INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 105
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The sexual union between two people who love each other is the true sacrament of marriage, the outward and visible sign |of inward and spiritual unity. At the moment of the union, their spirits as well as the physical bodies rise together to a flame of indescribable ecstasy. Sexologists say that it is an experience which seems to have nothing to do with worldly attributes; it is shared alike by rich and poor, by those who are clever and those who are not; it cannot be achieved by will power. Money can¬not buy it. It is one of the most precious gifts that love can bring to marriage. Ellen Key describes it as “harmony between body and soul in relation to love”. According to Havlock Ellis, “it is the natural instinct of dignity and temperance”. When the companion of the lady suggested to her to dismiss from her mind the love which was the cause of all her sorrows when her husband was away, the gentle lady replies that her love towards her husband is such that even when he is indifferent and does whatever he likes without any regard for her, she cannot have peace without seeing him in person. Just as her eyes do not see the point of the brush, when she paints them with colloquium, so also, she says, she forgets all his indifference and disregard.
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