Joseph Stalin
- (Purani:) “If the Hindus and Muslims go on fighting with each other, other powers are sure to come in and a fresh subjugation is inevitable.
(Sri Aurobindo, 1940:) Certainly. That is from the national point of view. Spiritually Stalin and Hitler will never tolerate any kind of work like ours. Spirituality and liberty of conscience are impossible in their regime.”[1]
- (Nirodbaran:) “If Hitler is defeated what will happen to the Being guiding him?
(Sri Aurobindo, 1940:) He will try to possess somebody else, for instance, Stalin. But I should say Stalin is himself a devil. He is cold and calculating, not suitable for the action of such Beings.
- The Mother said that Stalin is an incarnation of the Devil.
Yes.
- In that case, Dilip says, he is worse than a case of possession. How does he allow dancing, music, etc. in Russia?
That he can do. He is an intellectual Asura. All such things are a device to keep the people contented. But if they do go against the State they are shot. And what sort of music? Folk songs? Communism is a means for keeping power in his hands. Hitler's Being is a Rakshasa.
- Are these Beings immortal?
No, they can be destroyed but they may be born again.
- In the physical world?
No, in their own world.”[2]
(Amal Kiran's diary:) “Thursday, 5th March 1953 – … The first piece of news I got in the morning was from Soli Abless, who came smiling and striding from the Ashram. “Stalin has been given a blow in the brain. He is dying.” People in the Ashram were feeling that the Divine had brought about that brainstroke, the cerebral haemorrhage. The Mother said that the going of one individual could not make all the difference and that other instruments could be found by that Asuric force. When Soli Abless asked her if our aspirations and the Supermind's descent could make the difference, she smiled and nodded. She is also reported to have said that Stalin had been really finished two months earlier. He had merely continued as a powerless shell.”[3]
- ↑ Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p.658, 23 May 1940
- ↑ Ibid., 24 May 1940
- ↑ Amal Kiran, The Mother: Past, Present, Future, p.84, “Some Diary Notes”
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