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Swādhisthāna—Source of Creative Potential
ing together now because they had known one another before somewhere, and that they would meet yet again in the future.
The teaching evolved out of a cultural perspective very different from today's world, where the pursuit of immediate and temporary gratification too often leads to frustrated expectations and hatred between partners. The teaching acknowledges the presence in all of us of a meaningful, creative power which unites two people even when they are in a state of meditation. There is no hurry, no show, no anxiety about what you should do or how you should do it. You are tranquil.
You will be interested to know that there are many examples of couples who married young and, after creating children, remained together for years without the need for sexual gratification. They enjoyed each other's company and were not at all unhappy because they had not been brainwashed into believing that the whole meaning of marriage is sex. Those who enter married life preoccupied with sexual gratification start hating and blaming one another when they don't get fulfillment. The whole relationship becomes very ugly. Ultimately, the marriage ends in depression and divorce.
However, if two people approach their marriage with the idea that they are meeting to build a life together and complement one another, then sex comes naturally and spontaneously. It is not a prerehearsed event. Sex neither joins the two lives together when it is present, nor breaks them apart when it is absent, because the two lives are connected by a larger feeling of total creativity.
No matter what creative endeavor you attempt, you may
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