Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 9422

Sexual Relations and the Ashram [3]

The whole of yesterday I felt a dark power hanging over me. When I asked the Mother if it was the same universal dark power that, through woman, binds the soul to the earth, she replied, “Why woman? Through man as well!” Yes, man as well – but is there not something which makes woman a more convenient, capacious and dangerous tool in its hand?

That is what man thinks; it is his experience. Woman’s experience is that man is the dangerous animal and instrument of all her sufferings and downfalls.

It is not man or woman; it is the Sex-Force which is the dangerous tool in the hands of the Ignorance.

17 September 1932