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na) would misuse their victory or bungle the peace or partially at
least spoil the opportunities opened to the human world by that
victory, I would still put my force behind them. At any rate, things
could not be one hundredth part as bad as they would be under
Hitler. The ways of the Lord would still be open—to keep them
open is what matters. Let us stick to the real issue and leave for a
later time all side-issues and minor issues or hypothetical problems
that would cloud the one all-important and tragic issue before us.

War of values
Ours is a sadhana which involves not only devotion or union
with the Divine or a perception of him in all things and beings, but
also action as workers and instruments and a work to be done
in the world, a spiritual force to be brought on the world, under
difficult conditions; then one has to see one's way and do what
is commanded and support what has to be supported, even if it
means war and strife carried on whether through chariots and
bows and arrows or tanks and cars and American bombs and aero-
planes, in either case a ghoraW karma: the means and times and
persons differ, but it does not seem to me that Nolini is wrong in
seeing in it the same problem as in Kurukshetra. As for war, vio-
lence, the use of force to maintain freedom for the world, for the
highest values of human civilisation, for the salvation of humanity
from a terrible fate, etc., the old command rings out once again
after many ages for those who must fight or support this battle for
the right, mayaivaite nihatDU purvam eva nimittamDtraW bhava
savyasDcin.
CWSA 35: 218-19 Sri Aurobindo

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