Chapter 54Rejection of the Sex-Impulse from the Various · Sexual Difficulties among Men

In most men the sexual is the strongest of all the impulses of Nature.

* The vital needs something to hook itself on to, but for a sadhak women are obviously the wrong things for it to hook itself on to — it must get hold of the right peg.

* If it [the vital] admires all beautiful things, not women only, without desire — then there would be no harm [in admiring women]. But specially applied to women, it is a relic of the “sex-appeal”.

* It [the sense of one’s own vital charm and power of attraction] is the usual vanity of the lower vital — it is very common. Any man can have an attraction for any woman, and vice versa, when the sex-forces are active, but that attraction is not his, it is the pull of the sex-force.