Here are two letters
of Sri Aurobindo written during the second World War, when he had
openly given his full support to the Allies. We are presenting it
merely to show that it is not necessarily spiritually wrong to take
a side. Whether these insights apply to the present situation and
to what extent has to be an individual decision and judgement.
"Some forces
are working for the Divine, some are quite anti-divine in their
aim and purpose.
If the nations or the
governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces
were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of
action as well as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly
they would be invincible, because the divine forces themselves
are invincible. It is the mixture in the outward expression that
gives to the Asura the right to defeat them.
To be a successful
instrument for the Asuric forces is easy, because they take all
the movements of your lower nature and make use of them, so that
you have no spiritual effort to make. On the contrary, if you
are to be a fit instrument of the Divine Force you must make yourself
perfectly pure, since it is only in an integrally divinised instrument
that the Divine Force will have its full power and effect.
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You should not think
of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for
India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself
on earth in the life of humanity, for a Truth that has yet to
realise itself fully and against a darkness and falsehood that
are trying to overwhelm the earth and mankind in the immediate
future. It is the forces behind the battle that have to be seen
and not this or that superficial circumstance. It is no use concentrating
on the defects or mistakes of nations; all have defects and commit
serious mistakes; but what matters is on what side they have ranged
themselves in the struggle. It is a struggle for the liberty of
mankind to develop, for conditions in which men have freedom and
room to think and act according to the light in them and grow
in the Truth, grow in the Spirit.
There cannot be the
slightest doubt that if one side wins, there will be an end of
all such freedom and hope of light and truth and the work that
has to be done will be subjected to conditions which would make
it humanly impossible; there will be a reign of falsehood and
darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human
race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot
yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself
for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger
will have been averted and conditions will have been created in
which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine
Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to
establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause
are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of
the Asura"
- Sri
Aurobindo
