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Volume IV - Part 3

Fragment ID: 14957

The mental acceptance of X’s philosophy about sex was the mistake. It may be true that ordinarily mixing with women removes shyness etc.,– though it is not always so, for many people are sex-timid by nature – but that is a means for ordinary life, not Yoga, and in ordinary life marriage is the direct means for getting rid of sex-uneasiness; marriage or else having love affairs with women and satisfying the sex. But that is not the proper means for an Asram and Yoga. In Yoga the proper means is to train the mind and vital to meet women without thought of sex, to look on them as sadhaks and human beings only, not as objects of sexual possession and enjoyment.