Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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Fragment ID: 9442
Tantric Theories and the Ashram [4]
The subtle sex centre awoke after some years of Pranava sadhana. Afterwards I understood what the Tantras meant by the relation between sadhaka and sadhika. The reality behind it is the duality of united Shiva-Shakti. Man’s ordinary life is the wrong way of giving it expression. I am now able to transform this perception into Delight. Is this experience true?
This is not accepted in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga.1 Any such “sublimated” sex relation becomes a subtle but powerful bar to the full realisation and transformation and can derail the sadhana. There is an Ananda behind all things, otherwise they would not exist; but it does not follow that all things must be accepted in their delight-form as a part of the higher life.
1 Written by Sri Aurobindo to one of his secretaries, who replied to the correspondent. – Ed.