Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II

About Peace

It is only by the growth and establishment of the consciousness of unity that a true and lasting peace can be realised upon earth. All are welcome although the exterior ones have a very limited effect. But the most important, urgent and indispensable of all is a transformation, human consciousness itself, an enlightenment and a conversion in its workings.

Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is one of them.

The main objection to it has always been the possibility of war awkward position in which those who have adopted a double nationality would be in case these two countries were at war. But all those who sincerely want peace must understand that the first indispensable towards it is not to foresee war; any action taking measures in prevision of a possible war is already a step taken towards its outbreak. contrary the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war the more effective the chances towards a stable peace until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility.

(Sri Aurobindo's bust by E. Frankel.)

From the artistic point of view, it is certainly a masterpiece. It is also an inspired work, inspired by an inner contact with Sri Aurobindo with one of his aspects, with one side of his being, the intellect . that of knowledge, the seer.

1) Exhibited now in the Sri Aurobindo Library.

My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth.

But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it — no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they trust my word that they do not say that nothing has truly happened. In addition the exterior circumstances are still harder than they were and the difficulties seem to be cropping up more unsurmountable than ever.

Now that the supramental is there —for of that I am absolutely certaineven if I am the only one upon earth to be aware of it —is it that the mission of this form is ended and that another form is to take up the work in its place? I am putting the question to Thee and ask for an answer — a sign by which I shall know for certain that it is still my work and I must continue in spite of all the contradictions, of all the denials.

Whatever is in the sign, I do not care but it must be obvious.

There is nobody here, even among the best, who is ready to give up all his habits, conveniences and preferences to win the final victory, even if he is to break his neck on the way.

One loses most of the advantage of being here if one is not convinced that I can foresee better the consequences and the results of things and actions.

For those who are afraid of a word.

This is what we mean by "Divine": all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we must make manifest in light and joy, all the unknown and new splendours that are to be realised.

This is destined for all those who are working for the organisation and immediate future of human life upon earth, and who see that the only solution of this problem is the concrete and effective realisation of Human Unity.

At the moment, in the physical consciousness, the heart is with X, the lover, and the spiritual confidence with Y, the Guru.

I do not see very well what I have to do in this tableau if it is not as a Will that puts spokes in the wheels of the cart ... of the truth of the Ego.

I prefer to withdraw and be the impartial and unseen witness.

I am always happy to receive and to help those who wish for harmony and conciliation, and are ready to correct their mistakes and to progress. But I can be of no help to those who throw all the blame on the others for they are inapt to see the truth and to act accordingly.

But it goes without saying that those who are here and are ready to face some difficulties in order to remain here, will always be welcome.

As usual my words have been completely changed and their meaning quite distorted.

I said that this coming year may prove quite-a difficult one.

On the road of the ascending evolution, every one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep climb towards the summits of Truth, to the supreme realisation or turning his back to the peaks the easy descent to the interminable meanders of endless incarnations.

Solution of the economic problem.

Arriving at the synthesis of two problems:

1) adjusting the production to the needs

2) adjusting the needs to the production

For me everything in human life is mixed, nothing is completely good, nothing completely bad. I cannot give my entire and exclusive support to this idea, to one cause or another. The only important thing for me, in action, is Sri Aurobindo's work, automatically my conscious support is with all that helps that work and in proportion of the help. And for the work to be carried on as it must be I need all collaborations and all helps,

I cannot accept only this one or that one and reject the others. I cannot belong to this party or that party. I belong to the Divine alone and my action upon earth is and will always be for the triumph of the Divine, irrespective of all sects and parties.