Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 3

Fragment ID: 14804

There is no how to these things – the sex-impulse exists for its own sake and it uses the person as an instrument and hooks him on to another – whenever it can throw the hook, it throws it and once the connection is there holds on for some time at least. This is the physical vital and subtle physical action – for if it is the gross physical that dominates, there is no choice – any woman will serve the fun. The sensation you feel is physical vital + subtle physical, that is why it is so concrete. Naturally these sensations do not stop by enjoyment – they are recurrent and so long as the pressure lasts they continue. It is only by rejection or by the domination of a contrary force that they cease.