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No
error can be more perilous than to accept the immixture of
the sexual desire and some kind of subtle satisfaction of
it and look on this as a part of the sadhana. It would be
the most effective way to head straight towards spiritual
downfall and throw into the atmosphere forces that would block
the supramental descent, bringing instead the descent of adverse
vital powers to disseminate disturbance and disaster....
It
is an error too to imagine that, although the physical sexual
action is to be abandoned, yet some inward reproduction of
it is part of the transformation of the sex-centre. The action
of the animal sex-energy in Nature is a device for a particular
purpose in the economy of the material creation in the Ignorance.
But the vital excitement that accompanies it makes the most
favourable opportunity and vibration in the atmosphere for
the inrush of those very vital forces and beings whose whole
business is to prevent the descent of the supramental Light.
The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true
form of divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda in the physical
has a different quality and movement and substance; self-existent
in its essence, its manifestation is dependent only on an
inner union with the Divine.....
Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken
the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence of them would
only repel it and make it withdraw again to the heights from
which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into
the coarseness of the material creation which it alone can
transform....
Seek the divine Love through the only
gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the
psychic being, and cast away the lower vital error .
Sri
Aurobindo Says", Bulletin, August 1965.
The
Mother has already told you the truth about this idea. The
idea that by fully indulging the sex hunger it will be finished
and disappear for ever is a deceptive pretence held out by
the vital to the mind in order to get a sanction for its desire;
it has no other raison d'etre or truth or justification.
If an occasional indulgence keeps the sex desire simmering,
a full indulgence would only sink you in its mire. This hunger
like other hungers does not cease by temporary satiation;
it revives itself after a temporary abeyance and wants again
indulgence. Neither sops nor gorgings are the right treatment
for it. It can only go by a radical psychic rejection or a
full spiritual opening with the increasing descent of a consciousness
that does not want it and has a truer Ananda.
SRI
AUROBINDO, Life-Literature-Yoga, 2ndEd., p.27.
As
to the sexual impulse, for this also you must have no moral
horror or puritanic or ascetic repulsion. This also is a power
of life and while you have to throwaway the present form of
this power (that is the physical act), the force itself has
to be mastered and transformed. It is often strongest in people
with a strong vital nature and this strong vital nature can
be made a great instrument for the physical realisation of
the Divine Life. If the sexual impulse comes, do not be sorry
or troubled but look at it calmly, quiet it down, reject all
wrong suggestions connected with it and wait for the Higher
Consciousness
to transform it into the free force and Ananda.
letter of SRI AUROBINDO, in Mother
India, Oct. 1967.
If
she consents to marry , that would be the best. All these
vital disturbances proceed from suppressed sex-instinct, suppressed
but not rejected and overcome.
A mental acceptance or enthusiasm for the
sadhana is not a sufficient guarantee nor sufficient ground
for calling people, especially young people, to begin it.
Afterwards these vital instincts rise up and there is nothing
sufficient to balance or prevail against them,-only mental
ideas which do not prevail against the instincts, but on the
other hand, also stand in the way of the natural social means
of satisfaction. If she marries now and gets experience of
the human vital life, then thereafter there may be a chance
of her mental aspiration for sadhana turning into the real
thing.
"Sri
Aurobindo Says", in Bulletin.
November 1967.
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