“Look at all that is and has been happening in human history – the eye of the Yogin [spiritual adept] sees not only the outward events and persons and causes but the enormous forces which precipitate them into action.
If the men who fought were instruments in the hands of rulers and financiers, these, in turn, were mere puppets in the clutch of those [hyperdimensional occult] forces.
The apparent freedom and self-assertion of our personal being to which we are so profoundly attached conceal a most pitiable subjection to a thousand suggestions, impulsions, and forces.
Our ego, boasting of freedom, is at every moment the slave, toy, and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, and influences in universal Nature.
When one is habituated to see the things behind, one is no longer prone to be touched by the outward aspects – or to expect any remedy from political, institutional, or social changes; the only way out is through the descent of a Divine consciousness which is not the puppet of these forces but is greater than they are.” Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga