Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

27 September 1940

Satyendra: It seems Jinnah carried many files with him to his interview with the Viceroy.

Sri Aurobindo: Files? All the speeches he delivered at the Muslim League meetings? (Laughter) He is making most exacting demands.

Purani: The Secretary of State has already answered Gandhi’s conscientious objection to war.

Sri Aurobindo: What did he say?

Purani: He has said that it is Viceroy’s conscientious conviction that India’s interest is also involved in the war and so nothing should interfere with India’s war effort.

In the recent military pact Japan has been given the right to be the leader of Asia.

Sri Aurobindo: Asia? How? What of Italy’s intentions regarding Syria and Palestine?

Purani: I don’t see what the pact means or how Japan is going to profit by it.

Sri Aurobindo: It means nothing. It is like the anti-Comintern pact – implying a “we all hate communism” sort of thing.