is not possible to keep the love pure, but the
        two things [love and sex-desire] are so near each other and have
        been so much twined together in the animal beginnings of the
        race that it is not easy to keep them altogether separate. In the
        pure psychic love there is no trace of the sex-desire, but usually
        the vital affection gets very strongly associated with the psy-
        chic which is then mixed though still not sexual; but the vital
        affection and the vital physical sex-emotion are entirely close to
        each other, so that at any moment or in any given case one may
        awake the other. This becomes very strong when the sex-force
        is strong in an individual as it is in most vitally energetic people.
        To increase always the force of the psychic, to control the sex-
        impulse and turn it into the ojas, to turn the love towards the
        Divine are the true remedies for this difficulty. Seminal force not
        sexually spent can always be turned into ojas.
            When the psychic puts its influence on the vital, the first thing
        you must be careful to avoid is any least mixture of a wrong vital
        movement with the psychic movement. Lust is the perversion or
        degradation which prevents love from establishing its reign; so
        when there is the movement of psychic love in the heart, lust or
        vital desire is the one thing that must not be allowed to come in
        — just as when strength comes down from above, personal ambi-


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