Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 9424

Sexual Relations and the Ashram [5]

While looking at pictures of women in magazines, I sometimes feel sexual sensations. Do you want me to avoid looking or to overcome this influence?

You had better get rid of the influence. It won’t do not to be able to look at a woman or a picture of a woman without getting sexual sensations – you must get rid of that.

4 December 1933