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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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