Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8546

See letter itself (letter ID: 74)

Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh

February 17, 1937

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The World Situation before World War II [3]

You write as if what is going on in Europe 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.³ 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.

17 February 1937

¹ SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. the Light

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² SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. that

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³ The reference is to the Nationalist and Republican forces, and their Fascist and Communist backers, during the Spanish Civil War. – Ed.

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⁴ Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. we not

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⁵ SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. incarnate

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Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // CWSA.- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.

Other publications:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: Correspondence (1933-1967).- Mysore: Mira Aditi, 1998.- 183 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Forth Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1951.- 652 p.