Sri Yukteswar
"Conserve your powers. Be like the capacious ocean, absorbing quietly all the tributary rivers of the senses. Daily renewed sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism. The forceful, activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; don't let the frogs of sense weakness kick you around!"
A true devotee is finally freed from all instinctive compulsions. He transforms his need for human affection into aspiration for God alone- a love solitary because omnipresent."
Eric I do accept the words you have expressed here. However I also have had the experience that various chakras have their individual purpose. To give a for instance; although we as spiritual beings do not care to be trapped in this physical dimension and be victims to it we are influenced take physical actions and keep our body temple in shape and healthy by the physical impulse that is activated by the sacral chakra.
