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As for the other point, the right attitude is neither to worry always
about the sex-weakness and be obsessed by its importance so as
to be in constant struggle and depression over it, nor to be too
careless so as to allow it to grow. It is perhaps the most difficult
of all to get rid of entirely; one has to recognise quietly its im-
portance and its difficulty and go quietly and steadily about the
control of it. If some reactions of a slight character remain, it is
not a thing to get disturbed about — only it must not be permitted
to increase so as to disturb the sadhana or get too strong for the
restraining will of the mental and higher vital being.
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It is best not to pay too much attention to this [sex] movement,
but to let it drop off quietly by lack of support and assent from the
mind and the higher vital.
To think too much of sex, even for suppressing it, makes it
worse. You have to open more to positive experience. To spend
all the time struggling with the lower vital is a very slow method.
Detachment is the first step. If you can detach yourself from the
sex suggestions even when having them as you say, then they do
not matter so much as the tamas, inertia etc. which interfere with
your sadhana. They can wait for their final removal hereafter.
CWSA 31: 510-11 Sri Aurobindo

Sex centre Aspiring to be Purified
The awakening of the consciousness to a higher life.
(Spiritual significance and explanation of the flower given by the Mother)

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