Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

Undated

How is that? Yoga does not bring abnormal attacks of sexuality – the attacks are there in life itself, but in the ordinary consciousness they are not felt as attacks but as normal movements to which there is no fundamental resistance – only. if any, some social or moral control. The same attacks come to the sadhak because something of the old consciousness sticks – if they seem abnormal, it is only because they are not normal to the new consciousness, and there is a struggle – it is not because they are stronger than before. At that rate – if what you said in your account is correct – we shall have to conclude that the ordinary man is pure or at least normal, but Yoga makes him abnormally sexual!!