According to Osho, during prolonged, relaxed intercourse the woman (negative pole) and man (positive pole) close an energetic circuit; a luminous field may encircle them. This circuit fuses partners into one flow, shifting sex from discharge to digestion/absorption, quieting the mind. It integrates the first four bodies—physical, etheric/vital, astral/emotional and mental—bringing satiation, oneness, and lengthening the interval before desire returns.
If lovers stay calmly connected long enough, their energies link into one glowing loop that nourishes and calms them instead of just dumping energy fast.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, in one discourse you said that during prolonged lovemaking a halo of light is formed between woman and man. What is this, how is it formed, and what is its use? Kindly answer these questions on the basis of the electrical differences of the first four bodies. What is the form of the above phenomenon in solitary meditation?
For the householder, deep sexual fulfillment is sexual freedom This state gives very deep contentment. In this sense I spoke. It has great utility for yoga, great utility for the seeker. If a seeker can have such a union available, his need for sex becomes very small. And for as many days as the need for sex is absent, his inner journey becomes that much easier. Once the inner journey begins and lovemaking with the inner woman starts, then the outer woman becomes pointless and the outer man becomes pointless. For the householder, this is what brahmacharya (celibacy) can mean. Do you follow? For the householder, brahmacharya can mean that his lovemaking is so fulfilling that a span of years opens in which the moments of celibacy appear. And once even a single such span opens and the inner journey begins, the outer need dissolves. I am speaking of the…
Question: IN ONE OF YOUR DISCOURSES YOU HAD SAID THAT A PROLONGED INTERCOURSE LEADS TO THE FORMATION OF AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE WOMAN. WHAT IS THIS CIRCUIT, HOW IS IT FORMED AND WHAT ARE ITS USES IN RELATION TO THE FIRST FOUR BODIES? ALSO, INSOFAR AS MEDITATION ALONE IS CONCERNED, WHAT IS THE FORM OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED HAPPENING? As I said before, woman is half and so is man. Both are energies, both are electricity. The woman is the negative pole, the man the positive pole. Whenever the negative and positive poles of electricity meet and form a circuit light is created. This light is of various kinds: it may not be visible at all, it may be visible only sometimes, or it may be visible to some and invisible to others. But a circuit is formed all the same.
But, no matter what the astronomical figure may be, it is mathematically possible to calculate the difference, because both are within the range of human cognition; the difference can be ascertained. But it is impossible to assess the differential between the ecstasy of orgasm and the eternal bliss of samadhi. The sexual meeting of two temporal beings is frantic; in uniting with the Universal one loses oneself like a drop in the ocean. There is no way to compare them, no unit to measure the magnitude of this union. Would one hanker after sex after touching this bliss? Would one even think of this fleeting pleasure after one has attained the eternal ocean? A glimpse of the eternal convinces man that sensual pleasure is meaningless, that by contrast it is madness.
Osho, in one discourse you said that during prolonged lovemaking a halo of light is formed between woman and man. What is this, how is it formed, and what is its use? Kindly answer these questions on the basis of the electrical differences of the first four bodies. What is the form of the above phenomenon in solitary meditation?
For the householder, deep sexual fulfillment is sexual freedom This state gives very deep contentment. In this sense I spoke. It has great utility for yoga, great utility for the seeker. If a seeker can have such a union available, his need for sex becomes very small. And for as many days as the need for sex is absent, his inner journey becomes that much easier. Once the inner journey begins and lovemaking with the inner woman starts, then the outer woman becomes pointless and the outer man becomes pointless. For the householder, this is what brahmacharya (celibacy) can mean. Do you follow? For the householder, brahmacharya can mean that his lovemaking is so fulfilling that a span of years opens in which the moments of celibacy appear. And once even a single such span opens and the inner journey begins, the outer need dissolves. I am speaking of the…