(On September 6, after months of clashes in the Kutch desert, Indian troops penetrated into Pakistan. Karachi calls for help from the "Western allies." New Delhi orders a general mobilization. On September 16, China will declare its support of Pakistan. On September 19, the Security Council enjoins India and Pakistan to cease fire and the U.S.S.R. proposes a meeting at Tashkent. On September 22, India and Pakistan order a cease-fire. On September 25, China reiterates its claim to 35,000 square miles of Indian territory. This is the second Indo-Pakistani conflict since Independence. There will be a third in 1971 over Bangladesh.)
We are threatened with a blackout.
It has started.
Yes, but so far they have only cut off all the street lightsto help thieves go about their business. But they havent said anything yet about lights indoors.
They want to cut those off, too?
Yes. Then well only have to go to bed at 7 in the evening (even earlier), till 6 in the morning. We wont be able to do anything anymore. Its stupid. All the more so since if there is a bright moon shining, they dont need any other light to bomb.
How do you expect planes to come here from Pakistan? They wouldnt have enough fuel to go back.
Not that. They have sent aircraft carriers.
Pakistan?
Yes, they have already bombed several places.
Are you going to let the Indians go right to the end this time?1
I myself have nothing to do with that.
Nothing to do with it? You let things take their course?
No, really I have been told many things, but among those many things, I have been told that the intention was to reach a conclusion.
Its ridiculous, isnt it?2
Oh, yes!
Well see.
Will they [the Indians] have the courage to hold out against the pressure from the Americans, the British, etc.? Thats the most difficult. The most difficult part isnt the military part, its politically to hold out against the pressures from all those people who say, You must make peace.
But they arent sincere.
Thats the trouble, not one of these nations is sincere. They pretend, they strike a pose, but its not true.
They say (they say lots of things, but there is always the distortion of something true), they say that America outwardly preaches peace, but clandestinely offers money to people who declare war on certain governments. I dont know if its true. There must be something true. The new president of I dont remember which country (Vietnam, I think) made a public declaration that America had offered him fantastic sums so he would take their sideis it true, is it untrue? We cant say. Everybody tells lies, but behind all those lies there is something.
I dont know.
It would be good to be done with it.
There is one thing, its that Pakistan is entirely dependent on the help they are giventhey make nothing themselves. They have no factories, no industries, nothing. So of course, they are in an inferior situation.
But anyway, all that
Some people see, and rightly so, an analogy between this war and the war of the Gita in which Arjuna had to fight the members of his own family. They say its the members of the same family that are now fighting, and perhaps in fact in order to
What I felt strongly was that something had to erupt: it was too absurdly tense and devoid of truth.
I dont know if I told you that the day before it was known that it had really become a sort of war, the night before that, I had an experience that has occurred to me only two or three times in my life, always in similar circumstances. This time, I wasnt expecting anything, and in the night, there was in the TERRESTRIAL atmosphere, with a concentration on India, a sort of something I might call a pressure of the Supreme. Its as if the Supremes Consciousness were exerting a pressure, and it produces a certain type of stillness with a solidity and a consistency not found anywhere else. You know, its even more solid and substantial than the most inert inertia. And its the pressure of the Supreme Power. Its almost intolerable or unbearable for Matter, for material substance. And it goes like this (gesture of massive descent), absolutely impossible to budge, and at the same time you feel its the Supreme Power. Well, it lasted for hours that night, and I was extremely attentive in order to know what it meant. And the next day, I was told things had all of a sudden broken out like a war: all that friction that had been there for years had suddenly taken that form.
So it is clearly a very exceptional intervention that has brought this about.
But while I was having the experience, there was absolutely no awareness of the goal, the motive, the purpose, nothing: it was like this (same massive gesture taking hold of everything), a sort of absolute, without explanation.
Ive had this two or three times in my life, in the most serious terrestrial circumstances.
Thats why; the next day, they told me what was going on and asked me what I felt; I simply answered, Its serious.
It can only be serious.
Now serious, what we could call serious is when it becomes global.
It seems that so far Pakistan has already called for help from three or four countries, which have refused. But the news I attach no importance to it because it is always falsified. For instance, when a country like Britain can decide to give her support, officially she will say, We have nothing to do with your war. So it doesnt mean anything.
There.
I still hope we will be allowed to work a little in the evening, otherwise well have to rest. To rest (!) as soon as I am lying there, on what is called my bed, I start working.
Well.
Right to the end = Karachi. Sri Aurobindo, it may be recalled, repeatedly said that until the partition of India is abolished, "India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may always remain possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest." It may also be recalled that Pakistan is an artificial creation by the British, in line with the policy of "divide and rule." The Americans and the Chinese have taken up the same policy again.
Mother is referring to the continual border clashes.
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September 8, 1965
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