Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo

JULY, 1940

21st July, 1940

There was a reference to C. R's article about the necessity of force for maintaining a state.

Disciple : Blunchli in his book called "The State" puts it down as a fundamental principle. Every state is founded on force and President Wilson in his book also maintains, a little apologetically, that all human states are founded on force.

Sri Aurobindo : Of course, so long as man is not too much cowed down or has not evolved beyond his present condition and is too high to use force, force will be indispensable.

Disciple : In the Supramental creation will there be any force?

Sri Aurobindo : No. Because there you are supposed to go beyond the human conditions, but for ordinary human

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purpose the state is bound to employ force. Only there are two typesof institutions, one which employs force pure and simple and another which is based on agreement and force is employed to maintain the agreement. That is the difference between democracy and dictatorship. The weakness of the democracy is that its rule is based on majority and so there will always be a minority that is not satisfied with the conditional things. And if the minority loves the hope of becoming majority it might resort to force.

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