Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8440

Passages from Bases of Yoga [6]

In Bases of Yoga, it is said about the sex-movements that they “throw into the atmosphere forces that would block the supramental descent, bringing instead the descent of adverse vital powers” [p. 71]. Is it meant that any kind of sex-movement in the Ashram atmosphere would block the supramental descent? If it were so, the descent would hardly be possible because new sadhaks or temporary visitors may indulge in sex-movements and throw these forces in the atmosphere.

That is not what is said in that passage. What is spoken of is the taking of sex indulgence as a part of the aim and method of the sadhana. It is said that if that were done, the sadhana would bring down vital Forces of a type adverse to the supramental change which would serve to block (stand in the way of) the supramental descent.

1 August 1936