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What is the Sex instinct?

Sex is a Sanskara

Sanskaras are subtle impressions or mental imprints the concept is taught in the yogic tradition. These are thought patterns, habits, or tendencies that are formed through repeated experiences and actions across lifetimes. In the context of the sex instinct, sanskaras can be understood as deeply ingrained patterns of behavior and desire related to reproduction and sexual attraction that is species wide. These impressions influence an individual's thoughts, actions, and experiences in current and future lives, playing a significant role in shaping one's personality, behavioral and instinctual responses.
•Reproduction is a tremendous force of nature that is necessary for life to exist. It takes the form of sex in animal life. Sex is one of animal life's oldest instincts built into the very foundations of life because it was necessary for life to continue. Nature created the sex instinct to ensure that the species survives, for this reason, it is necessary for the instinct to be compelled so strongly in individuals that it is almost irresistible. It also must override all rational thought, caution, and long-term planning to ensure the act is completed. Sex belongs largely to the consciousness of the animal and its instincts, and it takes similar forms in the human being.

•The sex instinct is used to combine animals' traits, genetics, forms, types, and various occult or mental characteristics such as temperament and vitality to create offspring. Though the method is slow, a hidden intelligence guides the sex instinct behind the scenes. To create new forms and types and mix existing ones together. In higher-developed life such as humans, this can be used to blend cultures, races, and types together or for a new blend of types.

•The higher-developed the animal, the longer it takes to gestate, especially those with more advanced cognitive and mental abilities. Nature uses the sex instinct to bond individuals into stable partnerships to create stable family units. During the act of orgasm, partners bond physically through intense interchange of hormones, physical and occult materials. This bond in higher-developed animals such as humans is intended to last for life. If two incompatible partners bond, it is extremely dysfunctional, with long-lasting consequences.

Quotes

"Of course, the sexual impulse is perfectly natural and all men have it. Nature has put it as part of her functioning for the purpose of procreation, so that the race may continue. In the animals it is used for that purpose, but men have departed from Nature and use it for pleasure mainly so it has taken hold of them and harasses them at all times."
- Sri Aurobindo