Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
3. Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga
Fragment ID: 209
See letter itself (letter ID: 74)
Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh
February 17, 1937
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You write as if what is going on in Europe were a war between the powers of the Light and the powers of Darkness – but that is no more so than during the Great War. It is a fight between two kinds of Ignorance. Our aim is to bring down a higher Truth, but that Truth must be able to live by its own strength and not depend upon the victory of one or other of the forces of the Ignorance. That is the reason why we are not to mix in political or social controversies and struggles; it would simply keep down our endeavour to a lower level and prevent the Truth from descending which is none of these things but has a quite different law and basis. You speak of Brahmatej being overpowered by Kshatratej, but where is that happening? None of the warring parties incarnate either.
1 CWSA, volume 35; Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: Light
2 CWSA, volume 35; Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: this
3 Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. we not
4 CWSA, volume 35; Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: incarnates
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