Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

to Prithwi Singh

Correspondence (1933-1967)

17 February 1937

Sri Aurobindo

Prithwi Singh,¹

You write as if what is going on in Europe² were a war between the powers of Light and the powers of Darkness — but this 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 incarnates either.

Sri Aurobindo
17 February 1937

¹ This letter was published at Vol.22 (No 210) of SABCL

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² The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in which Hitler and Mussolini actively supported the fascist commander Franco against republican forces, while France and Britain remained helpless spectators.

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