Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8066

Hitler and his chief lieutenants Goering and Goebbels are certainly vital beings or possessed by vital beings, so you can’t expect common sense from them. The Kaiser, though all-satanical, was a much more human person; these people are hardly human at all. The nineteenth century in Europe was a pre-eminently human era – now the vital world seems to be descending there.

18-9-1936