Question: Can you explain the relationship between love, sex, and spirituality in the awakening process?
Mervyn Brady: There are many levels and obstacles that a person has to overcome on the long journey to find the Holy Grail, or spiritual awakening. We see that even with Sir Lancelot, although he was a great knight full of prowess and possibilities, his weakness in the sexual arena prevented him from finding what he was seeking. When a person is quite a reasonable distance down this road, it is then that sex and love rise to test him. Without preparation or proper instruction, most people would be sidetracked or even stopped dead in their tracks by these powerful forces.
I have seen many fine people spiritually ripening only to be consumed and stopped where they stand by the lower part of the love experience. On the positive side, it is the energy generated by this experience that like for Dante with Beatrice, can propel a person into the higher realms. For most
people, the experience of love invariably awakens the soul and perhaps is what makes the state so desirable. It is because of the arrival of the soul lovers become content with the most simple things, such as a spring day and the sound of birds singing. There is an awareness and an energy generated that is not available to a person in their day to day life. For some people, losing a loved one simultaneously means losing the connection with their inner world. A true philosopher would be a person who seeks within and not without for their missing half. When one finds one's own soul, love in its highest form manifests. It is only when one has experienced this love, that one can truly love others.
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