The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2053 page)

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acintya bedh
bheda
). The purpose of Sahaj
y
ritual sex is to transform desire (
k
ma
) into pure love (
prema
). Ritual sex was performed with a
parak
ya
woman, unmarried or ‘belonging to another’. As in other
Tantric
sexual rites, semen is not ejaculated but directed ‘upwards’ through the su
um
a
n
to the
sahasr
ra
padma where the bliss of R
dh
and K

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