Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Human Relations and the Ashram

Tantric Theories and the Ashram [4]

The subtle sex centre awoke after some years of Pranava sadhana. Afterwards I understood what the Tantras meant by the relation between sadhaka and sadhika. The reality behind it is the duality of united Shiva-Shakti. Man’s ordinary life is the wrong way of giving it expression. I am now able to transform this perception into Delight. Is this experience true?

This is not accepted in Sri Aurobindo’s {{0}}Yoga.[[Written by Sri Aurobindo to one of his secretaries, who replied to the correspondent. — Ed.]] Any such “sublimated” sex relation becomes a subtle but powerful bar to the full realisation and transformation and can derail the sadhana. There is an Ananda behind all things, otherwise they would not exist; but it does not follow that all things must be accepted in their delight-form as a part of the higher life.