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... without.... Boys, girls, nothing got by him! Fantastic. 8 He wrote 'The Lord of Nations'.... And I saw him, oh! I saw this Lord of Nations. During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story!... And I knew when they were going to meet (because after all... I never intended to marry him (his family affairs made it necessary), but when we met, I recognized him as an incarnation of the 'Lord of Falsehood'—that is his 'origin' (what he called the 'Lord of Nations'); and in fact, this being has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries. As for Theon, he was.... It was not by choice that I met all the four Asuras —it was... not sure of having enough time to finish it before 'the other one' crushed the earth to a pulp, setting the whole Affair back... centuries. The FIRST thing to be done was stop the action of the Lord of Nations. The Lord of Falsehood.... You don't believe he is going to begin again? ( silence ) X is convinced that it's going to begin again. We are trying. We are trying. Sri Aurobindo ...

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... she said in the Agenda: During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him [the Asura of Falsehood, who called himself The Lord of Nations'] again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story!... And I knew when they were going to meet... and on one ________________________________________________ ¹Sri... not sure of having enough time to finish it before 'the other one' crushed the earth to a pulp, setting the whole Affair back... centuries. The FIRST thing to be done was stop the action of the Lord of Nations.¹ The War ended in 1945, with the victory for the Allies, as Sri Aurobindo had willed. And yet, the difficulties were not over for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. They saw that even though Berlin ...

... room so vast that it seemed to be low, I was leaning against the far wall, and facing me was a window looking outside. On my left a raised throne with several steps, and on the throne sat the Lord of Nations. This I knew although I had not looked at him. To my right at the far end of the immense room, in a kind of alcove lit from above, sat a young woman—a nation. She was a small, dumpy child with... few touches of gold). I knew that I had helped this nation to dress in this way, and to climb the mountain and the tower to come up to the room. She had come to offer herself as a bride to the Lord of Nations, and for this purpose she was to undergo a series of ordeals that the Lord wanted to impose upon her in order to know whether she was worthy of him. These ordeals were the ordeals of Terror. ... of the fight. We were so close to each other that it seemed impossible that we should not touch, and her outstretched finger drew nearer, threatening my breast.. At that precise moment the Lord of Nations, who could see nothing of the tragic battle, stretched out his hand to take something from a small table at his side. This hand—unawares—passed between my opponent and myself. I was then able to ...

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... faithfully. That being whom Hitler took for the Supreme was quite simply an Asura, the one called in occultism 'the Lord of Falsehood,' and he Page 16 proclaimed himself to be 'the Lord of Nations.' He had a resplendent appearance and could pull the wool over anyone's eyes, except one who truly had occult knowledge and could thus see what was there, behind the appearance. He could have deluded... that's how it happened—we knew ALL THE DETAILS. We never told this, of course, but it was perfectly precise. But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japan—he called himself "the Lord of Nations." And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood. And he hasn't been destroyed yet. ...

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... to be amplified. Exponents of evil are being exalted as heroes. Yesterday is long ago, today is a spasm of self-gratification, tomorrow is for afterwards. The Asura of Falsehood, alias the Lord of Nations, knows that his hour has struck. ‘The Asura is unleashing all his fury, just like somebody who expects that he will disappear.’ 8 He has prepared an ideal terrain for himself: colossal problems ...

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... on with those beings? Should they be avoided altogether, or what? Collaboration? Not with them as they are, and not in the world as it is—no. I have told you about my dealings with the Lord of Nations on several occasions—it's that kind of thing. It can hardly be called collaboration! The great ones know (I am not speaking of the multitude of minor beings, but the others; there are millions ...

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... Hitler asserted that Falsehood should govern the world and that it was governing it. And he was very conscious of being the instrument Page 280 of the Asura who had himself called "the Lord of Nations," who is precisely the present, current representation of the Asura of Falsehood (the one who was born "the Lord of Truth"—a lovely story...). That's why Sri Aurobindo clearly and openly took ...

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... one’ [the Asura of Falsehood, “Hitler’s God”] had made a mess of the world, and the whole affair would have been postponed for centuries. This had to be stopped first of all: the action of the Lord of Nations – the Lord of Falsehood.” 25 Hitler, his Nazis and the supporting Fascists of several countries lost the war. Yet the Lord of the Nations is not bound to any country or personality, and ...

... one’ [the Asura of Falsehood behind Hitler] had made a mess of the world, and the whole affair would have been postponed for centuries. That had to be stopped first of all: that action of the Lord of Nations – the Lord of Falsehood.” 13 We find this confirmed in one of Sri Aurobindo’s letters written in those days: “Now in these times of world-crisis when I have to be on guard and concentrated ...

... shadow of the governing force of a non-human being from the Vital World—the World of the Life-Force behind the world of Matter. The Mother calls this horrible being "The Lord of Falsehood—the Lord of Nations", because he tries his best to lead Nations as if he were their Master. He plays havoc in the world—especially in the Assemblies where the serious and important decisions are taken for the worlds' ...

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... become of him. 1 As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted, but he found it disgusting! At times he calls himself the 'Lord of Nations.' It is he who sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won ... This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation ...

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... centuries lost, not just a few years. Entire civilizations to rebuild. No, "one" isn't in favor of that. It's a seething of something very dark, very dark. It reminds me of the words of the "Lord of Nations," the great Asura, when he told me, "I know that my power is drawing to its close, but you may be sure that before disappearing I will destroy everything I can." That's it, that's exactly it ...

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... 226 Lalita (Daulat Pandey) 328-9, 690 Laljibhai Hindocha 684 Page 902 Lenin, Vladimir 142, 198 Leonardo da Vinci 304 Lizelle Raymond 321, 419 Lord of Falsehood, The (The Lord of Nations) see in The Mother - (3) Madanlal Himatsingka 816 Madhav P. Pandit 257, 321, 596, 691, 707-8, 815-6 Magre, Maurice 63, 369-70 Mahabharata 389, 577 Mahavira 180, 317 Maitland ...

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... "annulled himself in the Supreme." That leaves two. In occultism one of them is designated as the ' Lord of Death' and the other as the 'Lord of Falsehood' —he, however, proclaims himself the 'Lord of Nations.' Frankly speaking, nations are puppets in his hands. "Effectively, it's he who has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries," said Mother. In any case, before ...

... the ground, he drivelled, bit the carpet, it was frightful, the state he was in. The people around him knew it. Well, that being is the "Lord of the Nations". And it is not even the Lord of the Nations in its origin, it is an emanation of the Lord of the Nations, and a very powerful emanation. If it chooses to disappear, would that be a loss of power for the Divine? What? What are you saying... Historically, he was the inspirer of certain heads of State, and he proclaims himself the Lord of the Nations because it is he who governs the peoples. He is evidently, at the source, the supreme organiser of these last two wars. It was on that occasion that he manifested himself as the Lord of the Nations. And he declared, besides, that he would never be converted. And he knows that his end will... greatest harm is the "Lord of Falsehood". He it is indeed who is the biggest obstacle in the universe, this constant negation of the truth. And he has a very strong hold on the terrestrial world, on the material world. Besides, here (on the earth), those who see him, see him as an Page 375 absolutely marvellous, splendid being. He entitles himself the "Lord of the Nations", and he appears ...

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... personally, we would not have been assured of the time necessary to finish it before the other one [i.e. the Lord of the Nations] had made a mess of the earth – which would have put back the whole undertaking for centuries. That had to be stopped first: that action of the Lord of the Nations.” 1175 The one thousand pages of the talks with Sri Aurobindo noted down in the first months of the war –... and of the importance of the times in which he lived as one of the great changes in the destiny of humanity. It was his pride to be the chosen delegate of a being which considered itself the Lord of the Nations, Master of the Earth. He found his strength and guidance in accepting to realize the evil that would take humanity back to a former, lower phase of its evolution. Only this Power behind him explains... tragedy, and many allusions in their writings or conversations confirm this. On 15 August 1945, Sri Aurobindo’s birthday again, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, for the first time in history addressing the nation directly, broadcast a message declaring the unconditional capitulation of his country, thus bringing the Second World War to an end. India will become independent in 1947, on the stroke of midnight ...

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... Richard finishes this grandiloquent exhortation to Japan speaking of ‘the Lord of the Nations.’ ‘… It is the voice of the Lord of thy work. He will accomplish this work with thee, but he can also accomplish it without thee. To the Lord of the Nations who today tills the Earth to found there the Kingdom of his Justice, what nation could long offer resistance? … I saw, I saw thy soul. It was prostrated... was looking to the world of men and nations from the upper room of a small wood-and-paper house, frozen under the snow, listening in the silence of this retreat to the secret words of my Lord – the Lord of the Nations … Through its fallible words the infallible voice may be heard of Him “who rules the nations with a rod of iron” – the Lord of the Yoga of the Nations.’ 36 (Once more one is reminded... the command, and the promise, the sword of Victories, and the crown of the Future.’ We know who the ‘Lord of the Nations’ is: he is one of the four great Asuras whose actual name is Lord of Falsehood, and of whom Paul Richard was an emanation. The Mother would say that the ‘Lord of the Nations’ bluntly refused to collaborate in the transformation of the world, and that, on the contrary, he promised ...

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... inspirations which afterwards he carried out very faithfully. This being, which Hitler took for the Supreme, was quite simply an asura , the one who is called ‘the Lord of Falsehood’ in occultism, and who has proclaimed himself ‘the Lord of the Nations’. His appearance was resplendent, he could mislead anybody except those who had the real occult knowledge and could see what was there behind the appearance... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God The Four Asuras “When we say that Hitler is possessed by a vital power, it is a statement of fact, not a moral judgement. His being possessed is clear from what he does and the way he does it”, said Sri Aurobindo in January 1939. He confirmed this repeatedly: “One can... wanted to know something from that being, he went to his villa [on the Obersalzberg] to meditate. There he really made an intense appeal to what he called his god, his supreme god, who was the ‘Lord of the Nations’ … Of course [that being] did not appear physically. Hitler was a medium, he ‘saw’, he had a certain power of clairvoyance. And it was at such times that he had his fits … The people in his entourage ...

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... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God More Friends Observing the origins of National Socialism along the line followed in our story, one discerns two distinct groups among Hitler’s paladins: the likes of Hess, Rosenberg, Streicher, Dinter, Göring, Röhm, Frank, Esser, Gürtner and Frick; and the likes of Himmler... should have put Hitler in contact with his main spirit who called himself Segensbringer, literally meaning “bringer of blessings”. If true, this spirit should have been the same as Hitler’s Lord of the Nations, for it is improbable that the latter would have suffered another paranormal entity to exert an influence over his choice subject. “Dinter’s influence upon Hitler, because of his spiritist foundation... been his own man from the time he began to take his distance from Eckart, somewhere in 1923. And he was his own man because he had a direct contact with the highest inspiration, his god: the Lord of the Nations. Hess always protected Karl Haushofer and his son Albrecht, dearer to him than his own relatives, even though the Haushofers belonged in the Jewish camp. Both were honoured with high educational ...

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... perverted consciousness as true knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things.” 990 It was this Power, the Lord of Falsehood who calls himself “the Lord of the Nations”, by whom Hitler was possessed. At the time the nations were undergoing a decisive change towards a new, higher consciousness of truth and harmony, this asuric Power fought with all its might to conserve... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God Fallen Angels For centuries “the devil” was one of the most feared presences in European civilization. Learned studies describe how this anti-divine being from the nether worlds originated in Chaldean Mesopotamia. The European imagination represented it as a repulsive ...

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... from incarnating themselves in their essence, for by so doing they would be subjected to the laws of the evolution. Even the Asura who possessed Hitler was not the essential Lord of the Nations. It was ‘not the Lord of the Nations in his origin but an emanation of him, a very powerful one.’ 7 ‘Hitler was a medium, a first rate medium. 92 He has become possessed during spiritistic seances. It... Sri Aurobindo in January 1939. Who was the ‘spirit’ or ‘power’ by whom Hitler was possessed? He is already known to us as the Lord of Falsehood, one of the four great Asuras from the drama at the beginning of the manifestation. ‘He calls himself the Lord of the Nations. It is he who initiates all wars … We talk to each other. Over and above all that we are in contact with each other … After all... emanation of the Asura of Death and Paul Richard of the Asura of Falsehood. As Sri Aurobindo himself remarked, Paul Richard has even written an unpublished book entitled Le Seigneur des Nations (The Lord of the Nations), in which he accurately expounded the aim and methods of that Being. The Mother did everything possible to convert Richard; this was the reason why she had married him and the cause of ...

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... 15th happens to be the birthday of Sri Aurobindo . Page 263 being has often come here to see what was being done. Did you read Richard's book "The Lord of the Nations"? Disciple : No. I read only "To the nation". Sri Aurobindo : The book was never published, but he wrote it at a time when he was in communication with that being. Disciple : Most of these ...

... SRI AUROBINDO ( laughing ): Of course. PURANI: Is it only one Being or a troop? SRI AUROBINDO: There are more than one, but this is a very powerful Being. Have you read Paul Richard's Lord of the Nations ? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: I believe it was not published. He was in communion with this Being and the plans and methods he has written of in the book are the same as those carried out ...

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... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God A Charmed Life Hitler regularly visited the widow of his first favourite architect, Paul Troost. She asked him one day why he cared so little about his personal security. His answer was that he was following “his inner voice” which had told him that he was destined to... increased his self-confidence immensely. After the ordeals of the first years and several sensational escapes from death, he felt himself more than ever an exceptional figure, one who is protected by the Lord himself – a conviction strengthened by the fact that his apparent invulnerability provided him with a kind of halo among his comrades: “If Hitler is present nothing will happen.” 994 When the police ...

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... the Government no longer thinks it necessary to avoid wounding our tenderest feelings or even to keep up appearances? Verily, a nation gets precisely the kind of treatment it deserves; and it appears that in the opinion of Mr. Hare—so far tacitly endorsed by Lord Minto—a nation of weeping and shrieking women as the Bengalis are regarded by their rulers, deserves only to be trampled underfoot. And recent... e and all these things will be added unto you. But persist in your foolish moderation, your unseasonable and unreasonable prudence, and another fifty years will find you more degraded than ever, a nation of Greeks with polished intellects and debased souls, body and soul helplessly at the mercy of alien masters. The Bengalee in these fiery paragraphs denounces for the moment prudence and moderation ...

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... God, who was the Lord of the Nations … It was a being that appeared to him in a silver armour, with a silver helmet and a golden aigrette. It was magnificent. And [it appeared] in a light so dazzling that the eyes could hardly see and bear that blaze. It was on such occasions that [Hitler] had his fits … That being is the “Lord of the Nations.” And it is not even the Lord of the Nations in his origin... two, even three or four pranams to the Mother and the Master, who remained glued to one place throughout the ordeal.’ 19 ‘The Lord of the Nations’ 91 We feel that not only is this a battle waged in just self-defence and in defence of the nations threatened with the world-domination of Germany and the Nazi system of life, but that it is a defence of civilization and its highest... was Hitler’s villa Berghof on the Obersalzberg at Berchtesgaden, in the Alps, called by his biographer John Toland ‘Hitler’s place of inspiration.’ Hitler was a tool of the ‘Lord of the Nations,’ who, in fact, is the Lord of Falsehood. This Asura, whom the Mother failed to convert in the person of Paul Richard, is already known to us. The important role he played throughout her life and that of Sri ...

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... fortunes in France, Sri Aurobindo said to his disciples that the Asuric Being with whom Hitler was in contact, the 'Lord of the Nations', was the same with whom Paul Richard too had established a communion much earlier, and under whose influence he had written the book, The Lord of the Nations: ... the plans and methods he has written of in the book are the same as those carried out now [by Hitler]... n that is aimed at, and already in Germany Hitler has done it .... 19 Again, in her talk to the children on 8 March 1951, the Mother said that it was occultism's 'Lord of Falsehood' who proclaimed himself the 'Lord of the Nations', and guided Hitler in his seemingly uncanny decisions. 20 On 10 June 1953, the Mother returned to this subject and referred to this Being and his spiritually destructive... suffered as a necessary evil, Falsehood has grown vast new attractions: He has taken up a very, very important position in the world, because people who don't know things call him "Lord of the Nations" .... That Lord of Falsehood has truly a lot of influence. This is what catches you with a contagion as strong as that of contagious diseases. 21 From all these references and cross-references ...

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... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God A Friend In documentary films of the Nuremberg NSDAP congresses, one can still see the Führer’s deputy standing at attention on the rostrum high above the smartly lined up blocks of uniformed Germans, then suddenly turn to his left, raise his arm stiffly in salute to ...

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... life since her birth and who, according to her own report, had actually been born at the same time. Another was the Lord of Falsehood who calls himself the Lord of the Nations; he had assured her that he would cause all possible havoc until she had destroyed him. The “Lord of the Nations” has been the origin of the great wars and all evil in the past century; he was the being by whom Hitler was possessed... Mother’s Agenda III , 12.6.1962. × See the chapter “The Lord of the Nations” in Beyond Man. × Words of the Mother, CWM 15, p. 408. ... longer in my body. I have left it for the Lord to take care of it, to decide if it is to have the Supramental or not. I know and I have said also that now is the last fight. If the purpose for which this body is alive is to be fulfilled, that is to say, the first steps taken towards the Supramental transformation, then it will continue today. That is the Lord’s decision. I am not even asking what he ...

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... concerned with the earth, the asuric beings, the greatest of the asuras who is still busy with the earth at present, who is the asura of falsehood and calls himself the "Lord of the Nations"—he has taken a beautiful name, he is Lord of the Nations—it is he, wherever there is something going wrong, you may be sure it is he or a representative of his who is there. It is also perfectly sure that very soon his ...

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... inspirations which he carried out later very faithfully. This being which Hitler took for the Supreme was quite plainly an Asura, one who is called the "Lord Page 185 of Falsehood" in occultism, but who proclaimed himself the "Lord of the Nations". He had a shining appearance, he could mislead anybody except one who really had occult knowledge and could see what was there behind the appearance... first one has been converted, another is dissolved into its origin. Two are still living and these two are more ferocious than the others. One is known in occultism as the "Lord of Falsehood" (I have told you this) the other is the "Lord of Death". And as long as these two beings exist, there will be difficulties. Page 188 ... not at all tied to a single physical presence. The being in question could very well possess Hitler and at the same time influence many others. Hitler was got rid of because he had behind him a whole nation and a physical power, and if he had succeeded it would have been a disaster for humanity, but there was no deluding oneself about it; it was not sufficient to get rid of him in order to get rid of ...

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... manifestations, and the road of the movement cannot be cleared by dagger or pistol, but by the conquest of the street. We must teach Marxism that the future lord of the street is National Socialism, just as one day it will be the lord of the nation.” 180 And so it was that the Sturmabteilung (literally “attack section”), SA for short, came into being. At first these desperados were recruited under ...

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... So he has put it off till another time. As for the other, he refuses to try. He has taken up a very, very important position in the world, because people who don't know things call him "Lord of the Nations". In fact, I was speaking a while ago about the forces which govern the world and don't want to give up their rule at all. They are perfectly satisfied with it—it is not that he does not know... long as they find somewhere upon earth a human consciousness ready to respond to their influence, they will remain. So you can imagine the problem! Now it is not through individuals, it is through nations that they exert their influence. Which are the two forces that are already converted? Do you know the four Asuras? No. I don't know them. Do you know what the origin of these four Asuras... things would be much more difficult. Perhaps it is so just because it is a law of equilibrium that governs the world. It is in order to lessen the strength of their influence. But still... That Lord of Falsehood has truly a lot of influence. This is what catches you with a contagion as strong as that of contagious diseases. Stronger still! Sweet Mother, did not Falsehood try to incarnate? ...

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... share the secret of the Atom bomb with her former Allies, Russia was making frantic attempts to make bombs on its own. Hypocrisy sat entrenched in politics and diplomacy, and the Lord of Falsehood, the Lord of the Nations, stalked imperiously abroad as of old. Millions had died, millions had been maimed, millions had been impoverished - all because of the War. Millions of young men had sacrificed... sacrificed their lives to make the victory over the Axis Powers possible. And yet, when the victory came, the double-dealing diplomats, the rapacious empire-builders, the creatures of the Lord of the Nations - the apes of perversion and greed - were taking over. The Mother's occult vision could clearly see the political configuration ahead, and hence this Prayer of 1946 out of the depths of her being. ... meant by "the soul of India"? Has a nation - a human aggregate inhabiting a seemingly arbitrary geographical area - a soul of its own? As if answering these doubts, Nolini explained in an editorial that he wrote in August, based on one of the talks by the Mother: A nation is a living personality; it has a soul, even like a human individual. The soul of a nation is also a psychic being, that is ...

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... Hitler and His God Hitler and His God 15. “The Lord of the Nations” Hitler and his God Convergences (continued) During the Red revolution in Bavaria, the legal social-democratic Hoffmann government sought refuge in the town of Bamberg and remained there for some time even after Munich had been liberated in May 1919. This meant that the real authority in ...

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... the nations. I am raising up this nation to send forth my word. This is the Sanatana Dharma, this is the eternal religion which you did not really know before, but which I have now revealed to you. The agnostic and the sceptic in you have been answered, for I have given you proofs within and without you, physical and subjective, which have satisfied you. When you go forth, speak to your nation always... message. I remember the speech he made here. It was a speech not so much political as religious in its bearing and intention. He spoke of his realisation in jail, of God within us all, of the Lord within the nation, and in his subsequent speeches also he spoke of a greater than ordinary force in the movement and a greater than ordinary purpose before it. Now I also meet you again, I also come out of jail... to me a saint, a peasant of my nation who did not know how to read and write, an alleged dacoit sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment, one of those whom we look down upon in our Pharisaical pride of class as chhotalok . Once more He spoke to me and said, "Behold the people among whom I have sent you to do a little of my work. This is the nature of the nation I am raising up and the reason ...

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... time to finish it before “the other one” had made a mess of the world, and the whole affair would have been postponed for centuries. That had to be stopped first of all: that action of the Lord of the Nations — the Lord of Falsehood.’ 13 With these words, the Mother put Sri Aurobindo’s accident in perspective. The black forces were running amuck at the time. In 1936, Hitler’s troops had entered ...

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... tense opposition of the two big world blocks. It was the end of the colonial era, and the Mother had great hope that the two imperialistic superpowers would look for ‘approachment’. But the Lord of the Nations would not let himself be dethroned that easily. The Mother called the murder of President Kennedy an occult assassination. ‘The murder of Kennedy has disturbed a lot of things from the standpoint... been Satprem’s guru, Panditji, wrote to the Mother to announce that a new world war and a global catastrophe had been revealed to him. The Mother knew that the Asura of Falsehood, alias the Lord of the Nations, was doing his utmost to bring about an apocalyptic destruction. According to the tantric yogi, the Indo-Chinese War would be the occasion that would initiate the catastrophe. The Mother applied... whomever could stand it, she gave un bain de Seigneur. How to translate this — a bath in the Lord? An immersion in the Lord? She saw the persons in front of her as her very own self and she put the soul in them directly into contact with their true, their divine Being, with the One she called the Lord, present in everything but thickly veiled. She took away as many of those veils as the inner being ...

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... from him inspirations which he carried out later very faithfully. This being which Hitler took for the Supreme was quite plainly an Asura, one who is called the “Lord of Falsehood” in occultism, but who proclaimed himself the “Lord of the Nations”. He had a shining appearance, he could mislead anybody except one who really had occult knowledge and could see what was there behind the appearance. He would ...

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... carry to its climax the light of a more than human consciousness that India throughout her history has sought to manifest." 11 This concept of double citizenship was a challenge to the "Lord of the Nations", the Asuric being who receives the ready homage of all rabid 'national' egoisms. By expressing her wish for 'double citizenship', the Mother planted a potent seed in the human consciousness... * The de jure merger was effected on 16 August 1962, and is since being celebrated by the Government of Pondicherry as the official Merger Day. Page 572 he reveals that all the nations are essentially one and meant to express the Divine Unity upon earth through an organised and harmonious diversity. 10 Commenting on the Mother's declaration, K. D. Sethna wrote: "Here is a flaming... received clearer definition and fuller formulation in her thinking aloud on her great Dream of the Life Divine being actually lived upon the earth: There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place ...

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... Mother knew exactly what Vital Being was egging Hitler on. She has dubbed him "The Lord of Falsehood", a Rakshasa and Asura in one, as it were, who arrogates to himself the title: "The Lord of the Nations." Finding Hitler going from strength to strength, she resolved to imitate the special form in which the Lord of Falsehood always appeared to him at his secret headquarters in the Bavarian Alps... the same flashing presence by the "sovereign Voice". His resolve to unleash a sudden onslaught on his former partner was unbreakably set. The Mother, on her way back from him, met the real Lord of Falsehood proceeding; towards the Fuhrer's "bunk" at Berchtesgaden. He was astonished to see his own special form face to face with him. He realised what must have happened. He hurried to Hitler... the same Mahakali, for the greater devil was pulled into action willynilly by the hands of the Divine. The Mother, by a bold piece of what we may call a divine outdevilling of the super-devil, the Lord of Falsehood, created directly a head-long clash between the two arch-enemies of Light, and managed to make this very clash a thunderstroke of God. * Not every non-evolutionary force from ...

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... explain two years later in one of her evening talks, money and politics are the principal sources of resistance to the triumph of the new dispensation. Politics is dominated by the Lord of Falsehood, the Lord of the Nations, and money is monopolised by Mammon the Asura. How is global unity to be promoted and established if currency restrictions congeal the arteries of finance: It has become almost... its true spirit, that is, as the organisation of human masses and all the details of government and regulation of the collective life, and relations with other collectivities - that is, with other nations, other countries - it must necessarily enter into the supramental transformation.... 5 The Mother had taken, as we saw earlier, a crucial part in promoting the merger of Pondicherry with India... worse since the last war; it grows worse year by year.... 4 Politics, too, was taking up - thanks to the Cold War - extremely rigid attitudes, as if the whole thing was manipulated indeed by the Lord of Anti-Life or Death. The Mother had of course no interest in politics but she could not close her eyes either to its dubious ways or to its almost ubiquitous presence: In principle we have said ...

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... :inspirations which he carried out later very faithfully. This being which Hitler took for the Supreme was quite plainly an Asura, one who is called the "Lord of Falsehood" in occultism, but who proclaimed himself the "Lord of the Nations" .... Generally he used to appear to Hitler wearing a silver cuirass and helmet; a kind of flame came out of his head and there was an atmosphere of dazzling ...

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... the initial emanations that turned themselves into their opposites, the first two are converted again into Consciousness and Bliss. But Falsehood, especially its pernicious emanation, "the Lord of the Nations", and Death - which is as stark as ever and as apparently immitigable - have so far defied re-conversion into their native splendour of Truth and Life. And not until these two Asuras too -... stand an Indian lady with a welcoming leaf of palm and a French lady with an auspicious olive branch. This amity between the Orient and the Occident augurs well for an enduring peace and concord among nations. The open spaces between the four pillars of the pavilion are covered by entwining creepers with alternating red and white lotuses. The red and the white lotuses represent the twin spiritual C... writes in the August 1954 Bulletin: From one end I would say: "Lord, to be truly near Thee, to be truly worthy of Thee, one must drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation and yet not feel humiliated. The contempt of man makes one truly free and ready to belong to Thee alone." And from the other end I would say: "Lord, to be truly near Thee, to be truly worthy of Thee, one must be lifted ...

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... outer life of the Ashram was not seriously affected by the constraints and anxieties of the War. The Yoga was in its dynamic stage of giving a relentless fight to the Asura, the Lord of Falsehood, the Lord of the Nations! But since all life was Yoga, while other activities went on as before, Hitler's War too was taken in the yogic stride. When the Mother had a few moments to spare after the evening's... Nature's Lord.. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan's peace. We are the javelins of Destiny, we are the children of Wotan, We are the human Titans, the supermen dreamed by the sage. A cross of the beast and demoniac with the godhead of power and will, We are born in humanity's sunset, to the Night is our pilgrimage. On the bodies of perishing nations, mid the... disciple that in the terrestrial play there was the constant clash between the pro-Divine and the anti-Divine (or Asuric) forces, and men as well as nations became consciously or unconsciously the instruments of these forces: If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well ...

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... chicanery and militarist ambitions - burst in the form of the global War. The recovery, the healing, Page 120 the permanent cure would be a long process, for the Lord of Falsehood or the Lord of the Nations would not easily yield ground or suffer obscuration. Human effort would be necessary on an unprecedented scale, but Grace would be needed too. Tapahprabhāvāddevaprasādācca !... dogs of global war have been unleashed in Europe. and on 4 August, these words are wrung from her heart: O Lord, O eternal Master! Men, driven by the conflict of forces, are performing a sublime sacrifice, they are offering their lives in a bloodstained holocaust. ... O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine... the earth amongst our ignorant and sorrowful human brothers". On 6 August again: "O Lord, we know that it is an hour of great gravity for the earth." And two days later: Monstrous forces have swooped down upon the earth like a hurricane, forces dark and violent and powerful and blind. Give us strength, O Lord, to illumine them. Thy splendour must break out everywhere in them and transfigure ...

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... a being, a goddess, ‘just like Shiva is a god’, called Bharat Mata, Mother India. The visible land mass is the material body of this very real being, venerated as the soul of the nation. In the same way other nations too have at their centre a living Being always striving for their integrality, their natural completeness and perfection; it is this Being that inspires the ‘cells’ of its body, i.e... Stalins, and even after Hitler’s and Stalin’s death the forces who had used them would choose others as their instruments. ‘To them, it is as if you change your shirt,’ the Mother said. The Lord of the Nations did everything possible to redeem his threatening promise to her. In June 1950 Sri Aurobindo therefore wrote about the Korean War to K.D. Sethna, chief editor of Mother India, the periodical... ‘a postscript chapter 93 to it in which he applauded the foundation of the United Nations, although he was very much conscious of the shortcomings of the organization just like he had been of those of its predecessor, the League of Nations. ‘The League of Nations disappeared but was replaced by the United Nations Organisation which now stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some ...

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... endeavour. As Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have stated explicitly, the rather weak personality of Adolf Hitler got its strength and inspiration from an asuric power, the Lord of Falsehood who calls himself Lord of the Nations. It was at the inspiration of this occult personality that the Second World War took place, to counteract the avataric Work that would lead to the appearance of a divinized... Sri Aurobindo was invited to address the nation in a radio broadcast, which he read from his room. On that occasion he talked about his “five dreams,” these dreams being five prominent tasks he had set himself to be accomplished through his avataric work. The five dreams were: the freedom of India; the awakening of Asia; the formation of conglomerates of nations leading up to a worldwide community; world... down. India and China, in 1947 part of the third world, are now rivals of the rich nations in the international market and have to be taken into account politically. Conglomerates of nations are now in place, mostly constituted along geographical lines. The European Union, where at the time of writing 27 nations are learning to live together and cooperate, stands out as an example. Other conglomerates ...

... the triumph of the Lord of Death - must depend upon our choice, whether as individuals, nations or continents. Was 1967 to be the year of the Grace of God, or the year of humanity's doom? The descent into the Abyss was a path clearly macadamised by the alliance between ruthless technological power and rabid national consciousness engineered by the Lord of the Nations, the Lord of Falsehood. The nuclear... what a tremendous gain, for all bondage to external things was gone! And the body had the feeling of living "only because the supreme Lord wants it to live". What this meant was that the Lord was master of the body, and the body saw, heard and did what the Lord wanted it to do. Accordingly, sometimes the Mother's vision was more precise than ever before, and she was able to have direct perception... complications. She realised that, if everything was the result of a choice, it was also "the Lord's choice, but in us, not [up] there... here. And we do not know, it is quite within the heart of ourselves." It all came to this, then: the individualised egoistic functioning was a myth, for the Lord was in everything and everybody, and He made the choice; but unaware of this reality, people had ...

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... And this, of course, is why their conversion is crucial for the destiny of the world. Mirra’s encounter with a third emanation – an emanation of the Asura of Falsehood, who calls himself ‘Lord of the Nations’ – will take up part of the following chapter. Mirra Morisset’s connection with the Cosmic Movement had lasted five years, for her a period of enormous progress and change. Her life as an... making a small puddle on the parquet floor. ‘He gave her his sweetest smile and said: “But we were called by the fir trees! Fir trees call the snow, they are trees of the snow countries. I am the Lord of the Snow, so I came to announce you that we are coming. We have been called, we are coming” … He went away. The moonlight went with him. She lit a lamp – there was no electricity – and saw a little ...

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... recognized Richard as an emanation of the third Asura we have met in the former chapter: the Asura of Falsehood who had originally been the Angel of Truth, and who now called (and calls) himself ‘Lord of the Nations.’ His conversion was an immense task undertook, and the story of the relationship would be ‘far more exciting than any novel imaginable.’ When she took up the challenge, she was sufficiently... complementary halves of humanity’ that should now find its expression in the outer forms of society and in its laws. But she also said: ‘If women want to take the place they claim in the government of the nations, they must still make much more progress in the mastery of the self, the broadening of their ideas and points of view, in intellectual suppleness, and in the oblivion of their sentimental preferences... creation we have to do: to create activities, new modes of being for that Force, unknown to the Earth till today, to manifest in its plenitude. To this labour of a new birth I have consecrated myself, O Lord, for it is what Thou wantest of me. But since Thou hast appointed me for this work, Thou must give me the means, that is, the knowledge necessary for its realization.’ ...

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... freedom and unity and take an effective place among the world's free nations. I hope that it will be accepted, and right use made of it, putting aside all discords and divisions. I hope too that friendly relations between Britain and India replacing the past struggles, will be a step towards a greater world union in which, as a free nation, her spiritual force will contribute to build for mankind a better... own interests? Sri Aurobindo (laughing): Of course!... It is a very powerful Being. Paul Richard was in communion with this Being and the plans and methods he has written of in his book Lord of the Nations , are the same as carried out now. He has said there that the present civilisation is to be destroyed but really it is the destruction of the human values of civilisation that is aimed at and... of India, ready to give its help. In the history of a nation such opportunities do not come often. The Grace presents itself at rare moments, after centuries of preparation of that nation. If it is accepted, the nation will survive and get a new birth in the Divine's consciousness. But if it is rejected the Grace will withdraw and then the nation will suffer terribly, calamity will overtake it. "'Only ...

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... followed almost step by step in Nirodbaran’s Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo . Hidden behind Nazism and causing its success was the action of the Asura of Falsehood who calls himself “the Lord of the Nations” 83 : In 1938, when the descent of the Supermind seemed imminent, Sri Aurobindo was directly attacked and broke his thigh. That the Second World War was intended to countermand the mission... end; no smaller or looser expedient would adequately serve the purpose.” 76 “An authority of this nature [then the League of Nations, now the United Nations] would have to command the psychological assent of mankind, exercise a moral force upon the nations greater than that of their own national authority and compel more readily their obedience under all normal circumstances. It would have... secret of the reign of the Spirit over mind and life and body. It is because they have never quite lost hold of this secret, never disowned it in impatience for a lesser victory, that the older Asiatic nations have survived so persistently and can now, as if immortal, raise their faces towards a new dawn; for they have fallen asleep, but they have not perished.” 65 This was written in 1915. It may be ...

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... Letter. 1920s . The circumstances referred to in this letter suggest that it was written during the early 1920s, when Sri Aurobindo was partly retired. The reference to Le seigneur des nations ("The Lord of the Nations"), a book by Paul Richard, suggests that Richard was the intended recipient. Sri Aurobindo's reply was meant to be sent over the signature of a secretary. This explains his use of the... the mandatory test in horse-riding. According to his own retrospective account, he had developed a distaste for Civil Service work and was delighted to be rejected on these trivial grounds. To Lord Kimberley. [1] 21 November 1892 . After he was rejected from the I.C.S., Sri Aurobindo was advised that his only hope, if he wished to remain in the service, was to write directly to the Secretary... time was trying to pull strings to get the rejection overturned (see A. B. Purani, The Life of Sri Aurobindo [1978], pp. 326 - 33). [2] 12 December 1892. Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter after Lord Kimberley refused his request to grant him another chance to   Page 571 take the riding test. As a candidate who had successfully completed all the requirements but riding, he ...

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