Implicit in Kama Sutra is an invitation to all lovers to join in the cosmic dance. Whether we’re aware or not, the joining of loving bodies in physical demonstrations of desire is a sacred act. Regardless of the nature of the act, to love physically is to participate in the divine dance. In making love with one another, we weave ourselves into the universe and come part of its integral whole. We help to hold it together.
If that sounds like a big responsibility, it’s because you’ve never approached your sexuality from this standpoint before. When you actually undertake to do so, the whole thing becomes a lot less daunting. It just feels right. That’s because it is.
Your sexuality and living it out in a wholesome, joyful way is part of the divine plan and an important component of cosmic harmony. When the energy that passes between two people is intense and incarnated through acts of physical intimacy, you draw closer to the divine without even understanding that’s the case. The many moments of our life we spend in sexual congress, or in physical intimacy, are moments in which we lift the veil that conceals from us, in our everyday lives, the true nature of the godhead.
We are part of it, and in our sexuality, we are living out our most extravagantly divine natures. This is an awesome thought I’d like readers to take special note of. In fact, there’s an exercise I would encourage you all to try. Take off your clothes. Now, go look at yourself in a full-length mirror. Take the time to really look at yourself, to move your arms and legs, to smile at yourself and to examine the wonder of your beautiful, human body.
There may be some bumps, lumps, zig-zags, and ripples we look at and would prefer not to see. Every one of those presumed imperfections, though, is a wonderful and unique story about the incredibly individual nature of our bodies. We all have these unpredictable, ripply, lumpy, bumpy bodies. They share some common features. But our bodies are also specifically us. The human body is a tale of life and all it entails — the good, the bad, the challenging, and the terrifying. Our bodies are like passports, stamped by our days and years with the experiences we’ve had, the adventures we’ve survived and the imprints of thousands of those who have come before us, making us who we are. We are incredibly complex beings and this is reflected in the wondrous human body.
Looking at your physical self and seeing yourself for what you are is a doorway to seeing others in the same, expansive and wonderstruck way. Your body isn’t a crackerjack box. It’s you. It’s what people see and say, “There’s thingamabob!” It’s your calling card and your way of involving yourself in the day to day life of the world around you. Without it, you’d be a disembodied, amorphous Casper the Friendly Ghost, drifting about unnoticed (or perhaps scaring the living crap out of people). What I’m saying is simple — your body is what makes you human. All of it. Even the parts you don’t particularly care for. Your body is your story.
The first and most important part of loving another person as they are, is loving yourself. When you can behold yourself nude and vulnerable, you’ll be able to see your partner more compassionately, less judgmentally and more appreciatively. Now get ready to put that renewed vision of love to good use as we explore the Kama Sutra’s gifts to sexuality.
Your flesh is what the divine works with. God has no hands but ours. You are an instrument of the divine in the cosmos, working to hold together and uplift the harmonious interplay and balance of the universe. When the two become one, all is whole. When you love, the music of the spheres is heard, as the stuff of Creation is knit together again and sustained. Love is divine and making love as a co-creation of the universe, through every touch, every sigh, and every movement of our bodies together, makes of us god’s partners. Through our sexual natures, we come as close to the divine order in the cosmos as we may, as mere human beings, we become divine.
