India - the Mother

November 3, 1931

(From a letter.)

What you have described is pretty much the state of the whole world: disorder, confusion, wastage and misery.

It is no use lamenting, however, saying, "Where are we heading!" The final collapse, the general bankruptcy seems obiious enough ... unless ... There is always an "unless" in the history of the earth; and always, when confusion and destruction seem to have reached their climax, something happens and a new balance is established which extends for a few more centuries the life of declining civilizations and human societies in delirium.

... Oh, the horror of falsehood spread everywhere on earth, ruling the world with its law of darkness! I believe its reign has lasted long enough; this is the master we must now refuse to serve. That is the great, the only remedy.

Some Answers from the Mother: 3 November 1931