Endnotes

PROLOGUE. URDHVARETAS

1. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, 57–58.

2. Bhagavad Gita 7.11, as interpreted by the author.

CHAPTER 1. EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE

1. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, 159.

2. Krishna, Kundalini: Path to Higher Consciousness, 6–7.

3. Sara Davidson, “Ram Dass Has a Son! But Has This Revelation Changed His Conception of Love?” www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-davidson/ram-dass-has-a-son_b_777452.html.

4. India: “Divorce Rate in India,” www.divorcerate.org/divorce-rate-in-india.html; “India Moves to Make it Easier for Couples to Divorce,” www.bbc.co.uk/news/10284416, June 2010; “Divorce Rates of the World,” www.nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/divorce-rates-of-the-world, April 4, 2007, with chart showing India as lowest in the world at 1.1% but rapidly increasing in urban centers. Tibet: T. Zhang, “Marriage and Family Patterns in Tibet,” China Population Today 14, nos. 3–4 (August 1997): 9. Navajo: Jones Payne Group, Inc. “Phase II Housing Needs Assessment and Demographic Analysis,” Navajo People, 2008. United States: “Compare Divorce and Family Laws,” http://divorce-laws.findthebest.com; “Divorce After 50 Grows More Common,” www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/fashion/weddings/divorce-after-50-grows-more-common.html, September 20, 2013; “The Changing American Family,” www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html, November 25, 2013; “Second, Third Marriages: Divorce Rates Explained,” www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/second-third-marriages-divorce-rate_n_1324496.html, March 6, 2012. See also “Marriage, Family, & Stepfamily Statistics,” www.smartstepfamilies.com/view/statistics, March 2013; “Is Serial Monogamy Worth Pursuing?” www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/200810/is-serial-monogamy-worth-pursuing, October 31, 2008.

CHAPTER 2. ENTERING THE MYSTERY

1. Rendered from the ancient yogic text Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 1.40–43.

CHAPTER 3. SHARED-GENDER MYSTERY

1. Buber, I and Thou, 4.

2. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 8.

CHAPTER 4. PURPOSEFUL URDHVARETAS

1. Aurobindo and the Mother, On Love, 10–11.

2. Marty Balin, Crown of Creation album (EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, 1968).

3. Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 83.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., 87.

6. Valerie Simpson and Nickolas Ashford (EMI Music Publishing, 1966).

CHAPTER 5. YOGIC ANATOMY AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ARS EROTICA BODY

1. Vyas Dev, Science of Soul, 225.

2. Mitchell, Bhagavad Gita, 11.3–6.

3. Ramanujan, Speaking of Siva, 168.

4. Dass and Aparna, The Marriage and Family Book, 66.

5. Jnaneshvari, Jnaneshvari, 129, 132–33.

6. Woodroffe, Principles of Tantra, xiii.

7. Money, Love and Love Sickness, 119.

8. Kadloubovsky and Palmer, Writings from the Philokalia, 33

CHAPTER 6. COMMITMENT AND MARRIAGE AS GRIHASTHA MYSTERIES

1. Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 84.

CHAPTER 7. THE PASSIONS AND MYSTERIES OF FERTILITY

1. Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny, Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving, 558.

CHAPTER 10. RELATIONAL WORSHIP

1. George Harrison, “Mystical One” (Umlaut Corporation, 1982).

2. Ramakrishnan, Who Is Meher Baba?, 120.

3. Sovatsky, “Clinical Forms of Love Inspired by Meher Baba’s Mast Work,” 135.

4. Kripalvananda via Joel Feldman, http://tinyurl.com/mzgdjjy, January 4, 2014.

CHAPTER 11. HATHA YOGA AS ARS EROTICA

1. Kripalvananda, Science of Meditation, 171–72.

2. Brooks et al., Meditation Revolution, 36.

CHAPTER 12. SRINGARA RASA

1. Adapted from B. Natarajan’s translation of Thirumoolar’s Thirumandiram.

2. George Harrison, “Here Comes the Sun” (Apple Records, 1969).

3. Liu, “Numinous Father and Holy Mother,” 128.

4. Dass, Sweeper to Saint, 124–39.

CHAPTER 13. BRAHMACHARYA

1. de Nicolás, St. John of the Cross, 103.

2. Kripalvananda, Revealing the Secret, 163.

3. Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 575.

4. Kripalvananda, Guru Prasad.

5. Collins, The Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta, 48.

6. Ibid., 137–38.