An Ideal Life

Service Psychology and Group Psychology

Human society is one and indivisible. But today, due to superstition, dogmatism narrow-mindedness, separatism and all kinds of `isms' human society is splitting into numerous parts. Against this background, in order to build the human society it is necessary to adopt the path of synthesis, which originates from the psychology of service and welfare.......Read more

Questions and Answers on Prout

Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar talks here about the various kinds of cooperatives and how to construct a cooperative commonwealth. He talks about building up an economy primarily based on cooperatives. Minimal scope is given for government-run economies as in the case of communism, and corporate-run economies as in the case of capitalism. The essential hallmark of the Prout economy is to demand economic sovereignty for all self-sustaining communities. Shrii Sarkar says, "Neither the commune system not capitalism can solve human problems. Only the co-operative system can solve all sorts of social, cultural and national problems." He further says that the system of gaining support in capitalism is through money, and the system of gaining support in communism is through fear. But today, intellectuals around the world are discovering the Proutistic economic model. Neither money nor fear is compelled. Rather, the people themselves will run their own local economies!  ............ Read more

Multi-Purpose Development Schemes

Shrii Sarkar tells how in so many parts of the world there is acute shortage of substantial, nutritious food - including certain parts of Wales, Scotland, India, Paraguay and Uruguay, and particularly in the countries of Africa. In Purulia district of West Bengal the people live on grass seed. And in some parts of Africa the starving people survive on mice and rats. Shrii Sarkar says that we are to take responsibility for the entire globe and solve the problem of malnutrition. We need to further solve the problem of irrational distribution and even non-distribution on the part of greedy capitalists who are indifferent to the sufferings of weeping humanity! We need to serve the people in dire affliction who live in the worst areas, the areas of greatest need, and radiate outwards from those areas. Communist countries, due to the very nature of the defective communist ideology, invariably suffer from hunger and other hardships. Hence we are to help those countries especially. They are always short of food. We need to provide service right down to the village level by setting up mass feeding centers and cheap kitchens while distributing items such as clothes, medicines and school supplies as well as special housing facilities for the acutely impoverished people. We need to quickly elevate the living standard of the downtrodden masses in the undeveloped as well as the communist countries. We also need to spread education to the same masses - we must spread education in each and every village of the world. Proper education, says Shrii Sarkar, will result in elevating the living standard of the downtrodden humanity! ..........Read more

Agrarian Revolution

Shrii Sarkar talks about the importance of cooperatives in agriculture. He emphasizes that in a developed economy, about 30-45 percent of the people should be engaged in agriculture and the rest of the people should be employed in industry or other sectors of the economy. Forcibly depriving landowners of their land and distributing it to the landless peasants is not the solution. According to PROUT, increasing production on the land is the key point. For economic decentralization, agricultural land should be managed through the cooperative system. However, cooperatives must evolve out of the collective labor and wisdom of a community. Cooperatives cannot be rammed down the throats of the people! This was the mistake of the leaders of the Soviet Union. Collective farming cannot be instituted by force. In the rational distribution of land and redetermination of ownership, two factors will be considered - the minimum holding of land necessary to maintain a family, and the farmer's capacity to utilize the land. In addition, three factors determine the success of cooperatives - moraity, strong supervision, and the wholehearted acceptance of the masses. When these three factors are present, cooperatives will be successful..........Read more

Humanity is at the Threshold of a New Era

Using examples from his 'Songs of the New Dawn,' Shrii Sarkar tells us that we are all at the threshold of a new era! Half-dead trees have sprung into life and peacocks have started to prance in rhythm! The verdant beauty of the earth enchants the mind as the restless wind blows in all directions spreading the joy and festivity of the people as they move forward together! Shrii Sarkar says, the days of dogma are over. It is time now to support the entire created world - not only human beings. In this manner, with this mindset, the hearts of all created beings will dance in ecstasy and throb with energy! Sarkar writes that with the rains that fall as heavenly nectar - hope has returned, and the once-parched grasses now carpet the earth in their lush, verdant beauty. The trees became full of sweetness and all earth's creatures have found new life! There is no time now to look back or to sleep. Neo-humanism means, humanism supplying elixir to one and all - to all the created beings. We must not waste a single moment of our valuable existence, because we are at the threshold of a new era and so many epoch-making events are to be created by us all! It is all of us who are to take on this great responsibility to love and care for all the earth's inhabitants! All our rhythms will be united as one in this glorious task to save our universe, to save human existence. We need to forget the omissions and commissions of the past, and become the vanguard of a bright and magnificent future. Shrii Sarkar says, we should welcome the crimson light of that future that is breaking now on the eastern horizon! .......Read more

The Status of Inanimation in the Philosophy of Neo-humanism

Shrii Sarkar says that Neo-humanism is newly-explained humanism. Only human beings have come within the scope of humanism and humanity. He says this explanation is not sufficient, it cannot quench the thirst of the developing human society. Why should the love and affection of human beings be restricted to human beings only? he says. Why should it not include all living beings, including plant life? He says, "This is the new explanation of humanism – Neo-humanisim - for within Neo-humanism the entire animate world is included." ....... Read more

Perfect Spirituality and Neo-humanism

Shrii Sarkar says that "those who have been declared as being established in pure spirituality, in perfect spirituality, but show no reflection of Neo-humanism in their external dealings - those whose minds are assailed by divisive tendencies, who want to keep one community separate from another and create confusion in the minds of others in the name of scriptures - it should be clearly understood that what has been declared about those people is not true. If the path one follows is not true, then it is impossible to reach the goal. Neo-humanism is the only way - human beings will have to accept it today or tomorrow." ......... Read more

Neo-humanism is the Ultimate Shelter

According to Shrii Sarkar, humanity is the collection of all the perfections and imperfections of human beings, and when their higher thoughts and ideas are combined together, we get humanism. What is Neo-humanism? It is humanism newly explained, of the future. It means that human beings, as the most thoughtful and intelligent beings in this created universe, will have to accept the great responsibility of taking care of the entire universe - will have to accept that the responsibility for the entire universe rests on them. Neo-humanism is the philosophy that will make people understand that they are not ordinary creatures. This philosophy will liberate people from all inferiority feelings and defects and make them aware of their own importance. It will also inspire them to build a new world! Shrii Sarkar says: "...when those ever-vigilant human beings... will be able to merge their existential nuclei with the Supreme Existential Nucleus, then only will Neo-humanism be permanently established, and human beings will be ensconced in the joy of freedom forever. On that day they will proclaim in full-throated voices: 'We have come to the world to perform great deeds - for the physical welfare of all, for the [mental] happiness of all, and for the spiritual elevation of all - to lead all from darkness unto light.' If even then someone says, 'No, darkness is good for me!' we will tell them: 'All right, darkness is good for you, but just once why don't you come and see the light - it is even better!'" ........ Read more