Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14366

The tired feeling which the people felt after seeing this X is a sign of vampirism, but very often there is no such feeling but there is an after-effect on the whole. The nerves get gradually wrong – what is called the nervous envelope becomes weak or in one way or another the vitality becomes weak or gets into an abnormal condition – excitable and unstable. There are many such ways in which the effect shows itself. Sex-vampirism is a different matter – in sex interchange the normal thing is to give and take, but the sex-vampire eats up the other’s vital and gives nothing or very little.