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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 2, 15th July 2022

conquest, the conquest of the soul over tamasic consciousness and awaken dormant
nature. Thus trained, wars became and energies. Finally they can, by contrast, and
still are schools of courage that train because of the horrors that accompany and
us into conscious sacrifice, fearlessness follow them, drive men to seek an effective way
and thereby lift these qualities to their to make such a barbarous and violent form of
divine heights. In the Indian conception transformation unnecessary. For everything
of life the goddesses Durgaa and Kaali are that is unnecessary to the evolution of the earth
worshipped as the mighty ones who automatically ceases to exist.
defend the righteous and destroy a
whole past that has no more reason to You have written: “They [wars] may serve to
exist. By training this element in man, one destroy a past which refuses to disappear although
can touch even the divine heights that these its time is over, and they make room for new
qualities represent. The Mother reveals things.” Now that the Supermind has descended
to us: upon earth will war be necessary to change the
present state of the world?
“Are all these wars necessary for the evolution of
the earth? All will depend on the receptivity of nations. If
they open widely and quickly to the influence
At a certain stage of human development, of the new forces and if they change rapidly
wars are inevitable. In prehistoric times the enough in their conceptions and actions, war
whole of life was a war; and to the present may be avoided. But it is always threatening
day human history has been one long history and always in abeyance; every error, every
of wars. Wars are the natural result of a state darkening of the consciousness increases this
of consciousness dominated by the struggle threat.
for life and egoistic aggressiveness. And at the
present time, in spite of some human efforts And yet in the last analysis everything really
towards peace, there is, as yet, nothing to depends on the Divine Grace and we should
assure us that war is no longer an inevitable look towards the future with confidence and
calamity. Indeed, does not a state of war, open serenity, at the same time progressing as fast
or otherwise, exist at this moment in many as we can (4).”
parts of the world?
Wars will eventually end but only when they
Besides, everything that happens on earth are no longer necessary for progress. The
necessarily leads to its progress. Thus wars are progress that is needed to end wars is a
schools of courage, endurance, fearlessness; change in consciousness so that instead of
they may serve to destroy a past which refuses being governed by the ego and the whiplash
to disappear although its time is over, and of desires we are governed by the law of
they make room for new things. Wars can, Truth and the will for Harmony. This will
like Kurukshetra, be a way to rid the earth of a happen only as mankind evolves out of itself a
domineering or destructive race so that justice divine super-humanity of the future. It is only
and right may reign. They can, through the when the human-animal is not only tamed
presence of danger, shake the apathy of a too but transformed through the spiritualisation

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