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adyasakti
August 2009 
Sexual Energy is Universal According to Tantra
Posted on Aug 9th, 2008
by 
Jeff Mishlove
Jeff Mishlove
Before the creation began the supreme Brahman was steeped in the state of unconsciousness and inactivity, and so he remained until he was in rapture embraced by Adyasakti who on entering into him made him self-conscious and active. Thus Brahman was awakened and a tendency for creation developed in him, but at the basis of it we see the working of the inspiration He drew from His consort Adyasakti.
Besides, the laziness of Brahman, stripped of the influence of his consort, is undoubtedly a fact which supports the predominating importance of sex energy, though the whole thing may be construed as a sexual anthropomorphism.
The sexual libido excited in the conjugal embrace seems to become differentiated in the manifold activities in creation. So the energy pervading the universe is after all ultimately derived from the sex libido. The universe is fundamentally the Turiya Brahman attached to Adyasakti. Thus the sex libido is at the root of all energy manifested in the universe.
The conception of libido, according to the Tantras, exactly corresponds to that of Freud who interprets it entirely in terms of the sex-energy, but the Tantric conception is far greater in quantitative magnitude of value and relatively wider in application. Tantric libido lies embracing the whole universe and is to be regarded as being its fundamental principle.
According to the Tantras, human nature, in respect of function as well as structure, has come to be what it is from the ultimate source of Brahman attached to Adyasakti.
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NOTE: Normally, information about an esoteric tradition such as tantra cannot be found in western psychology journals. Furthermore, scholarly research on tantra is consistently highly critical of contemporary, popular interpretations. The information presented above was derived from a paper published by K. C. Mukherjee called "Sex in Tantras" in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1926, Apr, Vol 21(1), 65-74.
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