Ananda in this Floating World

Here I go and I don't know why, I spin so ceaselessly, 'til I lose my sense of gravity...  
Patti Smith,  Dancing Barefoot


Sometimes I'm dancing on air, but i get scared. 
 Jagger / Richards,  Can Your Hear the Music


Ananda.    This is a word worth exploring.   Sat/cit/ananda.  existence/consciousness/bliss.  This is described as the subjective experience of the supreme soul,  the Atman, God, which can be achieved by seers in a meditative state.   But ananda is also one objects of the the karmendriyas, the fundamental organs of action according to the Samkhya philosophy that is the basis of yoga.   The karmendriyas are 5.   mouth , hands, legs, anus, and sex organs.  And ananda is what you do with the sex organs.   what Alex  in Clockwork Orange  called  "the old in and out".    So the same word is used for orgasm and the subjective experience of the divine.  
It wasn't long ago,  I wrote about a sexual religious experience so these things matters have been on my mind this summer.   
The week coming promises to be a workshop on Ananda in all its manifestations.   This weekend I am going to a BDSM weekend long event with a dear friend.  Then I am going directly to an ashram for a week of meditation and as it happens a week of studying the Samkhya philosophy.  
The weekend event will include a tea, for which I will have some lovely accessories my Lady friend put together.  So it will be not Tea and Sympathy, but Tea and eat your hearts out you drab sissies!  I am however on the hot seat as my Lady friend requested that I provide a surprise to spice the event up.  Surprises are not something I do well, so I m still mulling over the possibilities.   I have been practicing a little High Protocol service which I will give her as an option.  There is also an age play pageant.   I know she enjoys age play, so I may enter.  At any rate, I think the weekend will offer an opportunity for a fun blog post.  ( I can perhaps surprise her with that)  after I return from the ashram, unless of course i enter the satcitananda of  the uncreated Brahman, in which case the rest of you are on your own.