Vladimir Lenin

(Amal Kiran:) “It was rather surprising to see [the Mother] admiring Lenin. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have thought highly of him as an instrument of progressive change in despotic Russia just as he adjudged Mustafa Kamal for Sultan-ridden Turkey, and to have helped him with his spiritual force to bring about the Revolution against Czardom. It was only with the advent of Stalin that Sri Aurobindo turned his spiritual force against communist Russia …
         Lenin was esteemed by by Mother for his tremendous mental power. She once declared in a Prosperity Room talk: “When he suffered a stroke he lost all ability to speak. The language seemed lost to him. But by sheer exercise of his will he drew the language-consciousness back into himself from the mind-plane which exists independently of the brain.” ”

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