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The PROUT Companion

An edited, updated and

illustrated version of

PROUT Giita,originally written by

Ac. Raghunath Prasad

Proutist Universal

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The PROUT Companion

Edited and published by Proutist Universal Global Office

Platanvej 30 !"#$%$0 &rederi'sber( C !enmar'

) Proutist Universal *0$0

PROUT Giita

+y ,carya Ra(hunath Prasad

Published by Proutist Universal! -$ .outh E/tension e1 !elhi 2ndia

) Proutist Universal $4%

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PROUT !iita"

A short discussion on

the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT),

the socioeconomic theory roounded !y

P"R" #ar$ar, the seer hilosoher o% our time"

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ContentsPu!lisher's oreord""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""*

Pre%ace""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""+This ra -eeds PROUT"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""12

PROUT. The ive undamental Princiles"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""1*

The our Asects"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""2/

Philosohy""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""30

Theory o% istory"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""3

conomic Asects""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""&

4ndustrial olicy"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Agricultural Policy""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""*3Political #ystem"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""**

ternal #ong o% the Proutists""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""*

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Publisher's Foreword

On August 3, 1+/, Prout's %ounder P"R" #ar$ar as released%rom imrisonment in 4ndia, the cases against him 5uashed" or

nearly seven years, in harroing conditions, he had !een $et

in custody on %alse charges !y the 4ndian authorities"

According to theation 5aster Encyclopedia.

6y the early 1+0s the government o% 7est 6engal %elt the

social activism o% #ar$ar's organization had !ecome a threat to

their imorted materialist ideology o% 8ar9ism as ell as

undermining the oer !ase o% the :ommunist arty, hich

sought its suort among the oor" As a result, Ananda 8arga

as !anned and its mem!ers came under o%ten %ierce attac$s !y

8ar9ist organized mo!s here!y many mon$s and nuns ere

$illed" #ar$ar as imrisoned on trumed u charges, o%

having consired to $ill his %ormer disciles" The central

government o% 4ndira ;andhi and the :64 suorted the !ansand charges and !ecame active in sreading corro!orating

in%ormation a!out him and his movement internationally" Only

a%ter 4ndira ;andhi and her :ongress Party had !een voted out

o% o%%ice in 1+ as there a retrial" A%ter #ar$ar as cleared o%

the charges, he as released %rom rison in 1+/" At the outset

o% his seven years o% imrisonment #ar$ar as allegedly

oisoned !y the rison doctor !ut lived" rom then on he too$

to %asting, and su!sisted only on hal% a cu o% !utter mil$ ticea day" encycloedia>P"R"=#ar$ar)

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P6R6 .ar'ar 7$*$#08 in the mid to late $90s 7left8 around the

time he propounded Prout and after his release from jail in $4%6

#hortly !e%ore #ar$ar's release thousands o% 4ndian Proutistshad also !een released %rom years in ?ail %olloing the end o%

the nation=ide emergency" A main o!?ective o% the concocted

cases against #ar$ar as ell as o% the state o% emergency had

!een to crush the PROUT movement in 4ndia" 7ith reneed

enthusiasm and %ervor this movement no launched a %lourish

o% rograms and activities in 4ndia and around the orld"

4n the same year (1+/) Proutist Universal 4ndia u!lished asmall s5uare !oo$, 10910 cm2, 1*2 ages long, on the

Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT)" A sasti$a, the

ancient sym!ol o% siritual victory, in hite adorned the !right

orange %ront cover !eneath the !oo$'s titlePROUT Giita" The

!oo$'s considera!le oc$et=%riendliness and its comact

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as a ready comanion and handy re%erence %or students and

cadres o% PROUT"

Uon reading PROUT ;iita some 30 years later e decided torevise the te9t" #ome somehat la!yrinthine %ormulations in

the original have !een modernized and simli%ied" O!vious

misrints and sentences %ound anting have !een reaired"

istorical re%erences ith little current value have !een

revised, either !y !eing udated or deleted" A %e o% the !asic

concets have !een e9anded uon %or sa$e o% clarity" #tated

%acts and 5uotes have !een suorted ith sources laced in

%ootnotes" A %e illustrations ere also ut in" Along e %ound

that %or a ider glo!al audience a ne title ould !e in order,

hich !ecame The PROUT Companion"

4n this ay e thought it Proutistic to do our !it to advance this

authentic te9t %urther along history's magni%icent ath" 6y our

hum!le e%%ort e hoe to o%%er resent generations o% routists

an oortunity to e9erience and learn %rom the early,signi%icant contri!ution and intent o% one o% the %irst routists

ho used to receive in%ormation and teachings on PROUT

directly %rom #ar$ar" 4t is ith dee resect and gratitude that

e dedicate this hum!le e%%ort to the %ond memory o% the late

Acarya Raghunath Prasad, a ioneering PROUT thin$er and

dedicated discile o% #ar$ar"

The Pu!lishers

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Preface

@i$e all human !eings, social thin$ers too are e9onents o%their times and o% articular concerns" The environment and

conditions they live in certainly in%luence their reasoning" As

the una!ated march o% time continues, circumstances are

altered and changes suggested !y those thin$ers are gradually

made o!solete" 8oreover, an only artial realization o% human

ersonality, hoever sohisticated or em!ellished !y rhetoric,

has little, i% any, oer o% sustenance in a orld o% raid

sychic develoment" 4t is there%ore hardly surrising that

hen artisans o% such rigid, ea$ hilosohies ventured to

materialize their theoretical dogmas, it led to slavery,

e9loitation, !igotry and siritual !an$rutcy" 7herever such

develoments too$ root, it 5uite naturally resulted in

tremendous reactions" @et us !rie%ly loo$ at some e9amles

%rom recent history"

egel1,steeed in metahysical e9travaganza, conceived in his

deli!erations on li%e o% a utoian 4deaB" At the same time he

assumed the role o% loyal servant o% the Prussian #tate 2 and

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A!solute" is oonents called him the o%%icial hilosoherB

and they may not have !een un%air in saying so"

egel's dei%ication o% the state as emulated !y itler hoattemted to trans%orm the collective into a temle %or the

adoration o% myths o% his eole's racial and economic

suremacy" 7orld 7ar 2 history a!ounds in evidence o% the

torture and su%%ering !rought on humanity !y this tragic

devolution" egelian concets %ermented in 8ar9ist theory as

ell to cause the emergence o% a monstrous state dictatorshi"

The era %olloing the industrial revolution as one o%

emerging caitalism o%%ering rosects o% economic a%%luence

and e9anded vistas o% material leasure" conomic motivation

as an asiration and insiration as rationalized !y Adam

#mith" The social mentality had gron economy=oriented,

esecially in 7estern uroe and most o% all in ngland here

Carl 8ar9 educated himsel% %or a ne thin$ing" Preeminently

o% an economic ersuasion, shoc$ed !y the e9loitation and thedelora!le conditions o% la!or, and %ond o% history 8ar9

interreted the emerging industrial civilization as the natural

result o% class struggle"

Alying egelian dialectics to his on analysis o% history

8ar9 roclaimed that the entire human history as one o%

class struggle"B 4n his version o% totalitarian utoia, economic

%orce as the determining %actor that steered eole toardsclasslessness" The thin$er in 8ar9 remained imossi!ly anti=

middle=class and re%used to incororate any %iner and higher

human sentiments into the hoes %or heaven on arth" Perched

on materialist dogmas and heavy on %antastic claims o%

roletarian asiration 8ar9' insu!stantial concet o% or$ing

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class dictatorshi never !ecame a reality" -evertheless, as an

antiode to caitalist thought 8ar9ism too$ %irm root and as

a!le to create mass illusions such as. 4t is economic

circumstances that create consciousness,B and rom everyoneaccording to caacity to everyone according to need"B 4n the

communist countries human !eings remained economically

enslaved !y a theory o% economic determinism"

7ith time a deeening understanding o% 8ar9ism's imossi!le

amalgamation o% the roletarian and rogress !egan to

trans%orm the idea o% the economic !eing into sychic !eing

along ith the latter's mani%estations o% su!tler sentiments"

uman society today needs a ne social hilosohy a!le to

guide its emerging sychic !eing toards a still higher sycho=

siritual state" 4t %urther needs to smoothly ad?ust that lo%ty

state o% !eing ith an ever=changing sycho=siritual order

comrising ithin itsel% siritual, economic, olitical and the

other asects o% a rogressive society"

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This Era Needs PROUT

Ours is an era o% sychic e9ansion ith immenseotentialities and tremendous achievements" The 1+th century

and the early art o% the 20th sa an economic !earing

dominated !y matter and material %orces" 8ar9 as the

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had its on imact" instein conceived o% a %ourth dimension,

the dimension o% time, hich as a mental concetD the mental

measurement o% motivityo% action" To him the o!?ective orld

as a sace=time continuumB" The old concets o% sciencethus ent through revolutionary changes once again"

#u!tle scienti%ic achievements had ena!led ddington to

esta!lish that e9act science as only $noledge o% ointer=

reading on instruments" The scientists o% the time ent on and

e soon %ind ddington and Eeans*declaring emhatically that

the ultimate nature o% the universe is mental,B and that the

direct $noledge e ossess is the $noledge o% mental

states"B They %urther esta!lished that #een %rom the outside, as

it ere a living train, the universe is a collection o% molecules

in movement" 9erienced %rom inside it is a collection o%

mental states" The %irst vie gives us $noledge o% structure"

The second vie gives us $noledge o% nature or su!stance"B

The dee thin$ers o% science ere advancing, inch=!y=inch,toards the su!tler asects o% the :osmic henomenon"

Physicists and astrohysicists ere aroaching !oth the

internal asects o% atom and electron, and o% the mind and

consciousness" The succession o% %eelings hich constitutes a

erson's consciousness is the reality hich roduces in our

minds the ercetion o% the motions o% that erson's !rain,B

Eeans stated" To him the universe as a thought in the mind o%

8otivity is the oer o% initiating or roducing motion"* #ir Arthur #" ddington and #ir Eames " Eeans, 6ritish astroscientists o%

the early 20th century hose methodological de!ate made theoretical

astrohysics via!le" #ource. B#o #imle a Thing as a #tar. The

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;od" ddington and #chrodinger thought that determinism

should !e de%initely a!andoned, since in the motions o% single

atoms and electrons there seems to !e an element o% %ree ill"

To these scientists, evolution o% the :osmic henomenonaeared to !e a :osmic lay and the human !eing can only

lay a conscious art in the divine game !ut not really a%%ect it

in a %undamental ay"

There is a tremendous insirational aeal in this, hich this

era continues to a!sor! %or its %orard march" 4n this rocess

the emerging sychic !eing attained tremendous intellectual

oers ith hich it has con5uered still ne %orces o% nature,

reaching out into the universe, controlling !io=genetic

rocesses, etc" oever, intellect e9erts oer !ut oer is

!lind" 4t needs isdom to rovide it ith a roer direction"

:osmic orientation, or siritual guidance, is that guiding

isdom indicated !y the su!tler thin$ers o% science"

The Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) is a hay!lending o% that siritual isdom ith hysical attainments, or

su!?ective aroach ith o!?ective ad?ustment"B The %ive

%undamental rinciles o% PROUT, detailed in the ne9t chater,

teach us to !uild a social order devoid o% all tyes o%

e9loitation" They %ormulate the rogressive develoment o%

metahysical, sura=mundane and siritual otentialities o% the

individual as ell as o% collective !odies" 4n this ay human

society may roceed touch the silver lining !eteen themetahysical and the siritual"

rin #chrGdinger, Austrian theoretical hysicist, contri!utor to

5uantum mechanics"

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Until no the achievements o% science and technology,

agriculture and industry may have !rought a%%luence, and even

great ealth, to some" 6ut in a%%luence e su%%er" 4nstead o%

going in the direction o% a roer human order e are %ightingon the geo=olitical level ?ust li$e ancient humans living in

rimitive clans used to %ight and har!or re?udice against other

clans" 7eaons o% ar have changed !ut the motive remains

the same" To !uild an e9loitation=%ree economic=olitical

order and motivate that order to realize its ideals, a radical

social hilosohy o% ne siritual humanism is re5uired"

PROUT is that social hilosohy !estoed ith su!lime

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PROUT:

The FiveFundamental

Principles

Q. Why is it called Progressive Utilization Theory?

Our universe is a :osmic ro?ection" The :osmic One is the

:reator" ence the %inal onershi o% every o!?ect lies ith

#ureme :onsciousness, our :osmic %ather" 7e, as the children

o% the #ureme Progenitor, are all entitled to utilize the

roerties o% the entire universe as our common atrimony" As

limited living !eings in an ever=changing orld each one o% us

is more or less constricted in our outloo$ and in our a!ility to

deal ith the universe and our society" At the same time e are

in need o% sustaining our individual and collective e9istence"There%ore e have a constant motivation to rogress and

develo in order to realize still more o% the universe and its

ealth" ence ours is the theory o% rogressive utilization"

Q. Is this concept of Supreme Consciousness a sentimental

ideal or an eisting entity to !hom o!nership may "e

attri"uted?

uman !eings are sycho=sentimental entities" 7e cannotconceive o% a erson ithout sentiments" 4t is a articular

sentimental comosition that causes us to e9erience leasure

or ain in articular circumstances, and also ena!les us to

er%orm acts o% trivial and e9traordinary natures" #entimental

o!sessions are oer%ul motivating %orces !ehind economic

attachments and hoarding" An urge to accumulate more and

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more economic oer results in economic e9loitation" This is

the e9loiter's sychic disease" The su!tle and su!lime

sentiment o% the #ureme ather, :osmic %amily and common

atrimony ill motivate human !eings toards collective goodand $ee them %rom develoing %alse notions o% onershi and

conse5uent e9loitation"

8oreover, the attri!ution o% onershi to #ureme

:onsciousness is a %actual statement !ased on rational

deduction and siritual realization" indings o% science sea$

o% a nucleus in every structure" One cannot imagine a structure

ithout a nucleus, hether it is the atomic structure or the solar

system" The cosmological structure, comrising innumera!le

gala9ies must there%ore also have a nucleus, hich siritualists

call #ureme :onsciousness" According to scienti%ic

e9lanations given !y siritual cosmology, #ureme

:onsciousness is the causal %actor o% the eternal dynamism o%

the cosmological structure in the %orm o% centri%ugal and

centrietal %orces" 8oreover the %ive %undamental %actors o% thehysical universe H ethereal, aerial, luminous, li5uid and solid

H are the crude mani%estations o% the same #ureme

:onsciousness" These %ive states o% matter are the creation o%

#ureme :onsciousness out o% hich all other materials are

made !y human !eings" The resence o% the ill o% a conscious

entity, the ill o% #ureme :onsciousness, in the :osmic

henomenon is gaining accetance !y hysicists" These

hysicists strongly contend that the role o% determinism inhysical henomenon can !e ruled out most ro!a!ly as

indeendent ill oer aarently lays a de%inite role in the

:osmic henomenon"

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#iritualists o%%er to teach a sychological method here!y

every individual can erceive and e9erience the e9istence and

%unctioning o% #ureme :onsciousness" 6y devoting some time

and ersonal resources to inner or$ on a regular !asis,through certain e9eriments in our inner la!oratory,B human

!eings can easily realize the time=tested truth o% great masters

and modern science. 7e are art o% the 7hole, e are the

7hole" This is the #ureme Truth and the essence o% #ureme

:onsciousness The concet that the onershi o% all things lies

ith #ureme :onsciousness is there%ore a scienti%ic %act as

ell as a su!lime sentiment" This otent reality ill

revolutionize the hole concet o% social hilosohy in a ay

hitherto not conceived o% !y any social thin$er" PROUT

accets this as its %undamental concet"

Q. What are the fundamental principles of P#$UT?

PROUT has %ive %undamental rinciles %rom hich all

olicies concerning human society are to !e derived" Policies

o% utilization ill go on changing rogressively !ut not these%undamentals.

1" -o individual should !e alloed to accumulate any

hysical ealth ithout the clear ermission or

aroval o% the collective !ody"

2" There should !e ma9imum utilization and rational

distri!ution o% all mundane, sura=mundane andsiritual otentialities o% human society"

3" There should !e ma9imum utilization o% hysical,

metahysical and siritual otentialities o% unit and

collective !odies o% human society"

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&" There should !e roer ad?ustment amongst those

hysical, metahysical, mundane, sura=mundane and

siritual utilizations"

" The method o% utilization should vary in accordance ith

the changes in time, sace and erson and the

utilization should !e o% rogressive nature"

Q. %ccording to its first fundamental principle& P#$UT

allo!s accumulation "ut curtails it. Why?

Accumulation is a natural urge inherent in human !eings" A

comlete !an on that inherent sychic urge leads to social

tension and may even cause crac$s in the socioolitical setu"

As a matter o% %act, it as so e9erienced in some communist

countries" There, to counteract this natural urge under the

nic$names o% su!version, revision, diversion, etc", concerned

autocratic regimes resorted to dictatorial and reressive

measures in the name o% revolutions" Iet tensions (as reactions

to reression) continued to erut until communism %inally %ell"PROUT allos accumulation as ermitted !y the collective

!ody (see !elo a!out the collective !ody)"

Q. Why curtailment?

The entire universe is every!ody's ?oint roerty" All have the

same right o% use, i"e" right to en?oy and utilize the roducts o%

a roerty that he or she does not really on" The actual

onershi lies ith the #ureme" #ince the resources o% theuniverse, hoever vast they may !e, are in %act %inite, no one

has the right to a!use them" Those ho accumulate very much

ealth and hoard it directly curtail the hainess and

conveniences o% others" Their !ehavior is %lagrantly antisocial"

6ecause all hysical ealth is limited its accumulation cannot

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!e alloed !eyond a certain limit ithout commendation o%

society" 8oreover, the nature o% the social, educational,

economic and other olicies that ill !e chal$ed out in a

Proutistic society is such that the urge to accumulate hysicalealth ill ane as a conse5uence"

Q. What is the collective "ody and !hat !ill "e the

difference "et!een it and the elected government?

The collective !ody is the reresentation o% society at any

level, such as the village, regional or glo!al level, !y

individuals ho !y dint o% their siritual=ethical aroach,

service and sacri%ice are in intimate touch ith the eole's

asirations and their collective good"

These collective !odies ill not %unction li$e olitical arties

clamoring and gam!ling %or oer" @ust %or olitical oer

ma$es olitical leaders degenerate into demagogic oulists,

and demagoguery ma$es democracy degenerate into

dictatorshi"

Q. Why is there a need for collective "odies? %re the

present institutions of government not capa"le of "ringing

the all'round development of society?

4% the human !ody is a vehicle, then the human mind is its

driver and the mental roensities o% most o% us are li$e

untamed horses ulling the vehicle hither and tither" 7ithout

mental control human !eings are slave to their roensities" 4norder to contain those untamed horses a conscious and

determined e%%ort is needed to turn their course inard"

Otherise they ill drag us into a ild race o% e9trovert desires

and am!itions that ill eventually harm !oth us as ell as our

%ello !eings"

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The develoment o% a !alanced ersonality is ossi!le through

ethical o!servation and siritual ractices" A erson no matter

ho intellectually elevated cannot raise him= or hersel% a!ove

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human society" They remain holly unrelia!le hen it comes

to not utting their interests a!ove the common good"

PROUT conceives o% the emergence o% the collective !odies

throughout a netor$ o% civil society=!ased institutionsdedicated to sel%less service and the collective good" The

emergence o% such !enevolent collective !odies as lat%orms o%

genuine, !eloved leaders o% the eole ill !e the natural

conse5uence o% sycho=social churning" The governing !odies

on the other hand as elected institutions ill continue to

determine the mode and method o% utilizations (roounded in

PROUT's %irst %our %undamental rinciles) and ull them into

action H under the surveillance and moral authority o% the

collective !odies" 4n this ay PROUT di%%erentiates clearly

!eteen the to"

Q. What is meant "y maimum utilization and rational

distri"ution of mundane& supra'mundane and spiritual

potentialities?

7hatever ealth and resources are inherent in the crude(mundane), su!tle (sura=mundane) and causal (siritual)

orlds should !e develoed and used %or the !ene%it o% all

unites" The develoment o% the resources hidden in the %ive

%undamental elements, i"e" solid, li5uid, luminous, aerial and

ethereal (sace), ill !e accomlished through the media o%

100 J honest use and sincere e%%orts" uman !eings ill have

to e9lore land, sea and sace in all earnestness to discover and

utilize the re5uisite materials" #cience and technology are to !eevolved accordingly" 4n the evolution o% the use o% thermal

oer e are moving on in our e9loration o% the usage o%

solar, ocean and ind energy and this utilization ill have to

gro more and more rogressive"

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4n the sura=mundane sheres, too, human !eings ill continue

to e9lore the cultural, ethical and intellectual otentialities o%

the universe" 4n5uiries and advancements into su!tler realms

ill continue as human !eings get to understand more o% therole o% the mental and sycho=siritual in all human a%%airs"

The ealth e9lored and amassed !y human society in this ay

must !e rationally distri!uted ith roer ad?ustment and

consideration" Aart %rom meeting the indisensa!le minimum

necessities o% everyone, re5uirements o% the meritorious ill !e

$et in mind" 4n this ay there ill !e harmony !eteen

availa!ility and necessity, e%%ecting congruous groth ithin

and among the various sections o% society"

Q. What is meant "y maimum utilization of physical&

metaphysical and spiritual potentialities of the unit and the

collective "ody of human society?

The develoment and utilization o% the collective !ody,

collective mind and collective siritual !earing have to !ee%%ected" The collective good lies in the good o% individuals

hile the individual good lies in that o% the collectivity" 4n

order to !ene%it the collective !ody, its individuals ill !e

rovided ith hysical essentials and amenities on strength o%

their urchasing oer earned in emloyment" PROUT's ise

emloyment and earning olicies ill secure the otimal

develoment o% the hysical otential o% the individual"

A roer sense o% collective and cororate li%e H a sense o%

service and sacri%ice !eyond education H ill evolve and

develo the metahysical asect o% individuality and

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Aa$ening o% sirituality and ethical drive in individuals ill

instill the collective ith siritual and moral values ithout

hich the !ac$!one o% the collectivity ould !rea$" One or

to oer%ul, learned or ise ersons, or one or tosiritualists are no guarantee %or advancement and rogress o%

the hole society" -or can they create that hysico=sycho=

siritual stance !y hich those three=%old otentialities o% the

unit and collective !odies ill get their ma9imum develoment

and utilization" The mind and sel% o% every individual have the

otential %or limitless e9ansion and develoment" That

otentiality has got to !e harnessed and !rought to %ruition"

Only then can 5ualitative change ta$e lace and e ill see a

human society %ree %rom e9loitation, distrust and discord"

Q. What does P#$UT imply "y propounding that there

should "e a proper ad(ustment amongst the physical&

metaphysical& mundane& supramundane and spiritual

utilizations?

The social and siritual ursuits o% an individual should !e!alanced so that harmony is maintained among his or her

hysical, mental and siritual asects" The lac$ o% ad?ustment

among these inherent %actors o% human !eings results in

losided develoment o% !oth ersons and societies" The

numerous instances o% material groth leading to indisciline

and %rustration in the 7est and neglect o% such at the altar o%

ritualism and dogmatic religion in the ast sea$ %or

themselves" The dread%ul result o% the removal o% ancientma9ims o% divine authority under communist rule H its crude

inhumanity H roved ell the imortance o% roer all=round

ad?ustment" 4% the mentors o% those societies had realized this

much, human society could have !een saved %rom !loodshed

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and horrors rought and carried out only %or the sa$e o% the

material and the hysical evolution o% society"

The la o% ad?ustment and arallelism %urther stiulates thathile involving a erson ho is hysically, mentally and

siritually develoed, society ill %ollo a ell=!alanced

olicy o% e5uity and %air lay" #ociety ill utilize the su!tlest

otentiality, the siritual, to its ma9imum, and the cruder

saringly" #imilarly, in case o% a erson ho is hysically and

mentally develoed, the latter otentiality is to !e utilized the

most" #ociety ill utilize the hysical otentiality more in a

erson ho is mostly hysically develoed" The same goes %or

entire societiesD they di%%er too, ?ust as individuals do as regards

the three=%old otentialities H hysical, mental and siritual"

7hen an individual ossesses mostly !aser otentialities, there

ill !e an endeavor to instil in him or her the su!tler

otentialities through education, siritual teaching and

conducive comany"

Q. Under !hose control and guidance can society achieve

maimum development of the utilizations and ad(ustment

among them?

#ocial control should !e in the hands o% siritual asirants ho

are intelligent as ell as !old" 4t should not !e in the hands o%

those ho are only !rany or those ho are only !rave, or

those ho are only smart or intelligent, or those ho are onlyorldly=ise" Only courageous, !old and intelligent

siritualists can ma$e society !ring a!out the ma9imum

develoment o% all otentialities and ensure a hay and

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Q. What does P#$UT mean "y stating that the utilizations

should "e of progressive nature?

-othing in the universe is stationary" very o!?ect is su!?ect to

changes in time, lace and erson" Their value may change!ecause they ay are !eing used is changing and !ecause the

necessities o% li%e continue to change" 7hat as great

yesterday may !e ordinary today and o% no use tomorro"

#imilarly an idea that as o% no signi%icance yesterday may !e

thought rovo$ing today and on every!ody's mind tomorro"

Progress is the $eynote o% e9istence" #tagnation is death" As

such one has to !e rogressive in the ractical use o% any

o!?ect, any need, any concet"

Ceeing in vie the idea o% rogress and advancement, e

have to ma$e gradually greater and greater use o% human

otentiality" 4% a machine can do the or$ that ten men may do

ith hammers so let it, and let those ten ersons move on to

greater utilization o% their active and slum!ering otentials" To

romote the use o% tools and aaratus o% an earlier era in thato% a more develoed one is not a sign o% rogress" #nags and

o!stacles o% any size may at any time cro u to o!struct

society's rogressive march roelled !y dynamic ideation and

rogressive imagination" #uch o!stacles must !e %aced

courageouslyD humanity has to march on and on through clash

and cohesion" Those eole ho do not understand this !asic

truth ant to remain entom!ed in old conventions and narro

sentiments" #uch torid ersons have no lace in a dynamicsociety" 4n %act, their narro sychic comle9es $ee them

aay %rom the realities ith the result that they are comelled

to slin$ aay and !e doomed to o!livion a%ter having done

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PROUT stands %or increased utilization o% eole's various

resources and not their unemloyment" 4ts roduction olicy is

consumtion=oriented and not ro%it=motivated" 7ithin Prout's

overarching %rameor$ o% ma9imum utilization and rationaldistri!ution it ill ensure that eole's individual and collective

talents and otentials are continuously alied %or the

hainess and good o% all, and not %or someone's ro%it"

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end, the social hilosohy must have a scienti%ic economic

thought"

Political motivation !ased on an ideological concet and aolitical structure in the %orm o% an organization !ased on

ethics and virtue are essential %or true socioeconomic

develoment" The domination o% olitical motivation devoid o%

the a!ove %actors only roduces 8achiavellian tacticians and

oulists" ither o% these corrut the socioolitical structure"

4nstead o% involving eole in society !uilding in a real ay,

seudo=democrats, socialists and social democrats ollute the

sycho=social atmoshere !y nurturing evil and narro

emotions" Their goal is to ultimately esta!lish their crony rule

or ersonal dictatorshi" The victim is society, su%%ering %rom

torture and e9loitation" To save society %rom such torments

and travail and to ensure its ever=groing socioeconomic

develoment, roer olitical thought is essential"

Prout contains all these %our asects, outlined in the %olloing%our chaters, o% a ell=evolved social hilosohy"

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Philosoph!

Consciousness is the .upreme subjectivity and all othermundane subjectivities or objectivities are mere blendin(s of

the absolute subjectivity6 P"R" #ar$ar/

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Q. )o! does consciousness manifest itself as matter?

Pure consciousness is the su!stantiating, itnessing entity

hile the oerative rincile (the %orce o% creation) mani%ests

the act o% creation" These to are inaliena!le concomitantentities ?ust li$e the to sides o% a iece o% aer" -one o% them

can e9ist ithout the other" :onsciousness is the itnessing

entity o% hatever the oerative rincile creates, ?ust li$e e

are a!le to re%lect on our orld and its activities"

The oerative rincile creates !y alying three !inding

rinciles. sentient, mutative and static" That hich gives a

ure 4=%eeling is the sentient, hile that hich instills a sense o%

doershi is the mutative rincile" 4n the :osmic mind such

sentient consciousness e9resses itsel% in ure 4B=%eeling or

intuitional mind. 4 e9ist in all thisKB 8utative consciousness is

e9erienced as ego, the 4B that relates to action, %eelings,

roerties, etc", such as in meB and mineB" 4 did itKB, is one

e9ression o% such egoD 7ithout me it could not have

haenedKB, is another cruder"

A still greater imact o% the static rincile causes the

mani%estation o% crude or comlete o!?ectivization o%

consciousness" This is the crudest o!?ective counterart o% the

su!?ective :osmos"B12This condition o% consciousness is called

mind=stu%%" 4t has a %orm, and that hich causes it to ta$e %orm

is the static rincile o% the %orce o% creation" An e9ression o%

this state o% consciousness ould !e. The stu%% 4 continue togenerate gives value to my e9istence"B ere crude o!?ects have

!ecome more imortant than !oth the su!tler ego=%eeling or the

still much su!tler ure 4B=%eeling"

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The continued imact o% the static rincile on :osmic mind=

stu%% causes it to undergo %urther crudi%ication" As a result

ethereal (satial), aerial, luminous, li5uid and solid %actors H

the %ive states o% matter H are created as a result o% the gradualcrudi%ication o% the :osmic mind" To conclude, matter is a

crudi%ied %orm o% consciousness under the imact o% the

!inding rinciles o% the oerative rincile (the %orce o%

creation)"

Q. )o! do unit minds *microcosms+ emerge?

As the imact o% the !inding rinciles gros stronger and still

stronger on the solid %actor (such as in the case o% a iece o%

stone) the internal %riction ithin that crude structure

aroaches its ma9imum" The clash or lay o% these %orces is

$non as oer or energy" very solid o!?ect contains

otential vital %orce in the %orm o% their rimal energies" These

energies may !e latent or mani%est to various degrees" They are

there, in eretual creative e9istence, as a result o% the interlay

!eteen the sentient, mutative and static rinciles" Fital%orce is the eternal game !eteen the cosmic cause and its

crudest e%%ect"B13

4n rimal energy to determinate %orces are active H one

centrietal and one centri%ugal" 6eteen them there is a

constant clash here either o% those to active %orces may in"

4% the inard=oriented, interial %orce ins, i"e" i% the resultant

%orce haens to !e introvert in character, a nucleus is %ormedithin the solid %actor" There!y a solid structure is created" This

interial resultant is $non as vital energy or vital %orce" 4% the

centrietal %orce succeeds hoever the structure ill

13 rom2dea and 2deolo(y (1++), #aincara and PratisaincaraB, Ananda

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disintegrate or e9lode, as in the case o% numerous celestial

!odies"

The mani%estation o% vital %orce deends on to essentialconditions" irstly, the resultant o% vital energy must !e an

interial %orce" #econdly, there must !e a congenial environment

%or the living structure to emerge" 4n its environment the %ive

%undamental %actors o% sace, air, light, li5uid and solid matter

must !e %ound in re5uisite roortions and conditions in order

%or the structure to come alive"

Fital energy is the resultant interial %orce" 7herever and

henever ortions o% a hysical !ody, such as a iece o% stone,

gets odered don as a result o% clash into su!tler %actors,

su!tler than all the %ive %undamental %actors, the result is a unit

mind, or microcosm" 7ithin a unit structure, its mind is a

chemical reaction o% hysical clash !ut that hysical o!?ect is a

creation o% :osmic mind"B1&

Under the imact o% hysical clash, sychic clash and attraction

o% the ;reat, microcosms evolve and gradually !ecome su!tler

and su!tler" 4n evolutionary terms hysical !odies H unicellular

and multicellular structures H evolve !ecause the minds in them

re5uire a !ody %or their e9ression and such unit minds alays

re5uire ne and more evolved !odies %or their continuous

evolution" The state o% evolution o% microcosms reaches a stage

hen the intuitional state H the ure 4B=%eeling H o%microcosms surasses the ego hich has already surassed the

cruder o!?ective ortion, i"e" crude matter" Thus intuition gets

%ully develoed and !ecomes at this stage the human mind"

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6oth hilosohically and linguistically1human !eing imlies a

!eing that e9resses a clearly re%lected consciousness" As such

human !eings %orm a secies 5ualitatively di%%erent %rom any

receding secies on the ladder o% evolution" The re=humansecies are guided !y nature or instinctive imulses hereas

human !eings have the caacity to guide their instinctive

imulses"

Thus e see that the e9istence o% hysical o!?ects are the result

o% evolutionary rocesses in the :osmic mind, %rom the

su!tlest o% the su!tle toards the crudest o% the crude"

urthermore, living organisms come into !eing as a result o%

internalization o% rimal energy in crude o!?ects so that unit

mind=stu%% emerges ithin elementary organisms" 4n the great

:osmic chain created matter comes %rom :osmic

consciousness and living !eings come %rom matter as their

minds H the essence o% their !eing H emerges out o% solid

o!?ects as a result o% the lay o% creative energies there" Things

that are alive are there%ore not %irst and %oremost hysical!eings !ut mind !eings" They are in e9istence !ecause they

have a mind, hoever crude or su!tle that mind may !e" 4n

%act, the there is mind in everything" 4n the case o% living

!eings this %act is re%lected in he resective crudeness or

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Q. )o! a"out the "iological evolution of species from

amoe"a to human "eing?

As already discussed, microcosms evolve under certain

conditions" 8ind, according to its stage o% develoment, needsa hysical medium %or its roer e9ression o% the sychic

momenta inherent in it" The more the mind is evolved, the

more evolved and comle9 a medium it needs" There%ore the

cellular comosition o% hysical !odies including the nervous

system evolves in tandem ith the evolution o% mind" The

struggle %or e9istenceB !ecomes one o% the essential %actors

causing hysical and sychic clash %or the very develoment

and evolution o% the microcosm" Through such clash and

cohesion, or stress and strain the microcosm evolves %rom the

state o% an amoe!a to the comle9 state o% a human !eing" The

su!tler the sychic momentum o% microcosm, the more

comle9 the cellular comosition o% its hysical !ody"

Q. Why can,t it "e said that the cell or the physical "ody is

predominant in evolution and not the mind?:ommon e9erience is the !est ?udge" The develoment o%

medical science has !rought us to conclude that many diseases

are sychosomatic" The disease emerges in the mind %irst" 7e

also %ind that su!tler thoughts evolve !rain cells, cause

secretions %rom higher glands, and change the luster o% %acial

e9ressions, so evident in saintly ersonalities"

#uose a discussion ta$es lace" 7hich is redominant Hmental or hysical %acultiesM 7ho ill ?udgeM Then, ho is the

authorityM 4t is the mind that dominates and the mind hich is

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The dominant %actor, mind, a%%ects evolution redominantly"

The secondary %actor, the hysical, lays a minor role,

irresective o% ho much that hysical !ody may seem to !e a

rime reality to living !eings in moments o% hunger, eating,tension, rela9ation, etc"

Q. What are the other -ualitative differences "et!een a

human microcosm and other microcosms?

As already indicated human mind can guide its on instinctive

imulses hich are sychic momenta carried %orard %rom the

ast" The loer secies on the other hand are guided !y their

instincts and not !y a %urther develoed and su!tler mind" 4n

human !eings the %uller e9ression o% intuitional mind

roduces su!tler consciousness" They ossess a %ree ill that

li!erate them to either ursue higher and su!lime ursuits o%

li%e li$e siritual ractices, $eeing themselves engaged in the

thought o% the #ureme, or to degenerate into vice, the

satis%action o% !aser roensities, and the thin$ing o% mean

ideas"

uman mind can realize the reality that all e9ternal

o!?ectivities mani%ested in the sace=time=continuumB are

only the mani%estation o% #ureme :onsciousness" This

a!solute reality is a su!?ect o% realization only %or human

!eings" 4t remains no ?ust an intellectual myth or e9travaganza

%or the true see$er" aving attained the highest evolutionary

state in the :osmic henomenon, human !eings do have asiritual duty and resonsi!ility to rogressively utilize the

mundane, suramundane, hysical and metahysical

otentialities o% the unit and collective !odies and also to !ring

a!out the rational distri!ution o% all otentialities %or the

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Theor! of "istor!

Q. What is history?istory is an e9ression o% collective sychology" very event

in the historical henomenon is an e9ression o% this collective

sychology"

6y dint o% a oer%ul sychic momentum and e9anded

vi!rational aves a great ersonality or a oer%ul movement

may e9ert a mighty imact on social movements or the

collective sychology" The social syche ould then undergo a

change" As a result the collective sychology ould e9ress a

ne historical henomenon, oularly $non as historical

events"

Q. Is collective psychology a psychic myth? If not& !hat

factors contri"ute to forming collective psychology?

8ind is not a myth" 4t is a sychic momentum, a real entity,mani%esting itsel% through nervous systems and hysical

structures" #imilarly, collective sychology is the collective

sychic momenta e9ressing itsel% in social henomena"

#i9 %actors contri!ute to the %ormation o% a collective

sychology.

1" #iritual hilosohy2" #iritual ractice

3" #ocioeconomic theory

&" #ocial outloo$

" #criture

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The strength or ea$ness o% a social order deends uon the

resence or a!sence o% these %actors in a society" At one time

Pro=4slamic Ara!s had a great vital %orce created !y a strong

social outloo$, hich the Persian culture lac$ed" The Persianshoever ossessed a higher hilosohy emanating a su!tler

culture" The Ara!s attac$ed Persia and con5uered it !ut ere

themselves ersianized in contact ith the su!tler Persian

culture" 4n their %urther march into 4ndia it as these

ersianized Ara!s ho came in contact ith the highly evolved

4ndian culture" This %act is %ound evidently e9ressed in

architectural monuments constructed during the 8uslim rule in

4ndia here one o!serves a com!ination o% 4ndian and Persian

cultures mani%ested in these monuments" 8any such e9amles

may !e %ound in the ages o% orld history deicting the

signi%icance o% the si9 %actors or so$es o% social develoment"

Q. )o! does collective psychology cause social dynamics?

4n our relative orld nothing is static, everything is dynamic"

Figor is the inherent characteristic o% every entity, includingthe social order, hich undergoes change ?ust as the dominant

sychic momentum or the collective sychology changes"

#ocioolitical systems evolve or are trans%ormed to ta$e ne

and neer %orms" 4n the same ay collective sychologies or

%undamental social values change" Ta$e %or instance the eriod

in history hen the collective sychology revered the !rave

and arrior=minded" The olitical system o% those days evolved

%rom tri!al li%e to %eudalism" :ourt oets sang the raise o% themuscle o% courageous tri!al chie%s and %eudal $ings" The strong

arriors ere the undisuted masters o% the land under hose

regime the economy %lourished according to rules %ramed !y

those arrior heroes" O% course, the arrior had the roud

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see$ing, %ear=soa$ed collective sychology toards arrior=

minded values o% li%e" A slave's mentality is dominated !y

matter" 4t gets easily overoered !y the static rincile" This

means that the slaves' collective mind is easily overcome !yinstinctual imulses" ence it is una!le to organize a society to

any arecia!le degree" :onversely, a arrior asires to

dominate matter under the insiration o% higher sentiments" e

or she can there%ore move %orard and achieve goals" Thus the

collective sychology under arrior rule underent a

signi%icant change %rom enslavement !y matter toards its

con5uest" The age o% the arrior arrived triumhantly to the

slaves' total adoration"1*

4n the course o% time, collective sychology changed againD

intellect and not muscle came to esta!lish its domination"

8ighty arriors as ell as the era's scritures recognized the

mental oers o% intellectuals" A mythical aura o% o!scure

mysticism as oven around them" The socio=olitical system

again underent a corresonding change" The 8iddle Ageso%%er many e9amles to sustain this %act"

1* ere the meaning o% slave is not slave o% someoneB !ut slave to matter,

someone ho is not a!le to rise a!ove matter" #omeone ho is enslaved

!y another may or may not !e slave to matter" All the %our terms H slave,

arrior, intellectual and ac5uisitor (caitalist) H here ertain, amongst

other %actors, to their resective orientation toards matter" 7arriors

rise a!ove matter !y their hysical %orce and there!y rule the slaves"

4ntellectuals control matter directly !y their intellect and>or indirectly

through the arriors and slaves" The ac5uisitors control matter !y

securing onershi to it and there!y su!mit the other three H slaves,

arriors and intellectuals H as ell" 4n his seminal or$ ;uman .ociety

Part *P"R" #ar$ar deals e9haustively ith the dynamics o% these %our

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:ollective sychology undergoes a %urther change" The

!ourgeoisie !y dint o% their economic ealth elevate

themselves to great and imortant ositions in society" The

value o% money dominates the collective sychology" The oetno sings. All virtues are ith the ealthy, money ma$es the

mare go"B The valor o% arriors and even the shar minds o%

intellectuals lic$ the silver=shoesB o% the unscruulous

ac5uisitors o% economic oer" The socioolitical system once

again shaes itsel% to suit the interest o% a ne grou

sychology, that o% the caitalists" Our on recent history

deicts this very henomenon"

9loitation !y raacious caitalists degrades most o% the

intellectual and arrior=minded to a state o% slavery" They sell

their la!or H intellectual and hysical resectively H to serve

the interests over the caitalists ho ay them so that they may

earn a livelihood" 6ut the economically e9loited intellectuals

and arriors, ho are !y no incororated into the vast mass

o% slaves under caitalist rule, are di%%erent %rom thearchetyical slave ho are o% a most su!missive mentality and

there%ore are the genuine mem!ers o% the economic slave class"

The intellectuals and arriors ho %eel the !runt o%

e9loitation !ut still someho maintain their original values,

!ecome disgruntled slaves and vanguards o% the antithesis that

eventually leads to slave revolution" Once uon a time eole

o% their $ind ere not at all any!ody's slave" And their inherent

values still deserve !etter"

Those ho cause the slave revolution are not assive=minded

ersons" They are incessant %ighters ho !elieve in non=

comromising struggle against the ruthless e9loitation o% the

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the vital ?uice o% the social tree" These disgruntled slaves have

the shar intellect o% the intellectuals and the %earless mentality

o% the arriors" 6y their siritual insiration they are destined

to con5uer and to achieve victory" They have no desire tosuccum! to cleverly maniulated strategies o% comromise

ith the caitalist mentality o% e9loitation" Their com!ined

oer%ul motivation H the resurrection o% no!le arrior and

astute intellectual values H causes a change in the collective

sychology and a ne era emerges %olloing the slave

revolution" Thus the social dynamic continues"

Physical clash, sychic clash and attraction %or the ;reat H

individually and collectively H cause a change in either one or

more o% the si9 %actors o% collective sychology mentioned at

the !eginning o% this chater" A orld ar causes a terri!le

hysical clash and there!y a change in the concet o%

socioeconomic ideas and social mentality" The collective

sychology changes a lot" or instance, a%ter 7orld 7ar 1

olitical imerialist countries $et on roagating imerialism!ut 7orld 7ar 2 gave that idea a rude shoc$" As a result

countries so %ar $et under olitical su!?ugation attained

olitical %reedom" A ne age o% rising democracy sread

around the orld" 6ut the era o% economic imerialism still

continued ithin this very %orm o% humanly decorated

neocolonialism" This e9loitation ill ither aay only hen

the mentality o% economic e9loitation gives ay to the

su!lime concet o% a ne siritual humanism"

Psychic clash is caused !y the emergence o% ne ideas and

ideals o% siritual hilosohy, socioeconomic theory or social

outloo$" #uch sychic clashes are e%%ective only i% the ideals

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Attraction %or the ;reat is raidly accelerated !y those great

recetors and masters ho !oth reach siritual hilosohy

and teach a ractical ay as ell as have it racticed as ell"

Thus the recetor, ho !y his versatile :osmic genius can!ring a revolutionary change in all the si9 %actors ould

undou!tedly cause a tremendous siritual=sychic usurge in

the collective sychology o% the entire human society and !ring

%orth a su!lime revolution" A ne human society ould

emerge" The cimmerian dar$ness o% the inter=lunar night ill

disaear and the ne day o% the ne sunrise ill a$e u the

ne orld"

Q. What is the difference "et!een varnaand class?

>arnais a #ans$rit ord %or the sycho=social classi%ication o%

human society, hereas class is an economic concet" The %our

varnas o% Prout's theory o% the social cycle are slave (shudrain

#ans$rit), arrior ('s=attriya), intellectual (vipra) and caitalist

(vaeshya)" Prout's concet o% varnas de%ines human !eings as

sycho=social !eings, hereas the concet o% class categorizeshumans as economic !eings" The sycho=social !eing can

con5uer e9ternal circumstances and cause the emergence o% a

congenial environment %or social rogress, hereas the

economic !eing is slave to the %orce o% economic determinism

H a !eggar and a !east"

4n Prout's theory o% the social cycle, hich is a theory o%

sycho=social evolutions and revolutions, varna !ecomes aractical concet that leads human !eings to the su!limity o%

siritual humanism" 4n contrast, the concet o% economic class

is a myoic dogma that has caused economic slavery, sychic

regimentation and siritual !an$rutcy"

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Q. Is the change from an era of domination of a particular

varna to another evolutionary or revolutionary?

As discussed earlier the change in the collective sychology is

a natural henomenon in hich rulers or administrators shouldchange accordingly" armony !eteen the sychology o%

rulers and the eole is characteristic o% the state o% synthesis"

7hereas hen the sychology o% rulers is %ound to !e su%%ering

%rom sel%=centered o!sessions, it lags !ehind and denies the

eole social rogress" A %ormer synthesis degenerates into

thesis and an anti=thesis is generated in the %orm o% the

emerging e9loited grou that truly reresents the asirations

o% the collective sychology" Thesis must succum! to the

%orces o% antithesis, !ringing %orth a ne synthesis and a ne

era" This may occur as a natural course"

At times hoever the movement o% the social cycle %rom one

era to the ne9t is the result o% the alication o% %orce" #uch

change is $non as evolution" 4n evolution the change does not

come as a matter o% natural course !ut is caused !y thealication o% some %orce"

4% %or instance the arrior era gives ay to intellectual rule as a

natural course o% events it ould !e a natural change and not

evolution" 6ut i% the emerging intellectuals have had to aly

%orce, it ould !e evolution" #uch a change is evolutionary"

At times rulers o% a articular %iendish e9loitative disositionrolong their maneuvering to maintain their domination at any

cost" They may do so even hen the collective sychology has

undergone a tremendous change under the imact o% oer%ul

sychic momenta created !y the %orces o% antithesis" 4n such

circumstances a stouter alication o% might or %orce !ecomes

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a must" 4% not, the time %or change to occur may !ecome so

long that the %lesh and !lood o% the great ma?ority o% society

gets suc$ed u and devoured !y the e9loiters" The alication

o% a stronger %orce shortens the duration o% change and societyis li!erated %rom raacious e9loitation" #uch a tremendous

change is termed revolution"

Ta$e the case o% the caitalist varna dee into its hase o%

e9loiting the other varnas" 4n order to carry on e9loitation

this grou o% raacious caitalists may orchestrate a lu9ury=

oriented segment o% intellectuals and arriors to serve their

ne%arious ends and maneuver the entire economic=olitical

system to serve their interests" :ircumstances may then arise

here the disgruntled slaves H dontrodden intellectuals and

arriors H ill have to aly stronger might in order to e%%ect

real change" #uch a dramatic and articular %orce%ul rocess o%

change is revolution"

Q. What are the characteristics of counter'evolution andcounter'revolution?

According to the las o% social dynamics human society

rogresses %rom the arrior to the intellectual era, %rom the

intellectual to the caitalist era, and %rom the caitalist through

a slave revolution into the ne9t cycle o% social !uilding

commencing ith the arrior era" The change %rom one era to

another is not an a!rut occurrence !ut goes through a rocess

o% gradual change" At the oint o% entering their resectiverogressive eras arriors, intellectuals and caitalists are not

that e9loitative" At that early stage they themselves are

har!ingers o% constructive change and humanist ideals, moving

ith the rogressing collective sychology o% their times" 4t is

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!ecome e9loitative" Therea%ter the intensity o% e9loitation

continues to gro to suit their intensity o% their meanness"

There are circumstances hen the alication o% reactionary%orce ma$es an era revert to the receding one" #uch change is

called counter=evolution, %or e9amle ith the esta!lishment o%

arrior rule a%ter a eriod o% intellectual rule"

#imilarly, i% ithin a short eriod o% time or !y the alication

o% tremendous %orce an era is %orced !ac$, it is called counter=

revolution"

There are circumstances hen certain %orces cause counter=

evolution or counter=revolution !ut the era does not change

5ualitatively" Rather it remains the same even a%ter it gets

reverted" or instance, i% under caitalist rule a articular grou

o% caitalists dominates to $ee its caucus sureme then

another grou o% caitalists may under terri!le circumstances

cause a change o% rule" The masses may %eel temorarilyrelieved due to such e9ternal change !ut ith such a change o%

rule the system o% e9loitation does not change" #uch aarent

change may !e termed counter=evolution" 4% such change ere

!rought on 5uic$ly or !y the alication o% tremendous %orce it

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Q. Why do the forces of change operating after counter'

evolution and counter'revolution "ecome more aggressive

and dynamic?

-aturally, as mentioned a!ove, due to the lust %or oer o% themasters o% reactive change, ho are more or less devoid o%

ethics, virtue and !enevolence, e9loitation in the a$e o%

counter=evolutions and counter=revolutions continues to gro"

ence the masses 5uic$ly !ecome disillusioned since they %ind

the ne economic=olitical circumstances more oressive and

torturous than the old"

Q. What is revolution in its true sense and !hen does it

"ecome a must?

:ircumstances %or real revolution rien hen the social

environment, under the ressure o% vested interests, !ecomes

highly e9loitative" 7hen traditional %aiths, ritualistic dogmas,

current economic, olitical, cultural and other institutions all

tend, or are used, to !ind rather than li!erate human !eings, the

enslaved !ring a!out their revolution" This haens hen the%iendish motivations inherent in the e9loiters' vested motives

have reigned sureme %or too long" At that critical oint there is

no other ay out %or the e9loited than either to continue ith

their ever=deteriorating slavery until death or do something

radical in order to live"

4t is the disgruntled, value=oriented (arrior and intellectual)

slaves ho %eel a revolutionary urge" The general masseshoever have !een continuously conditioned to remain %aith%ul

to the e9loiters" 4n this grave situation an ordinary erson

have tyically lost his or her dynamism and genuine interest in

li%e" rustration, assivity, hysical and mental degeneration

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!oth" :aitalists !uy the intellect o% intellectuals, the valor o%

arriors and the hysical oer o% the slaves to serve their

on ends"

4ntellectuals $ee u the aearances o% a valid socio=

economic=olitical system ith hich the caitalists can

e9loit even more" The unholy alliance o% religious dogmatic

ritualism and economic rule serves the caitalists ith arriors

guarding their treasury" A tremendous control over the

collective sychology is maintained !y the caitalists" 4ts

aggressive ro%it=orientation and shred e9ercise o% money=

oer $ee the masses su!merged in an ocean o% decetion

created !y religious=olitical and seudo=cultural slogan=

ma$ing"

7ho can e9ress a more oer%ul and su!tler sychic

momentum than caitalismM Only those ho ossess a stronger

sychic oer made su!tle and su!lime !y siritual intuitional

insiration instilled ith the ideation o% the #ureme"

:omrehensive e9erimentation and scienti%ic research H such

as e9tra=sensory ercetion (#P), sycho$inesis, astral= and

energy !odyor$, and mystic consciousness H all sea$ o% the

amazing oers o% the sycho=siritual henomenon"

Techni5ues and ractices leading to higher states o%

consciousness ena!le human !eings to mani%est tremendous

siritual momentum" #uch an occurrence is not a myth !utactually a ractical achievement" #iritual asirants

mani%esting their oer%ul siritual momentum %or the good

and el%are o% all can con5uer the e9loitative sychic

momentum o% the unscruulous caitalist rule" They can the

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emergence o% an e9loitation=%ree social order that ill last %or

a long time"

Q. %re revolutions al!ays "loody?A revolution is not necessarily alays !lood=soa$ed, yet at

times !loodshed is a must" As reviously discussed, disgruntled

slaves, consisting o% intellectuals and arriors, are the

vanguards o% the slave revolution" They engage themselves

relentlessly in causing the slave revolution" 7here such a

revolution is dominated !y intellectual %orce it tends to !e non=

sanguinary !ut i% under ressure o% circumstances arrior %orce

comes to the %ore then the revolution ill involve !loodshed"

Q. Who are sadvipras?/

#adviras are those siritual moralist ersonalities ho ant to

ut an end to sin and vice !y the alication o% their oer"

They are not %ound on the erihery o% the social cycle, hich

continues to move %rom one era to the ne9t" 4nstead they

remain as the cycle's controllers at its hu! or nucleus" Theycontinue to %ight evil and e9loitative olicies"

Q. When do sadvipras emerge and !hat is their role?

As seen earlier the slave revolution re5uires the imact o% a

oer%ul siritual %orce" Only sadviras can sustain such a

tremendous initiative" As such their emergence is needed"

7hen some o% the disgruntled slaves ardently engage

themselves in cosmic ideation they undergo a articularrocess o% sycho=siritual churning" As they are ut through

the tortures o% economic e9loitation and olitical hardshis

1 Asadviprais one hose intellect remains em!edded in cosmic truth, a

declassi%iedB erson in hom none o% the %our varnas dominates" rom

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that onder%ul con%luence o% cosmic ideation and sycho=

siritual churning causes the emergence o% sadviran

leadershi out o% this grou o% disgruntled slaves" #adviras

never emerge amongst lu9urious and leasure=see$ing utoians!ut %rom dontrodden, disgruntled slaves"

As long as a slave revolution is not materialized sadviras ill

continue to strengthen the %orces o% antithesis and guide" They

ill continue to e9hort the disgruntled slaves to !ring a!out the

revolution and li!erate society %rom the clutches o%

e9loitation" A%terard they remain at the hu! o% the social

cycle" rom there they continue to insire the develoment o% a

sadviran society !ased on PROUT's invinci!le rinciles

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The social cycle is an ever=revolving henomenon here a

certain collective sychology or varna redominates in a

articular age" 4% a arrior in the arrior age, an intellectual in

the intellectual age, or a caitalist in the caitalist age goes onto !ecome a raacious e9loiter instead o% a %air administrator,

the !ounden duty o% sadviras ill !e to rotect the honest and

the e9loited and !ring the dishonest and raacious e9loiter

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Q. Will the characteristics of the era after the slave

revolution "e the same as they !ere in previous cycles?

One comlete round o% the social cycle (through slave, arrior,

intellectual and caitalist dominance %olloed !y slaverevolution) is termed eriheric, or comlete, evolution"

olloing the comletion o% the hole cycle a %resh cycle

commences ith the onset o% the arrior era on the ath o%

evolution or revolution" 7ill things !e the same as they ere

the last time this articular varna as in oerM 4t is true that

the %undamentally redominating sycho=siritual %actor o% one

era ill !e congruent ith the same era o% the revious cycle"

As the arrior collective sychology has a redominantly

chivalrous attitude, the intellectuals their tyical cere!ral

orientation, and the caitalists economic motivation as their

!asic redominating sycho=social %actor, these ill continue to

mani%est themselves in their resective eras o% any round o% the

social cycle"

O% course, the intensity o% the sycho=social assertion maydi%%er" Ies, di%%er it must since variety is the characteristic o%

the oerative rincile, o% the %orce o% creation" 7hile moving

ith the social cycle every single erson undergoes a rocess

o% change, consciously or unconsciously, and so is the case

ith grous and institutions H social, economic and olitical"

All these e9eriences ersist !oth in the collective minds o% the

varnas and in society as a hole" The ne9t corresonding era

comrising o% all those stresses and strains, imulses andimressions, achievements and realizations must get a

variegated %orm" -o matter ho strong the redominating !asic

sycho=social %actor may !e it ill de%initely !e characterized

!y humanity's accumulated cognition at that articular oint in

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or instance, as at resent, i% our society, su%%ering as it is under

caitalist e9loitation, undergoes a slave revolution and a

arrior rule emerges at the onset o% the ne9t round o% the social

cycle, ill all the characteristics o% that coming era remain thesame as they ere in the arrior era o% the revious cycleM -o"

o could theyM The imact o% thought in the realm o%

hilosohy, science, technology, the conse5uence o%

realizations in the social shere, in sirituality, the e%%ects o%

achievements in the realm o% economy and culture, the

ro%ound imressions o% institutional e9eriences such as

glo!al governing !odies, and a!ove all the emergence o%

sadviras ill cause a ro%ound and %ar=reaching variegation in

the coming arrior era" O% course, hile overcoming the

raacious and unscruulous e9loitation, the %orces o%

antithesis mani%esting through the disgruntled slaves, under the

guidance o% sadviras, are li$ely to develo a chivalrous

attitude" This !asic trait o% the arrior=minded ould continue

to redominate the collective sychology o% the merging

arrior era instilled ith several oer%ul imressions caused!y the a!ove=mentioned %actors" This ill also !e the case ith

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Economic spects

Q. What are the "asic principles of the P#$UT economy?

1" The minimum essentials o% li%e must !e rovided to

each individual according to the standards o% the time,

!y roviding a minimum o% urchasing oer through

emloyment"

2" The surlus a%ter meeting the minimum necessities ill

have to !e distri!uted among those o% secial merit

according to the degree o% merit"

3" %%orts %or raising the minimum standard should go on

una!ated and the all=round orldly roserity and

develoment o% human !eings ill deend on this

endeavor"

Q. What does P#$UT mean "y the minimum essentials of

life and ho! !ill it vary !ith the age?The minimum essentials imly the rovision o% %ood, clothing,

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8oreover, certain services re5uire articular %acilities and

e5uiment in order to %unction at an otimum" Ta$e the case o%

a social or$er ho !y dint o% his or her a!ility, reutation and

sense o% service has greater reach and is %re5uently called uonto attend clients at their houses" A car ill de%initely rovide

such an aroved o% asset to society ith !etter oortunity o%

service"

Q. Will the provision of special re!ards not lead to

capitalistic accumulation and there"y to economic

eploitation?

This ill not haen i% all the three rinciles mentioned a!ove

are strictly and concurrently alied" These three rinciles

should !e so rationally integrated in the carrying out o%

economic olicy that the di%%erence !eteen the average

reards meted out to ersons o% secial merit and the reards

aid to ac5uire minimum essentials ill go on decreasing !ut it

ill never !e zero" or instance, ith a change in the economic

era or ith the advancement in the rice inde9 lanners are todecide on an increase in the 5uantum o% secial amenities and

that o% the minimum essentials" This articular develoment

ill !e determined in a manner so that the roortional

increase in secial reards is alays less than that made in the

minimum necessities" Thus the di%%erence ill go on

rogressively decreasing and ill not lead to caitalistic

accumulation or e9loitation"

Q. )o! !ill minimum essentials and special re!ards "e

provided?

The economic structure, i"e" the system o% roduction and

distri!ution, age olicy, ercentage o% ro%it, and rice setting

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re5uisite urchasing caacity %or their minimum essentials or

secial emolument as the case may !e"

Actually, in a Proutistic setu medical aid and education ill !e%ree and every individual ill have access to a house according

to their %unctional status or re5uirement" ood and clothing ill

there%ore !e the main asects toards hich re5uisite

urchasing caacity ill !e rovided against or$ and

contri!ution to the socioeconomic system"

#ndustrial polic!

Q. What !ill "e the Proutistic industrial policy?

PROUT roounds a system o% decentralization o% economic

oer" The centralization o% economic oer, hether it is in

the hands o% individuals or the state, such as under caitalism

and communism resectively, leads to economic=oliticale9loitation" Private caitalists venture to suc$ the vital ?uice

%rom the social tree"

or decades the glo!al trend has !een toards the

concentration o% economic oer into %eer and %eer hands"

One estimate is that the current level o% orld ine5uality is

e5uivalent to a situation here **J o% eole have zeroincome, and 3&J divide the entire income o% the orld among

themselves e5uallyK1+ One high level study oints out that

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o% develoed Paci%ic rim countries" 7ith 2J o% adults oning

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nervous system o% the economic structure, i"e" steel, yarn,

energy, means o% communication, de%ense, etc"

These are to !e managed !y the immediate state governmentand ill or$ on a no=ro%it, no=loss !asis" The state ill never

!ehave as a commercial institution ith ro%it motives"

!) 1arge'scale industriesare those hich need considera!le

caital, emloy a signi%icant num!er o% or$ers, run !y

comle9 technical $no=ho, and are not small enough to !e

le%t to individual s$ill and endeavor" They ill !e controlled !y

cooeratives"

#uch industries ill have to %ollo !road rules o% olicy, i"e"

ercentage o% ro%it, !onus olicy, 5uantities o% shares and

dividend to !e aid to each shareholder as stiulated !y the

Policy Planning 6ody" -ormally the roortion o% ro%it shared

!y la!or and shareholders ill !e &0J and *0J resectively"

A success%ul cooerative systems necessitates.

i) #trong ethical governance

ii) thical administration o% the industry

iii) Proer sycho=social environment

The lac$ o% these essential %actors has !een the reason %or the

%ailure o% the cooerative system in many countries" UnderPROUT there ill !e no lac$ o% any o% these"

c) Small enterprises are those hich deend on individual

s$ills and are so small that they cannot !e administered

ro%ita!ly in cooeration or are those hich do not re5uire a

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total caital !eyond a certain limit to !e stiulated !y the

Policy Planning 6ody, such as small convenience shos, stalls,

grocery shos, restaurants, tailor shos, !ar!er shos, service

or$shos and a ide range o% similar small esta!lishmentsand cottage industries li$e hand eaving, handicra%ts,

engineering goods manu%acturing, etc" #tes ill !e ta$en to

modernize and rationalize such ventures in order to ensure the

ma9imum roduction o% each unit"

Q. What is the structural setup of this industrial system?

Cey industries ill act as the nucleus around hich large=scale

industries ill !e encouraged to !e esta!lished as satellites"

#mall enterrises ill naturally cro u around large=scale

industries !eside tons and villages out o% necessity or

according to seci%ic local conditions"

-o overlaing ill !e alloed among the industries, i"e"

commodities classi%ied %or $ey industries ill not !e roduced

!y large=scale industries nor vice versa" There is no scoe %orrivate onershi or management in the shere o% $ey or large=

scale industriesD the %ormer ill act as a chec$ on the large=

scale industries !y virtue o% !eing the sulier o% ra materials

on a no=ro%it, no=loss !asis"

Q. What !ill the structure and responsi"ility of the Policy

Planning 2ody "e?

The Policy Planning 6ody ill consist o% such ersons o%moral integrity ho are e9erts in the technical $no=ho o%

the industrial and economic setu" The central Policy Planning

6ody may %orm its loer !odies %or articular economic=

administrative units" They ill decide on and enact the

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i" The shere o% di%%erent industries ($ey, large=scale and

small scale enterrises)"

ii" Percentage o% gross ro%it %or large=scale and smallenterrises, hich may vary according to industry, time

and lace"

iii" The 5uantity o% urchasing caacity necessary %or

minimum essentials"

iv" Nuantity o% reards to !e aid as secial amenities to

ersons o% merit and also %or raising the standard o%

minimum necessities"

v" Arrange %or the esta!lishment o% $ey industries

necessary %or an area and encourage the esta!lishment

o% large=scale industries"

vi" ndeavor to create such a sycho=social atmoshere in

hich the motivation !ehind economic groth ill !e

utilization and not ro%it"

vii"ind ays and means !y hich a Proutistic economic

setu may !e esta!lished roerly and evolverogressively and materialize them"

Q. What is the system of incentives according to P#$UT?

PROUT rovides incentives in all the %olloing three sheres.

siritual, sychic and economic"

a) #iritual. The entire :osmic henomenon including this

social setu is the mani%estation o% my #ureme ather" 4n uslies a divine urose to e9ress and utilize the hysical,

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!) Psychic. #ince the #ureme ather o% the entire humanity is

a singular ntity, in serving the society and evolving ith it in

a su!lime social order e are serving our on %amily, our

common atrimony is one and %or all" This ill !e the insiringsycho=social incentive"

c) Physical. Progressively increasing the standard o% minimum

essentials %or all, and also that o% the secial amenities %or the

%e merited, ill !e the economic incentive"

All the three incentives ill !e alica!le to all !ut the more

the individual evolves sycho=siritually, the su!tler ill !e his

or her incentive" A siritually evolved erson ill !e more

insired !y a siritual incentive than !y sychic or economic,

and the sychically evolved erson more !y sychic sentiment

and less !y economic, and so on"

Q. Will the rationalization of industry "e affected under a

P#$UT economy?

PROUT as rogressive social thin$ing ould never advocatethe retracing o% the ath o% technological rogress and its

alication in an economic=industrial endeavor" 4nstead it

advocates more and more technological advancement and

greater rationalization in all sections o% the economy so that

human and hysical resources are utilized to their ma9imum"

Q. Will it not lead to unemployment?

Rationalization !ased on ro%it=motivation leads tounemloyment and e9loitation" 6ut rationalization !ased on

the rincile o% utilization has a di%%erent role to lay"

Progressive utilization o% human otential means this human

otential's e9ression in su!tler sheres such as in

metahysical and siritual sheres" The accomlishment o% this

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rationalization ill cause the reduction o% or$ing hours (!ut

no reduction in emloyment otential) so that the surlus time

saved !y or$ers is utilized in su!tler ursuits (intellectual and

siritual)"

$ricultural Polic!

Q. What should "e the percentage of population supporting

themselves on agriculture?4n a develoed economy only 30 to &J o% the oulation

should suort themselves on agriculture" 4n countries here a

greater oulation live on agriculture there should !e an

endeavor to shi%t the surlus oulation to agro=!ased and

agrico=(ost=harvest) industries"

Q. What !ill the mode of development of these industries

"e?Ta$ing the agricultural roduce as the nucleus (as a $ey

industry) agro=!ased and agrico=industries should !e

esta!lished in a articular area in harmony ith its seci%ic

characteristics" or instance in an area roducing sugarcane H

sugar industry, in an area roducing !am!oo H a !am!oo or

stra aer industry" 4n this ay suita!le industries should !e

esta!lished considering the restrictions as discussed a!ovea!out large=scale and small enterrises"

Q. What !ill "e the policy of ceiling on land o!nership?

A ceiling ill !e %i9ed on ma9imum as ell as minimum land

holdings" 4% the agricultural holding is so small that modern

develoed means o% tools, seeds, irrigation, etc" cannot !e used,

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Q. What !ill "e the scope and function of trade unions in

agriculture and industry in a Proutistic economy?

#ince agriculture has !een e5uated ith industry under

PROUT, norms alica!le %or industry ill !e e5uallyalica!le to agriculture"

PROUT stands %or the %ullest utilization o% human resources

and also human el%are" This can only !e ossi!le !y active

involvement o% la!or in the el%are activities as ell as in the

management o% the organizations they or$ in" Thus, trade

unions in their resective %ields ould !oth !e desira!le and

imerative" 6esides sa%eguarding the interests o% la!or, unions

ould !e re5uired to !e vigilant so that the hole system runs

smoothly and e%%iciently and that roer disciline in

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Political %!stem

Q. What is the fundamental difference "et!een theProutistic political system and other political systems !ith

reference to motivation and structure?

The motivation and urose !ehind the Proutistic olitical

system is !asically to administer in a manner so that economic

institutions are a!le to materialize the rinciles and olicies o%

a rogressive economy, and that the society rogresses ahead

ith the su!lime motto. or the good and hainess o% all"B

Political institutions are not an end in themselves !ut a means

to achieve economic ell=!eing and social rogress"

9isting olitical institutions have a tendency to idealize

themselves" Ad?ectives o% raise in the name o% eole's

democracyB, social democracyB or individual li!ertyB

%lourish in olitical seeches" This !ad ha!it, a sure sign o%

ro%essional, shred oliticians, has signi%icantly contri!utedto an era o% demagogical slogans and instigated oulist

oliticians to lay a cunning game in order to cature oer

and hold on to it"

The Proutistic olitical system is selecto=electional" 4t means

those ho may have the right to vote or are to !e eligi!le to !e

elected should ossess the %olloing 5ualities.

1" ducated in a sense that the erson has attained a !asic

$noledge o% social circumstances"

2" #ocioeconomic consciousness"

3" 8ani%est moral integrity

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O% course there ill !e an incessant endeavor in the Proutistic

system to let every mem!er o% society develo these 5ualities

in order to !ring each one into the lectoral :ollege" As long as

a erson does not ossess these 5ualities, he or she ill not !ealloed to ollute %air and imartial elections, as is

e9erienced today !y circumsect voters all over the orld"

The test o% democracy is not in the num!er o% oer%ul eole

!ut in their method o% selection and in their accounta!ility to

the larger grou o% citizens" 7ithout a roer system o%

selection, democracy degenerates into mo!ocracyB, there!y

creating a situation o% e9loitation" 4t has !een o%ten itnessed

that regionalism, arochialism, casteism, grouism, religionism

and other narro sentimental or even sychic aeals lay a

vital role in the selection and election o% candidates in most

modern democracies" The huge role o% 6ig 6usiness and

de%initely the in%luence o% money in elections even in the most

thriving o% democracies undermines the sirit and content o%

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