In Sri Aurobindo's writings, he very much stresses the need for sexual discipline and Brahmacharya during the student phase of life, and I remember reading Schopenhauer on how the childlike curiosity, inquiry and energy get directed towards sexual mating with the coming of puberty.😯🦋✨💖[...]

So what is this paradoxical wisdom of Nature in that she plants in you puberty and beastly hormonal rage just at the very same time when we need to direct all our energy towards cultivating our mental faculties, and she gives you these downward pulling erotic urges and forces…

Nature has created this world in a many-tiered way. The animal plan is its beginning, the animal humanity and the higher humanity are the middle, but the godlike humanity and the divinised superhumanity is its culmination. All these exist simultaneously within us. The animal as our past burden, the human struggling as the animal but with certain godlike impulses is our present and, the godlike superhumanity is our aspiration and hope. We have to choose and progress, a law of evolution unique to mankind. In the beginning, during childhood and adolescence, the animal past is strong, but as we grow and progress, at least in those ready and destined, the godlike begins to emerge and rides over the animal and rewrites the human story.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

Is it just a coincidence that Sri Krishna was the de facto ruler of Dwarka and Sri Aurobindo started his work as the de facto ruler of Gujarat? I feel as if it indicates that he has started his work from where Sri Krishna left. 🦚🪷🍃🌄

March 14, 2026

There are quite a few other similarities. Sri Krishna was brought up in a foster home away from his parents and so was Sri Aurobindo. Sri Krishna came back and freed his people from the tyranny of Kansa and so did Sri Aurobindo return and gave himself to the work of freeing his motherland from the tyranny of the British. In the ….