Muktananda has been roundly criticized for alleged sexual abuse of his students since an article appeared in 1983. Nowadays, there appears to be a "me too" movement where every spiritual teacher that has sex with a student is accused of sexual abuse because of the power differential between the teacher and the student.
Really, the truth is far, far deeper than this.
In Indian tantra, various forms of sex acts were prescribed for spiritual advancement using the stored sexual energy from non-ejaculation during the sex act providing greater spiritual power and insight. Also, the sex act was o used not to humiliate, but to give an ego boost for those who needed to feel love in that way.
But mostly, sex act between an enlightened being that knew how to control and direct spiritual energy or Shakti, was done as an act of Shaktipat through interplay of sex and love that can feel the recipient with intense love, surrender, leading to realization of the Lifeforce in oneself.
Of course, there are other spiritual teachers that engaged in sex with students because they could, as Maezumi Roshi told his own students during their spiritual meetings.
In my own case, I so loved a woman and felt so surrendered to her, and when I saw her in the flesh I just fell to my knees touched her feet and kissed them. I never had sex with her, but I was so deeply into surrender that I was gone, allowing God to enter me so to speak, and I realized the Lifeforce in me as a blinding flash of energy and light which is persistent now for many years. I now live in the Lifeforce because I loved woman and surrender to her. So I imagine that sex between two enlightened beings is the most ecstatic and uplifting experience that one could possibly conceive of.
In any event, there is a close interplay between sexual feelings in the spiritual relationship and the experience of many spiritual states.
Unfortunately because of that the boat of the subject of sex and spirituality, most teachers make an attempt to hide it for fear of becoming an object of wrath and humiliation.
At this time no teachers are honestly discussing the subject of sex in their students, of sex and enlightenment, except for a few Tantric teachers that are largely unknown.
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