Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Correspondence (1933-1967)

Letter ID: 3

Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh

May 13, 1934

Prithwi Singh

In regard to what you write about sex, it is the normal experience that when it is driven out of the waking consciousness, more or less entirely, it takes refuge in the subconscient vital and finally in the subconscient material and comes up in sleep or else in the moments just after waking when the consciousness is still tamasik and disposed to accept whatever movements come up from the subconscient without resistance or control. In sleep it usually comes up as dreams, but not always – for it is sometimes only a mechanical impulse without the form of dream. In any case what you experience is not due to any badness in the nature or accumulation of past evil, but is the normal course taken in the elimination of the impulse from the nature. There is no ground therefore for discouragement. You have only to get the habit of asserting your will in the moments after sleep and, if possible put a will into the subconscient which will act automatically in sleep as well as in waking to discourage the coming up of the sex impulse whether in the form of dream or any other.

Sri Aurobindo