The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s7.t2.7

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Mithuna as symbol of Mokṣa, ultimate release, means a union, like that of the Fire and its burning power, which is inseparable from, and in, the Fire from the beginning. Mithuna as practised and beheld by the Sādhaka is a re-union, for in the beginning the Puruṣa, the Essence, was “like a man and a woman in close embrace. It desired a second. Himself the Puruṣa divided into two. So were born man and wife. He united himself to her” (‘Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad’, I. 4. 1-4).¹⁵⁴