Philosophy · Part three
The welfare of all
Átmamokśárthaḿ jagaddhitáya ca: for one’s own liberation and for the welfare of the whole world. The second half of that line is the subject of this part: what a society is, what divides people, and what a good society is built on.
On each page the marked passages are the words of Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti, from the books, as they are printed. The lines between them are ours and only lead from one passage to the next.
The topics
- 01What a society is: moving togetherA society is people who have decided to move together and to leave no one behind.Read
- 02One human familyHumanity is one family with one Father; race, caste, creed, nation and language give no ground for dividing it.Read
- 03NeohumanismThe spirit of humanism, extended to everything in the universe, animate and inanimate.Read
- 04Dogma and narrow sentimentsAttachment to land or group, and ideas that forbid questions: how they are used, and what ends them.Read
- 05Exploitation in three spheresHow exploitation works in the physical, psychic and spiritual spheres, who bears it, and how it is to be ended.Read
- 06Social equalityThe principle of social equality, set against caste, race prejudice and the subjection of women.Read
- 07PROUT: the five principlesThe Progressive Utilization Theory as Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti states it: a guaranteed minimum for all, a ceiling on wealth, and five principles.Read
- 08Economic democracyShrii Shrii Ánandamúrti calls political democracy a hoax and demands economic democracy: economic power in the hands of local people.Read
- 09The social cycleWarriors, intellectuals and capitalists rule society in turn; each ends as an exploiter, and the wheel turns again.Read
- 10Sadvipras: the people a society leans onHonest, spiritual, and unafraid to stand against exploitation: who sadvipras are, why a society needs them, and how anyone can grow into one.Read
- 11Service: the four yajiṋasService is action for others, and it has four kinds: to created beings, to human beings, to the sages and ancestors, and the wholly inner one. The second has four kinds of its own.Read