India - the Mother

Let us recall Sri Aurobindo's prophetic words of 1916: "The defeat of Germany by her own weapons would not of itself kill the spirit now incarnate in Germany; it may well lead merely to a new incarnation of it in some other race or empire, and the whole battle would then have to be fought over again. So long as the old gods are alive, the breaking or depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate." (The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 320)