Beings Sensual Is Sacred. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Desire sensual is not bad.
Desire acquisitive is bad.
Desire for romance is not bad.
Desire filled with greed is bad.

Desire is the seed of creation.
Desire is the drive of existence.
Without desire man is a robot.
Without desire the life has no life.

Andal and Mirabai fell in love for Krishna.
Rabia and St. Terasa fell in Love for their gods.
They wrote verses filled with ecstasy
And charged with erotic emotion.

Andal in deep love for Krishna begs Him,
"My surging breasts in their ecstasy
Melt and distress my soul. What do
You gain by hiding yourself?

Mirabai: Come to my pavilion, O my king(Krishna) ,
I have spread a bed made of
Delicately selected buds and blossoms
And have arrayed myself in bridal garb

Rabia al Basri pours her love for Him,
"And my beloved is with me always,
For His love I find no substitute
And His love is the test for me among mortal beings."

St Teresa of Avila pours, "If a kiss
Implies peace and friendship, why do not souls Beg of You to ratify it with them?
Grant me this peace with a kiss of Your mouth."

In cosmology of Tantra, ,
Sexuality is explicit
With Lingham and Yoni
As Devine Sex to be worshiped.

The sensual is as much sacred
As any devotion to gods is.
In physical outpouring
Of energy, total surrender takes place.
31.05.2016

Andal of 10th century from South India and Mirabai of 16th century from North India offered themselves as beloved to Krishan, The Vishnu entity
Rabia al Basri from Basra, Iraq in the! 8th century, a female seer.
St Teresa of Avila is Spanish,16th century
Lingham = Phallus; Yoni = Vagina..