Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9440

Tantric Theories and the Ashram [2]

Sometimes I get the idea that I should talk and laugh and mix with women and touch them and yet remain free. This alone could be called true conquest.

The idea you speak of is the Tantric idea and very dangerous. It must be so in the end, but it is difficult to do that until one is strong enough in the settled spiritual consciousness. The avoidance is sometimes the only way until the higher consciousness is settled in the vital and vital-physical.

22 October 1934