War-effort will be justified or stand condemned not by the results
which it produces, but by the ends by which it is inspired. The world has
to face this war and go through its ordeal of fire, even at the cost of
irreparable damage and unredeemable suffering; it is a necessary evil....
From the spiritual point of view of the last and the only truth, all souls
are in their essence fundamentally one. War cannot create any real
cleavage or division between the people who are fighting with each other.
The people of the warring countries seem to be different merely by virtue
of their souls, all differences are not only secondary but false. From
the point of view of ultimate reality, it remains true that no soul is
really at war with any other soul....
In the hour of trial, let the thought of everyone be not for the limited
self, but for others — not for the claims of the ego-life, but for the
claims of the Divine Self which is equally in all.
It is a mistake to ignore human suffering as merely a part of the
illusory universe. Not by ignoring human suffering, but by treating it
with Creative Love, is the Gateway opened for Life Eternal; and not
through callous indifference, but through active and selfless service, is
secured the attainment of that transcendental and illimitable Truth, which
is at the heart of the illusory universe.
