Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9441

Tantric Theories and the Ashram [3]

Someone said that if a yogi has his Shakti and if the Shakti demands physical contact the yogi has to fulfil it. Is that correct?

If the sadhak is a left-hand Tantrik or a Vaishnava of the Bengal school, then his theories may have some validity but they have none in this Asram.

Someone else also said that a special, though not sexual, relation can exist between sadhaka and sadhika.

The only relation permissible here is the same as between a sadhak and sadhak or between a sadhika and sadhika – a friendly relation as between followers of the same path of Yoga and children of the Mother.

5 September 1936