“So long as war does not become psychologically impossible, it will remain or, if banished for a while, return,” he wrote in an April 1916 essay titled, The Passing of War, two years into the First World War, illustrating that the need for war lies within; tanks and guns are mere puppets in the hands of more powerful generals driving armies within us. “War is no longer, perhaps, a biological necessity, but 
it is still a psychological necessity; what is within us, must manifest itself outside.”

Sri Aurobindo

 

Sage for the age: Remembering Sri Aurobindo on his 150th birth anniversary

 

Published: 14th August 2022 05:00 AM  |   Last Updated: 13th August 2022 02:21 PM