Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh

17 February 1937

Prithwi Singh,

You write as if what is going on in Europe⁴⁵ 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,⁴⁶ but where is that happening? None of the warring parties incarnates either.

Sri Aurobindo