Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

25 August 1940

Purani: Baudoin is speaking like Hitler.

Sri Aurobindo: How?

Purani: He says Britain is continuing the war and will bring ruin on the world because of it. As Hitler says, “I don’t see why the war should go on.” (Laughter)

Nirodbaran: Baudoin says it would have been cowardly and derogatory to leave France and fight Germany from the colonies.

Sri Aurobindo: It is cowardice to fight but heroism to surrender. He is another scoundrel and swindler like Laval. Many of these people had their money deposited in Germany before the war and when the war broke out Hitler stopped all payments except to these people in order to keep them in his hands.