leave it to its own secrecy until the moment of its action.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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Unwillingness to Write for Newspapers and Magazines [7]
X must not expect the rather portentous article or essay he demands from me. You know I have made it a rule not to make any public pronouncement; the Cripps affair was an exception that remains solitary; for the other things on the war were private letters, not written for publication. I do not propose to change the rule in order to set forth a programme for the Supermind energy to act on if and when it comes down now or fifteen years after.1 Great Powers do not publish beforehand, least of all in a journalistic compilation, their war-plans or even their peace-plans; the Supermind is the greatest of all Powers and we can leave it to its own secrecy until the moment of its action.
14 January 1945
1 Sri Aurobindo was asked to write an article about what the world would be like fifteen years after the supramental descent. – Ed.