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Hitler is to be admired for leaving the League of Nations because peace can never be attained by the victor and vanquished attitude, but on a basis of equality and brotherhood. Instead of preventing Hitler from having equal armament with other nations, the other nations should reduce the armaments to the level of Germany, then the millions of dollars that are thrown away on idle battleships could be used for national or international prosperity. America, France, and Great Britain should reduce their armaments first, and thereby destroy the desire of Japan, Russia, and Germany to become equally armed.

An insulted, snubbed Germany, if it gets away from the uplifting guidance of Hitler, may join Russia and make her a more powerful enemy of France and so on.

The Allies must reduce their own armaments first, and then they will find out that the example speaks louder than words.

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An Interview
By Swami Yogananda
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Question: What message has Hindu philosophy to offer toward solving present-day problems of peace between nations and averting international disasters?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi is the walking philosopher of India. He has demonstrated the philosophy of non-violence and non-co-operation with evil systems and of resistance by a spiritual force only, in the face of machine guns, and has thus won more self-governing privileges for India within a few years than Ireland accomplished in 750 years of armed resistance.

Since man’s destructive power has become greater than his power of construction, the nations of the earth must scrap the engines of war and try to settle their international disputes in the Gandhi way. As Bishop Fisher, who lived in India several years, said: "Mahatma Gandhi is showing the nations of the earth a new way to combat war." I have said: "The Western brothers, by guns, have conquered my land, but India is out with love to conquer their Souls."

In America, prohibition could not be enforced by machine guns, yet, by love, Gandhi has made over 60 per cent of the people of India stop drinking. By his spinning wheel, philosophy of plain living and high thinking, and the doctrine of all for each and each for all, Gandhi is not only founding India’s freedom on solid Spiritual laws, but is showing the nations how they can build an United States of the World with Truth as their President, and nations existing as States
considering international prosperity, international hygiene, international material, mental, and Spiritual well-being. Gandhi is making the Christ-doctrine of "charity and loving your enemies," practical weapons with which to conquer powerful England with love.

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Question: Will the economic, political, social, religious, and educational revolutions and transitions now experienced by most major nations probably result in cultural retrogression, or in intellectual and Spiritual expansion and greater international understanding and harmony?

Answer: We may stumble on the way, we may slip backward a little, but being endowed with Divine Intelligence, mentally we shall be moving constantly toward the goal of Truth and understanding. Every educational revolution at least shakes up the dormant Souls and quickens the receptive Souls, and awakens in them the desire to follow the path of Truth.

Transportation, destruction, war, disease, universal depression, world war—all these are making nations realize more and more that national safety, security, prosperity, health, and wisdom are dependent upon and are included in the qualitative international development. Individual national selfishness must be sacrificed for the greater patriotism of international common well-being. Then it will be found that real international upliftment includes the national upliftment.

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Question: Individualism and socialism are conflicting philosophies in the modern world. Which is more likely to prevail in the future?

Answer: Individual perfection and social upliftment are interdependent. A master brain like that of Mussolini does more good than millions of social organizations of group intelligence. Yet, if many persons in a group should develop the brain power of a Mussolini, they would be greater than the individual Mussolini. Great individuals are sent on earth as a pattern after which ordinary members of society must model themselves.

Socialism, consisting of evolved individuals, will prevail in the end, but as long as people are not highly evolved, individualism will keep coming to the surface. Individualism exists only for the ushering in of Spiritual socialism, in which evolved Souls will live only for the greatest good of the greatest number.

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Question: Does the rise, in recent years, of dictatorships as forms of government indicate the failure and ultimate doom of Democracy?

Answer: A society of morons and unthinking people will never establish a real Democracy. The average man cannot think clearly, but is ruled by explosions of his emotions. He needs the master mind of a Dictator in order to think right and do right. When the mass of the people in a nation are qualitatively and uniformly educated, they will form the Democracy of universal wisdom and agreement, and will then be able to govern themselves spontaneously by the universal laws of Truth. Then Dictators will be unnecessary.

One real wise Dictator, like President Roosevelt, is much better than too many cooks of small Dictators and politicians, who spoil the broth. Much is discussed and nothing accomplished with many. A whole-hearted co-operation with the NRA, and with active, wise President Roosevelt, will bring prosperity and international balance. Democracy will never fail; it is the growing life of nations, which will mature through the trials of republicanism, dictatorships, capitalism, and any other "isms" which are necessary for its growth.

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Question: What effect would independence for India probably have on that nation’s diplomatic and commercial relations with other countries?

Answer: America does 300 million dollars worth of business a year in India. Japan used to do more than that. Germany and England did a great deal of business with India, but India’s non-violence war with England has caused a boycott of most European goods. President Wilson’s 14 points still are in the minds of the people of India in spite of the fact that those 14 points were spirited away in connection with the mandatory nations.

Unless England gives complete independence, or self-government, to India, India will boycott all European goods. Miss Mayo, alleged to be subsidized by Western nations to write against India, hurt the business of America with India, although not as much as with England.

A free India will enrich the world with her agricultural and mining resources, and will become prosperous herself when she uses the hoarded gold of the idle princes to buy agricultural and scientific machinery. Her diplomatic relations with international equality and freedom will prevent the greatest potential war between the insulted dependent nations of Asia (a combined China, Japan, India, and Egypt) and some nations of Europe—Germany, Russia, and America excepted.

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Feb 1933 East West
Yogananda's editorial
INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Mussolini has released thousands of prisoners from jail. This certainly is an adoption of Christ principles in politics, inaugurated by a great man.

Is America approaching toward capitalism, socialism, or equality of all men and women, with free education, free board and lodging, and free transportation by spiritual law of brotherhood and mutual agreement? The last-named seems to be the goal toward which all nations are moving, led by the example of Gandhi in India.

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East West, Volume 2

Science and Religion—By Benito Mussolini

There is no doubt that Science yearns to arrive at the final reason of all things. After having examined phenomena, it seeks to explain their reason.

It is my modest opinion that Science will never arrive at explaining the wherefore of phenomena, which will always remain a zone of mystery, a closed wall.

Upon this closed wall the human spirit must write the one word "God."

Therefore, to my belief, there is no question of any conflict between Science and Faith. These matters belong to the polemics of twenty or thirty years ago, but I think that we of this generation have gone beyond this point. Science has its own field; that of experience; Religion has another field, that of Spirit.

It has been said: What is the use of all the Philosophy of this world if it cannot teach us to bear a trouble with equanimity? There is an intermediate zone set apart for meditation on, rather than for examination of, the supreme ends of existence.

Philosophy alone can illumine Science and bring it within the realm of the Universal Idea.

—From a public speech, February, 1927.

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East West 1935
News From India

SINCE his arrival in India, the Swami has been so busy with lectures, interviews, and friends that we have received almost no news except that printed in the newspapers there.

The Swami visited Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha and his own school at Ranchi, and has since been in Calcutta, where the new Self-Realization Center is to be established. After that, he plans to open health and spiritual Centers all over Bengal and the principal provinces of India. His Brother, Bishnu Charan, is to have charge of the physical and health
branch of the work, and Swamiji will care for the spiritual training.

The Swami will soon start on his tour of India. On his way back to this country (some time next year) he plans to lecture and hold classes in London, and to visit both Mussolini and Hitler.

The object of the Self-Realization Fellowship, which Swami Yogananda organized in this country and which he is now establishing in India, is to bring peoples of all religious beliefs together in fellowship, and to teach all men, no matter what their creed or nationality, the universal principles of truth underlying all religion, and the scientific method of self-realization of these divine principles.

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Don't take what he [PY] wrote about politics seriously. Yogananda was a shallow reader of the news. He knew little about foreign affairs. He liked to have an opinion an everything, however ill-informed. He also liked to fill up East-West...As you can see, Yogananda had absolutely no idea that Hitler was a menace, in a period when Churchill was carried in many papers here and in England, and was warning pretty precisely what was to come. Unlike Churchill, Yogananda had no prescience of any kind about the future. He was about as prescient as Neville Chamberlain.

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Quickening Human Evolution by Swami Yogananda,
East-West, Jan-Feb, 1929, Vol4-1

So there is a method which the master minds of India have taught of revolving certain kinds of vital currents around the spine and brain. By twelve times of practicing this method you can gain the result of one year’s ordinary physical evolution. That is how many saints quickly get their spiritual knowledge, far beyond that of theoretical theologians.
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