Preparing for the Miraculous

what arjuna saw: the dark side of the force 89catastrophes.” 24 The Mother reminisced more explicitly:“There was such a constant tension for Sri Aurobindo andme that it interrupted the yoga completely during the wholewar. And it was for that reason that the war had come: tostop the Work. For there was an extraordinary descent of theSupermind at that time, it came like this [massive gesture]!That was exactly in 1939. Then the war came and broughteverything to a standstill, completely. For if we had goneon with the Work personally, we would not have been surethat there was enough time to finish it before ‘the other one’[the Asura of Falsehood, “Hitler’s God”] had made a messof the world, and the whole affair would have been postponedfor centuries. This had to be stopped first of all: theaction of the Lord of Nations – the Lord of Falsehood.” 25Hitler, his Nazis and the supporting Fascists of severalcountries lost the war. Yet the Lord of the Nations is notbound to any country or personality, and while the Alliednations were at their victory jig, he intensified his action inthe knowledge that, if he did not win one way or another,there would come an end to his reign over the peoples. Thesituation was “as clear as a pike-staff” to Sri Aurobindo’syogic knowledge and insight. “There was a time when Hitlerwas victorious everywhere and it seemed certain that ablack yoke of the Asura would be imposed on the wholeworld; but where is Hitler now and where is his rule?”However: “Other blacknesses threaten to overshadow oreven engulf mankind ...” 26May Aurobindians bear these words of Sri Aurobindoin mind: “It is not enough that our own hands should remainclean and our souls unstained for the law of strife24 Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 188.25 L’Agenda de Mère 1961, pp. 410-411.26 Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 169.