01-24-2006, 02:49 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sushmita: Excolonizers remarked about Aurobindo 'as the most dangerous man to be dealt with'. Surely he didnot support Eng as claimed by you.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sri Aurobindo was a clear supporter of the allied war effort during WW2 as Sushmitaji said, from India's rebirth:
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    It seems it is not five or six of our people [the Ashram's disciples] but more than half that are in sympathy with Hitler and want him to win.[4]
(A disciple, laughing
Half?
    No, it is not a matter to laugh at. It is a very serious matter. ... If these people want that the Ashram should be dissolved, they can come and tell me and I will dissolve it instead of the police doing it. They have no idea about the world and talk like children. Hitlerism is the greatest menace that the world has ever metâif Hitler wins, do they think India has any chance of being free? It is a well-known fact that Hitler has an eye on India. He is openly talking of world-empire....
    I hear K. [a disciple] says that Russia can come now and conquer India. It is this kind of slave mentality that keeps India in bondage. He pretends to spirituality; doesn't he know that the first thing that Stalin will do is to wipe out spirituality from India?...
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May 18, 1940
(A disciple D. was being jeered at [by other âdisciplesâ] for being pro-Ally. When he said he was sad at Holland's defeat, they remarked, âYou are pro-Ally?â
    They are glad that Holland was occupied? Very strange, and yet they want freedom for India? That is one thing I can't swallow. How can they have sympathy with Hitler who is destroying other nations, taking away their liberty? It is not only pro-Ally sympathy but sympathy for humanity that they are jeering at.
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(A disciple But how long can Hitler keep these races [in the countries he invaded] in subjection? They will rise in revolt one day.
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    What about Poland and Czechoslovakia? They are two of the most heroic nations in the world and yet what can they do?...
The trouble about India is that the British government has not kept a single promise so far. So nobody trusts it.
    The fact is that the British don't trust India to help them if she is given Dominion status. Otherwise they would have given it.
I don't think India will refuse to help if we get something.
    You think so? I am not sure. What do you think of the left-wingers, Communists, Subhas Bose, for instance? And it is not true that they [the British] have given nothing.... They gave provincial autonomy and didn't exercise any veto power. It is the Congress that spoiled everything by resigning.[9] If without resigning they had put pressure at the Centre they would have got by now what they want. It is for two reasons <span style='color:red'>I support the British in this war: first in India's own interest and secondly for humanity's sake, and the reasons I have given are external reasons, there are spiritual reasons too.[10]</span>
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Sri Aurobindo was a clear supporter of the allied war effort during WW2 as Sushmitaji said, from India's rebirth:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->May 17, 1940
    It seems it is not five or six of our people [the Ashram's disciples] but more than half that are in sympathy with Hitler and want him to win.[4]
(A disciple, laughing
Half?    No, it is not a matter to laugh at. It is a very serious matter. ... If these people want that the Ashram should be dissolved, they can come and tell me and I will dissolve it instead of the police doing it. They have no idea about the world and talk like children. Hitlerism is the greatest menace that the world has ever metâif Hitler wins, do they think India has any chance of being free? It is a well-known fact that Hitler has an eye on India. He is openly talking of world-empire....
    I hear K. [a disciple] says that Russia can come now and conquer India. It is this kind of slave mentality that keeps India in bondage. He pretends to spirituality; doesn't he know that the first thing that Stalin will do is to wipe out spirituality from India?...
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May 18, 1940
(A disciple
D. was being jeered at [by other âdisciplesâ] for being pro-Ally. When he said he was sad at Holland's defeat, they remarked, âYou are pro-Ally?â    They are glad that Holland was occupied? Very strange, and yet they want freedom for India? That is one thing I can't swallow. How can they have sympathy with Hitler who is destroying other nations, taking away their liberty? It is not only pro-Ally sympathy but sympathy for humanity that they are jeering at.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->October 12, 1940
(A disciple
But how long can Hitler keep these races [in the countries he invaded] in subjection? They will rise in revolt one day./
    What about Poland and Czechoslovakia? They are two of the most heroic nations in the world and yet what can they do?...
The trouble about India is that the British government has not kept a single promise so far. So nobody trusts it.
    The fact is that the British don't trust India to help them if she is given Dominion status. Otherwise they would have given it.
I don't think India will refuse to help if we get something.
    You think so? I am not sure. What do you think of the left-wingers, Communists, Subhas Bose, for instance? And it is not true that they [the British] have given nothing.... They gave provincial autonomy and didn't exercise any veto power. It is the Congress that spoiled everything by resigning.[9] If without resigning they had put pressure at the Centre they would have got by now what they want. It is for two reasons <span style='color:red'>I support the British in this war: first in India's own interest and secondly for humanity's sake, and the reasons I have given are external reasons, there are spiritual reasons too.[10]</span>
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