Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3. 1936-37

Fragment ID: 18244

1936-37

Is there no physical or psychological way of preventing the semen from being thrown out during sleep?

There is a way, if one can succeed in it – all don’t. It is to put a strong will as concrete as possible (like putting a line or current of force) on the sex-organ not to have emission – this force or will is put every night before going to sleep. Some have succeeded in that way. But if one has a great activity of sex imaginations in the waking state, then it is difficult or may be so to control at night. Another thing is to accustom oneself by a will in the subconscient to wake before the emission comes.