SRI AUROBINDO ON NETAJI --- FROM A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIS DISCIPLE, DILIP KUMAR ROY

SRI AUROBINDO ON NETAJI --- FROM A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIS DISCIPLE, DILIP KUMAR ROY

"You will remember that both the Mother and I were very angry against Subhas for having brought the Japanese into India and reproached him with it as a treason and crime against the motherland. For if they had got in, it would have been almost impossible to get them out. The Mother knows the Japanese nation well and was positive about that. Okawa, the leader of the black dragon (the one who shammed mad and got off at the Tokyo trial) told her that if India revolted against the British, Japan would send her navy to help, but he said that he would not like the Japanese to land because if they once got hold of Indian soil, they would never leave it, and it was true enough. If the Japanese had overrun India, and they would have done it if a powerful divine intervention had not prevented it, and turned the tables on them, they would have joined the Germans in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus and nothing could have saved Europe and Asia from being overrun. This would have meant the destruction of our work and a horrible fate for this country and for the world. You can understand therefore the bitterness of our feeling at that time against Subhas and his association with the Axis and the disaster of his country for which he would have been responsible. Incidentally, instead of being liberated in 1948 (sic), India would have had to spend a century or several centuries in a renewed servitude. When, therefore, the Mother heard that you are writing a book eulogising Subhas, she disapproved strongly of any such thing issuing out of the ashram and she wanted that you should be asked not to publish it."