Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17028
1935
I was sitting on the staircase and quietly reading. There came a sadhika1; she sat a few steps below me. I paid no particular attention to her and continued my reading. But then the sexual thoughts at once began to run about me. They were so strong I could not rid myself of them by mere mental effort. So I had to withdraw within. It was only when I came out that I saw who the woman was. I wonder why this time the thoughts were so obstinately insistent.
Some persons have more sex influence in them than others.
1 A woman-disciple