I have always known that cruelty, like sadism, is the need to cut through a thick layer of totally insensitive tamas [[Tamas: the principle of inertia and obscurity. ]] by means of extremely violent sensation - an extreme is needed if anything is to be felt through that tamas. I was always told, for example (in Japan it was strongly emphasized to me), that the people of the Far East are very tamasic physically. The Chinese in particular are said to be the remnants of a race that inhabited the moon before it froze over and forced them to seek refuge on earth (this is supposed to account for their round faces and the shape of their eyes!).... Anyway (laughing), it's a story people tell! But they're extremely tamasic; their physical sensibility is almost nil - appalling things are required to make them feel anything! And since they naturally presume that what applies to them applies to everyone, they are capable of appalling cruelty. Not all of them, of course! But this is their reputation. Have you read Mirbeau's book? (I believe that's his name.) I read it sixty years ago - something on Chinese torture.

page 266-67 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 18th July - 1961

... I have come to understand that the Chinese are a lunar race - their origin is the moon. They came to earth when the moon got too cold and they could no longer exist there. This is something I saw at the beginning of the century and my impression was further intensified when I went to China. [[Probably in March 1920, at the time Mao Tse-tung was writing The Great Union of the Popular Masses. ]] They are a lunar race. And they gave me the feeling of people who lack a psychic being: they are cold, ice-cold. But wonderfully intellectual!

I met another Chinese a few years ago, a man with a spiritual life. He came to meet me and talked for an hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative power - inventors. He told me, "No people in the world could understand Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese." And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual comprehension, really at its peak.

It's another story when it comes to doing yoga.... Although that must depend entirely on the individual. The Chinese don't have the same spiritual intensity you find rooted in the Indian character - it's something completely different. Here, spiritual life is real, concrete, tangible - totally real. For the Chinese it all happens at the top of the head.

page 393 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 20th Oct. 1962


It seems more likely that the Chinese would be the ones to come here, not the others.
Oh, but the Chinese ... The Chinese come from the moon, what are they doing on earth! The origin of the Chinese isn't earthly: it is lunar.

Yes, but still, it seems they would be the ones to come here rather than the Americans or Russians?
Than the Americans ...

Circumstances seem rather...
No, the Americans can come here to "save" India from China.

(silence)

To be under Chinese domination ... it's better to die first. They are ... from the point of view of sensitivity, they are monsters.


They are monsters.

They are lunar - lunar, that is, cold, icy.

No, there's no wavering between the two. The Chinese, the Chinese domination over the earth is ... it means the earth hardening, the earth growing cold like the moon. Oh, that would be dreadful.

Ah, good-bye, my children.

We don't want catastrophes.


page 138 - 39 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 18th June - 1965

But already quite some time ago I saw China invading India, even South India. And that's the worst of catastrophes -- the Chinese don't have a psychic being. The Chinese have a lunar origin and they don't have a psychic being (there are exceptions, but I mean in general), and so one can expect ANYTHING from them -- every possible horror. I've seen them -- all, everywhere ... horrible!

I've seen the Chinese in this room.


Which is the end of everything. I mean, it will probably take centuries before things can return to normalcy.

You see, there are limits to the horrors men can commit because, in spite of everything, there is a psychic being behind that curbs them -- but the Chinese don't have one.

And they are VERY intelligent.


page 132-33 - Mother's Agenda , volume 12 , 12th May - 1971