Page 6 - All India Magazine Oct-2025

On World War II
You have said that you have begun to doubt whether it was
the Mother's war and ask me to make you feel again that it is. I af-
firm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war . You
should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others
or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish
itself on earth in the life of humanity, for a Truth that has yet to re-
alise itself fully and against a darkness and falsehood that are try-
ing to overwhelm the earth and mankind in the immediate future.
It is the forces behind the battle that have to be seen and not this
or that superficial circumstance. It is no use concentrating on the
defects or mistakes of nations; all have defects and commit seri-
ous mistakes; but what matters is on what side they have ranged
themselves in the struggle. It is a struggle for the liberty of man-
kind to develop, for conditions in which men have freedom and
room to think and act according to the light in them and grow in
the Truth, grow in the Spirit. There cannot be the slightest doubt
that if one side wins, there will be an end of all such freedom and
hope of light and truth and the work that has to be done will be
subjected to conditions which would make it humanly impossible;
there would be a reign of falsehood and darkness, a cruel oppres-
sion and degradation for most of the human race such as people
in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the
other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity
triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and condi-
tions will have been created in which there will be a chance for
the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual
Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those
who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the
threatened reign of the Asura...
CWSA 35: 211-12

6 All India Magazine, October 2025