Apropos of India’s partition and the forces that worked behind it, we have the account by Munshi based on what Sri Aurobindo had told him in the course of an interview in 1950. India’s integrity and spiritual destiny always remained the concern of Sri Aurobindo. In the course of the interview, Munshi was taken aback when Sri Aurobindo surprised him with the unexpected question: “When do you expect India to be united?”

In this context we have to only remember the Nehru-Liaquat Pact and the Pakistan government’s refusal to sign a joint declaration, stating that in no event should there be recourse to war. This was on the political level; we don’t know things that were present in the occult world. One recoils despicably when there is the disregard for things that come from the knowledge founded on the workings of the spirit. …

But we should not take Sri Aurobindo as “Read-Only Text” frozen for all time without the contents of dynamism in time. We should lend ourselves to its dynamism, to its well-visioned efficacy. It is at times said that in the present conditions it makes more sense to work to achieve a culture of spiritual unity in India rather than the unification of India and Pakistan. But to speak of spirituality where there is falsehood is to be ignorant of things.

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