Dear doubting believers,
"This person hit hard on a subject seldom discussed in the so called "spiritual
or religious" circles.I think it's high time we share our concept about
sexuality, marriage, family and spiritual life. Our catechism(?) or Sunday
school classes do not prepare any one for the challenges of family relationship.
Sadly, we don't even offer a premarital course or marriage enrichment programs
in our church. We take things for granted. We need to open up our churches and
arrange for educational sessions/seminars on these areas where issues can be
clarified and discussed at length. "
I have dealt with this topic many times. I am now writing this piece again for
edification. One also can read the archives of the Light of Life site and get my
observations on these topics which I have analyzed biblically and meticulously,
so also 15 of my books. www.lightoflife.com
The real Pandora's Box is wide open to taste the forbidden fruit in this carnal
sex culture, ripening into the female and gay and lesbian priesthood, that is
summarized in Mt.24: 15, the clear sign, the contextual and aftermath
consequences, of the last sign post on the road of the peril of humanity that
open for a wide world of luminosity in a different plane which is set apart for
the redeemed ones. The church that goes hand in hand with the agnostic
profligacy and its bombardments can't be salvaged by any known means. Let me
come into the topic straight because not much room to unlock what we aspire to
put in black and white. The coining of a dictum by the Indian yogis, "Daily
twice, monthly twice and yearly twice" is quite apt here to prove the point.
Clearing the bowel twice daily, having conjugal pleasure twice monthly and
shaving the face and cut the hair twice yearly is the yogic therapy of keeping
one's health because sex is meant to propagate the species, while the nervous
pleasure associated with sexing is only an incentive provided for the couple in
looking after their children bodily and morally till the parents come to their
second childhood. While man is the one who extract `amirtham', ambrosia, from
the ocean of milk, his body, because the permeation of sexuality is in every
cell of the body, woman is the one who receives it for conception that also
allow her to grow physically and mentally in course of time. "Moonnu pettenkilae
muzhu madavu", is another aphorism of the Indian sages. A cow get its bodily
maturity only after giving birth three calves or times that provide more milk
thereafter, so also this applies to the woman whose mammary glands and many
other inner and physical developments take place thereafter. Kala (art), latha
(tendrils), Vanitha (woman) need support for their growth and development. Man
is the only animal that has sexual union once his wife is pregnant, so also
same-sex relationship is uncommon in the animal kingdom. The dove won't have any
mating with any other bird of its kind when its mate dies. This could be the
reason for the Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, meaning that the
Holy Trinity is inseparable and also that baptism, similar to the sacrament of
marriage, is usually only once in a lifetime. Only when our culture which is
worse than the lifestyle of animal kingdom flourishes on earth, the Beast,
Rev.13, Beelzebub, will emerge from the infernal world to rule over us for 7
years.
God created man and woman in such a way that woman need to depend on man for her
inner and physical development. In order to have a successful bedroom culture a
woman has to love, respect and nurture her husband and vice-versa to have a
successful marital life that reproduce children of genetic elites because a
nervous wreck can't perform the sexercising duty of satisfying his wife in the
nuptial life. Hence she has to nurture him physically and mentally with good
protein food and love. Claiming sex equality of a complementing life where
complementarities only are a fact is detrimental for the caring and up keeping
of the society. This is the curse of the apocalyptic society that fight for
equality because of workplace wages and secular laws add the fuel of a class war
between the spouses where love should have been the only language that create a
harmonious blend. When secular and religious education are at loggerheads with
each other, nothing good will come out of our life that fight like cat and dog,
bringing our life to a T junction. If a minority of Orthodox firebrand clergy
that is the true steward of the House of God is supporting the pagan books and
its humanism, we can do nothing but peril in its ashes.
Till yesterday everyone recognized and agreed these wise sayings and moral
lessons as gospels, but the dawn of the doomsday or Kaliyuga has overturned all
good things and reasonable good life that is being implanted by a hellish
culture that has to destroy the remnant of a celestial culture which perpetuated
in this world in our bygone days. What is esoteric is better than the exoteric.
Jesus has asked us to watch the sign of the time.
"The double standard about asexuality has been in the Church for long time.
Typical example is the position of women in the church. It is our inheritance.
Inhibited thinking on sexuality is not a contribution of Indian culture. Even
though marriage is a Sacrament (sacrament is the visible signs of invisible
Grace), bishops are not allowed to receive that sacrament. It is a mystery."
I would be grateful if you can point out the double standard in our teaching
about sexuality in our church. Our stand so far has recognized that church is
Catholic, apostolic, one and holy. If anyone wants to bring in sexual profligacy
into our sanctity, claiming that it is double standard it is wrong. If one
condemns the Pauline and Petrine concept of sexual morality as obscene, we are
dynamiting the cornerstone of apostolic faith that became a global gospel by the
sacrifice of the apostles' lifeblood. The work place feminism and its onslaught
upon the `dove' is equivalent of cutting the taproot of a plant which is growing
on the bank of a stream. Only solution to teach the dissident minority clergy
and its ignorant buffoons is to give `tharka prasangangals, critical and
analytical gospel messages on the pulpit and at religious Conventions by wise
and people who have developed their inner mystical instincts, not by firebrand
religious simpletons and flamboyant charlatans. Don't bring sex into open
because it is fire that penetrates into any religious avenues. Church has enough
educative literature to in its credibility to prove that any extra-marital sex
is suicidal and self-corrosive. Why does st.Paul ask us to have a lifestyle of a
celibate? The sex-energy that we can afford to have is only for a relationship
for twice a month, after using the energy for a `sound mind in a sound body'.
Excess of anything is bad, particularly excess sex and sex profligacy. The sex
energy that if converted to monastic life by self control and righteous life is
the main invisible tool that weaves the white garment of incorruption. The
secret of the development of inner senses is the sex-restraint that makes a
person saintly, provided other virtues are also cultivated in a balanced way. As
man's contributive energy plays an important and dominant fusion in the conjugal
union, a celibate's energy can build higher ladders that climb to the celestial
planes than that of the spinsters'. In other words, his energy is more potent
and active than hers' who is only a recipient, and therefore passive. All the
saints and yogis who could harness their sexual passions and liberate their
souls from the tentacles of the flesh and participate in the celestial heights
are the true miracle workers, marking indelible stamps on the pages of church
and national history. The fire-flamed Mar Ignatius who sat in the lap of Jesus
and receiving the label of sainthood is only one saint, for example. Find out
the fire that engulfed and overcome by Mar Ignatius, the martyr of the church in
either in 107 or 116 AD. It was the fire of the sex. "It is these 144, 000
virgins who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is
these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes", Rev.14: 3-5. Does any other priest
of the Malankara Orthodox church want to know the mystery behind the reason for
not our bishops marrying?

Sex abuses are thorny facts, but have sex equality, defacto relationship,
divorce, dating and other deviations bring any equilibrium in the sexual or
marital lifestyle, other than bringing sexual and social anarchy in our global
technological paradise that witness global sex slavery, sex trade, exponential
divorce rates, and world of carnage that the world has never experienced before:
bloody humanitarian crises, world wars, malnutrition, scarcity of water and what
not. Learn a lesson from the fig tree, signs of the time. "… there are eunuchs
who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who
is able to receive this, let him receive it". This is not said by our idol
Christ, but the ideal Christ.

E.S.John, Australia