Nuclear race

[Jordi Valero]

A few days ago I try to answer the next question that my brother has done to me:

What would be Sri Aurobindo's view about the nuclear race of Iran or North Korea?
What would be his opinion about this matter from his global vision of development and evolve of mankind?

I ask your opinion on this issue.

Thank you.

[Barindranath Chaki]

Sri Aurobindo may not have particularly referred to the nuclear race participated by Korea or Iran or by Israel or Egypt or by any other nations, but He has certainly spoken of the World Union, of the One World, of Unification. On 15th August, 1947, He stated of His dreams and one of His dreams is of the world union.

The third dream was a world-union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human world is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organised but struggling against tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer. Here too India has begun to play a prominent part and, if she can develop that larger statesmanship which is not limited by the present facts and immediate possibilities but looks into the future and brings it nearer, her presence may make all the difference between a slow and timid and a bold and swift development. A catastrophe may intervene and interrupt or destroy what is being done, but even then the final result is sure. For unification is a necessity of Nature, an inevitable movement. Its necessity for the nations is also clear, for without it the freedom of the small nations may be at any moment in peril and the life even of the large and powerful nations insecure. The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral citizenship, willed interchange or voluntary fusion of cultures. Nationalism will have fulfilled itself and lost its militancy and would no longer find these things incompatible with self-preservation and the integrality of its outlook. A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.” [Sri Aurobindo]

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The Mother said:
"Those who serve the Truth cannot take one side or another. Truth is above conflict or opposition. In Truth all countries unite in a common effort towards progress and realisation."
This was a message from The Mother in answering a question; in this regard, She said : “This was in answer to someone who asked whom one should ‘take sides’ with.”

The Mother was asked another question:
"If a world-war breaks out, it may not only destroy the major portion of humanity but may even make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and of the New Race upon earth?"
And the answer given by The Mother is as follows:
"All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domain of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to their solutions. But all that does not bring you one step closer to the truth.
"The safest and most healthy attitude of the mind is like this one: we have been told in a positive and definite way that the supramental creation will follow the present one, so, whatever is in preparation for the future must be the circumstances needed for the advent whatever they are. And as we are unable to foresee correctly what these circumstances are, it is better to keep silent about them."
Therefore, whatever may happen to this earth and the humanity due to the human follies, the advent of the Supramental Race is a must and that is the greatest Hope for the present human race.

Barindranath Chaki
29-09-09

[Jordi Valero]

Thanks, Barin.
As always, the words of Sri Aurobindo and Mother illuminate the eddies of history. Those words always invite us to see the overall course of the river and not its little eddies which ocasionally seem to go against of the general law of things.