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No individual should be allowed to accumulate any f maximum amenities are physical wealth not provided to common BESIDES POLITICAL DEMOCRACY without the clear people, no doubt there will n March 5, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections permission or I 2014 to be held in 9 phases beginning April 7 and end on May 12. This time the expected voter approval of the be progress in society, but there strength is a staggering 81.45 crores (814.5 million) an increase of 10 crores (100 million) new collective body. O will always remain the scope for eligible voters in 543 constituencies across the length and breadth of India and for the first time people would 2. There should be imperfection in future. What have the option of 'None of the above' if they do not like any candidate in their constituency. This also will be maximum the longest and the costliest general election in the history of the country with the Election Commission utilization and constitutes both the minimum estimating that it would cost the exchequer Rs 3,500 crores. This however does not include the cost of security rational distribution requirements and the maximum deployment to cover the elections, which is going to be massive and would include Central and State Security of all mundane, forces who would take special care for disturbed and Maoist infested areas. According to the Centre for Media supra mundane and amenities should be ever Studies political parties are expected to spend 30,500 crores (about US$ 5 billion) in the election. This is three spiritual increasing. If the maximum times the amount spent in the previous election and is the world's second highest after the US$ 7 billion spent potentialities of the on the 2012 Presidential elections in USA. On May 16 the votes would be counted and all results would be universe. amenities of meritorious people declared the same day and the new political dispensation would be set to rule for the next five years. PROUT's founder Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar while discoursing on Economic Democracy in Calcutta 3. There should be become excessively high, then in July 1986 said, “The type of democracy prevalent in India is also political democracy, and it has proved to maximum the minimum requirements of be a unique system of exploitation. The Indian constitution was created by three groups of exploiters: the utilization of the British imperialists, the Indian imperialists and the ruling parties representing the Indian capitalists. All the physical, common people should be provisions of the Indian constitution were framed keeping an eye on furthering the interests of these metaphysical and immediately increased. For opportunists. Just to hoodwink the masses, the people were granted the right of universal suffrage. Millions of spiritual Indians are poor, superstitious and illiterate, yet the exploiters, through such practices as making false potentialities of unit example, if a person with special promises, intimidation, gross abuse of administrative power and vote rigging, repeatedly win over the and collective body qualities has a motor bike and an electorate. This is the farce of democracy. Once they form the government, they get ample opportunity to of the human indulge in rampant corruption and political tyranny for five years. In the subsequent elections the same is society. ordinary person has a bicycle, repeated”. He goes on to add, “This type of political opportunism has been going on in India since independence ... 4. There should be a there is a balanced adjustment. political parties have maintained that in order to attain economic parity with the industrially developed proper adjustment But if the person with special countries of Europe, India must follow the democratic system. To support this argument, they cite the amongst these examples of America and Great Britain or China and the Soviet Union. The political leaders urge the physical, qualities has a car, then we electorate to vote in their favour at election time so that the country's starving masses can reap the benefits of a metaphysical, should immediately try to developed economy. But once the elections are over, the exploitation of the common people continues mundane, supra unabated in the garb of political democracy, and other areas of social life are completely neglected. Today mundane and provide the common people with millions of Indian citizens are being deprived of the minimum requirements of life and are struggling to spiritual utilizations. motor bikes. procure adequate food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment, while a handful of people are rolling in enormous wealth and luxury”. 5. The method of Besides political democracy, economic democracy is a must where economic and political power is utilization should - Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar bifurcated. PROUT advocates political centralization and economic decentralization. Political power is vary in accordance vested with the moralists, but economic power is vested with the local people. The principal goal of the with the changes in administration is to remove all the impediments and obstacles which prevent the economic needs of the time, space and people being met. PROUT'S slogan: “To end exploitation we demand economic democracy, not just political person and the democracy” must be followed in letter and spirit. utilization should be This is what is required and not another expensive election to form a new government to continue as of progressive before for another five years. For this it is essential to bring required changes in the Constitution of India to nature. guarantee minimum requirements of life to all members of society.

04 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 05 PROUT From the Editor's P R O G R E S S I V E U T I L I Z A T I O N T H E O R Y Desk Fundamental Principles : ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 1. No individual should be allowed to accumulate any f maximum amenities are physical wealth not provided to common BESIDES POLITICAL DEMOCRACY without the clear people, no doubt there will n March 5, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections permission or I 2014 to be held in 9 phases beginning April 7 and end on May 12. This time the expected voter approval of the be progress in society, but there strength is a staggering 81.45 crores (814.5 million) an increase of 10 crores (100 million) new collective body. O will always remain the scope for eligible voters in 543 constituencies across the length and breadth of India and for the first time people would 2. There should be imperfection in future. What have the option of 'None of the above' if they do not like any candidate in their constituency. This also will be maximum the longest and the costliest general election in the history of the country with the Election Commission utilization and constitutes both the minimum estimating that it would cost the exchequer Rs 3,500 crores. This however does not include the cost of security rational distribution requirements and the maximum deployment to cover the elections, which is going to be massive and would include Central and State Security of all mundane, forces who would take special care for disturbed and Maoist infested areas. According to the Centre for Media supra mundane and amenities should be ever Studies political parties are expected to spend 30,500 crores (about US$ 5 billion) in the election. This is three spiritual increasing. If the maximum times the amount spent in the previous election and is the world's second highest after the US$ 7 billion spent potentialities of the on the 2012 Presidential elections in USA. On May 16 the votes would be counted and all results would be universe. amenities of meritorious people declared the same day and the new political dispensation would be set to rule for the next five years. PROUT's founder Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar while discoursing on Economic Democracy in Calcutta 3. There should be become excessively high, then in July 1986 said, “The type of democracy prevalent in India is also political democracy, and it has proved to maximum the minimum requirements of be a unique system of exploitation. The Indian constitution was created by three groups of exploiters: the utilization of the British imperialists, the Indian imperialists and the ruling parties representing the Indian capitalists. All the physical, common people should be provisions of the Indian constitution were framed keeping an eye on furthering the interests of these metaphysical and immediately increased. For opportunists. Just to hoodwink the masses, the people were granted the right of universal suffrage. Millions of spiritual Indians are poor, superstitious and illiterate, yet the exploiters, through such practices as making false potentialities of unit example, if a person with special promises, intimidation, gross abuse of administrative power and vote rigging, repeatedly win over the and collective body qualities has a motor bike and an electorate. This is the farce of democracy. Once they form the government, they get ample opportunity to of the human indulge in rampant corruption and political tyranny for five years. In the subsequent elections the same is society. ordinary person has a bicycle, repeated”. He goes on to add, “This type of political opportunism has been going on in India since independence ... 4. There should be a there is a balanced adjustment. political parties have maintained that in order to attain economic parity with the industrially developed proper adjustment But if the person with special countries of Europe, India must follow the democratic system. To support this argument, they cite the amongst these examples of America and Great Britain or China and the Soviet Union. The political leaders urge the physical, qualities has a car, then we electorate to vote in their favour at election time so that the country's starving masses can reap the benefits of a metaphysical, should immediately try to developed economy. But once the elections are over, the exploitation of the common people continues mundane, supra unabated in the garb of political democracy, and other areas of social life are completely neglected. Today mundane and provide the common people with millions of Indian citizens are being deprived of the minimum requirements of life and are struggling to spiritual utilizations. motor bikes. procure adequate food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment, while a handful of people are rolling in enormous wealth and luxury”. 5. The method of Besides political democracy, economic democracy is a must where economic and political power is utilization should - Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar bifurcated. PROUT advocates political centralization and economic decentralization. Political power is vary in accordance vested with the moralists, but economic power is vested with the local people. The principal goal of the with the changes in administration is to remove all the impediments and obstacles which prevent the economic needs of the time, space and people being met. PROUT'S slogan: “To end exploitation we demand economic democracy, not just political person and the democracy” must be followed in letter and spirit. utilization should be This is what is required and not another expensive election to form a new government to continue as of progressive before for another five years. For this it is essential to bring required changes in the Constitution of India to nature. guarantee minimum requirements of life to all members of society.

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KSATRIYA PRESTIGE NORTH EAST : DISTURBED SOCIO ECONOMIC The article by Prout's founder OR DISCRIMINATED DEVELOPMENT traces very accurately about the Although focus of the author of Ravi Logan has explained in evolution of the warrior class to the article (Feb. Issue) was on the simple language about what kind of whom prestige mattered the most, use of draconian Armed Forces Act foundation should there be in and how they came under the society to establish a healthy 1958 ( AFSPA ) in Assam and 20 km influence of the Vipras - the economic structure. This would area in bordering states of Arunachal intellectuals - who became avoid harming both those exploited Pradesh and Meghalaya, making a prominent to ultimately - make and those exploiting. And pave the case of discrimination. In fact North How way for the rise of the Vipras the way for a strong foundation of love merchants. It is the latter who rule east states are not only regions, and universalism and a world today under the garb of democracy p e o p l e f r o m w h e r e a r e government of the future. and elections that are controlled by discriminated on the basis of Krishna Semwal, Dehradun their money power. physical look, language, culture and Swati, Gurgaon dress. We also look at Africans as EPISTEMIC big is inferior people because they are TRANSFORMATION dark skinned. The colour factor ABORTION : PROTECTING I liked the ancient Hawaiian permeates the way North Indians THE HELPLESS saying at the beginning of the article treat South Indians. The caste by Sohail Inaytullah. Shrii Sarkar's I would like to retract one system promotes discrimination of economic philosophy of Prout on sentence from my article in the one community against the other. which this transformation is based March issue, published as The attitude to the citizens from together with the cost of perfection One? “Abortion: Protecting the Helpless”. North East is racist. They are in life one has to only follow these The sentence: “This was apparently publicly ridiculed, discriminated, timeless principles to meet with a reason that the original 19th- because of their features, culture, success. century feminists in the USA food, cloths, behaviour as if they Aster Joaquim by email laboured to make abortion illegal.” s a man walked a desolate beach one cold, gray morning he have landed from an alien planet. It is true that most if not all the 19th- Our colour consciousness is also LAND CONFLICTS ARGENTINA began to see another figure, far in the distance. Slowly the two century feminist leaders condemned visible when we look eager to The piece by Zoe Brent makes abortion, and some made statements approached each other, and he could make out a local native impress fair skinned Europeans and for interesting reading about the A that would support its illegalization, Americans and feel delighted in social upheavals going on in far who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the such as the following: “Child their company. away Argentina. It is sad that the murderers practice their profession water. Time and again he hurled things into the ocean. As the distance Colour of skin, and physical social costs of this economic boom without let or hindrance, and open are being ignored with no thought of features of people, are result of between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the native was infant butcheries unquestioned...Is having systemic changes to resolve there no remedy for all this ante- climatic effect. It has nothing to do the farmers' plight. picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, natal child murder?...Perhaps there with person's ability and psycho- Ariel Hurst, will come a time when... the right of spiritual height. The attitude of Denklingen, Germany by email was throwing them back into the water. the unborn to be born will not be discrimination on the basis of Puzzled, the man approached the native and asked what he was doing. denied or interfered with.” “We feature and colour of skin puts us in WATER CHANGING PEOPLE'S poor light. Racial discrimination is want prevention, not merely LIVES “I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see its low tide right not only morally bad but it creates punishment. We must reach the root Heartwarming indeed it is to discord among people resulting in now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t of the evil [abortion]...” “The rights read the news report about of children as individuals begin v i o l e n c e . T h e a t t i t u d e o f Tharparkar Sindh Pakistan, one of throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up here from lack of oxygen.” while yet they remain the foetus.” It discrimination questions the very the driest regions of the world where “But there must be thousands of starfish on this beach,” the man replied. is also true that they said these things idea of India as a nation. India will drought is common and the scheme during the same period in which be great when the people would rise to bring water to the people living “You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are just too many. And this same many US states were enacting laws above narrow sentiments. It is said: there. Thank you Prout restricting abortion. However, this is “Attitude describes your altitude “. Salma, Najeebabad thing is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this not enough to conclude, as Serrin The same formula also applies in coast. Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?” Foster and others have, that the respect of communities and nations. RAILWAYS PRIVATIZATION feminists were actively involved in R.D.Singh, New Delhi I fully agree with the writer The local native smiled, bent down and picked up another starfish, and the passage of the laws. My Anuj Wankhede, the privatization as he threw it back into the sea he replied, “Made a difference to that one!” apologies. Thank you, perhaps you may have seen the of Indian Railways must never be Acarya Acyutananda Avadhuta article “Racism in India” in March issue allowed to happen. Author Unknown Kolkata that extensively dwelt on the subject ---Eds Ram Bhai, Surat

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obsessed with the psychology of cunningness; the you a present. What would you like?” His wife exploiters’ psychology gripped it, and women were replied, “Let me see I’d like some new clothes, some In the early stages of spiritual education when human beings were first made captives. new jewellery, in fact, so many things.” And she made taught the concept of dharma, many enlightened sages, both male and would hunt together; and the women would a long list of all the things she wanted. Yájinávalkya sometimes carry the slaughtered animals from the bought everything she asked for and then asked female, were born. In those days, both men and women made equal forest. Women were equally free in all respects. But Maetreyii, “What would you like? Clothes, jewellery, contributions to the world of spirituality. later, when the so-called civilization spread, it was or any other valuable thing?” Maetreyii remained obsessed with the psychology of cunningness; the silent. Yájinávalkya continued, “Just a little while SHRII PRABHAT RANJAN SARKAR exploiters’ psychology gripped it, and women were ago, Katyáyánii said she would like some new made captives. clothes, jewellery, and so many other things. What In the early stages of spiritual education when would you like?” Maetreyii replied, Yenáhaḿ human beings were first taught the concept of dharma, námrtasyáḿ tenáhaḿ kim kuryám. “What will I do many enlightened sages, both male and female, were with things which will not remain with me The Place of Women born. In those days, both men and women made equal permanently? Of what use are the objects which will contributions to the world of spirituality: Vashiśt́ha, not establish me in immortality? The expensive In the Vishvámitra and Yájinávalkya were among the clothes I wear today will be torn in a few days. The illustrious men; and Maetreyii, Gargii and Madálasá, jewellery I wear today will no longer be fashionable among the illustrious women. They were equal in all tomorrow as the designs change from age to age. A respects and greatly enriched the world of spirituality certain design was fashionable in my grandmother’s with their teachings. day, another one in my mother’s day and yet another SPIRITUAL WORLD Gargii was born many years ago. Once, in the in the present day. No design is permanent forever. It’s royal court of King Janaka, she challenged nice of you to offer me such things, but none of them Yájinávalkya to a debate on the spiritual scriptures. will remain with me. I will have to leave them all ome time ago, I said many Yájinávalkya found it difficult to answer her poignant behind when I depart from this world; so what use are people incorrectly believe questions and was soon on the point of being defeated they, and why should you tempt me with them?” that only men can attain by her. Utterly frustrated, he said, “Gargii, if you don’t Yájinávalkya then asked, “Please tell me what you S stop now, your tongue will drop off.” Gargii was success in the spiritual world. They say would really like.” “If you can,” she replied, “please that although women may make some compelled to shut her mouth. Unable to beat Gargii in give me that thing which will remain with me progress in the spiritual sphere, they will the debate, Yájinávalkya misused his powers to force permanently, which I’ll be able to preserve forever, have to come down to earth in the form of her to stop. which will establish me in immortality. I don’t want males to attain final salvation. One day, Yájinávalkya fell seriously ill. His two anything else.” Then Yájinávalkya gave her a number I said that this is an absurd and wives, Maetreyii and Kátyáyanii, attended on him of instructions, upon which a major part of Rájá Yoga irrational idea as women are the children with due care and affection.(1) It is a fact that some is based. of God just like their male counterparts. men are ordinary and some are extraordinary. No one should be foolish enough to think that Could any father want his sons to prosper Similarly, some women are ordinary and others women did not practice yoga in the past. You girls in all ways while his daughters remain are extraordinary. After recovering from his illness, should always remember that if anyone backward? Certainly he would not and Yájinávalkya said to Kátyáyanii, “I would like to give underestimates you, or looks upon you as inferior, could not want such a thing. Not only do parents take their sons on their laps and play with them; they do the same with their daughters. Sometimes they even have more affection for their daughters, not entitled to attain salvation. After repeatedly thinking, “They won’t be with us much longer. hearing this, women developed an inferiority They’ll be getting married soon and will move in with complex, became men’s slaves and were reduced to their husbands, so let us give them more love and the status of maid-servants. This absurd idea was affection. After all, we are not sure how well they will propagated with the sole intention of exploiting be treated by their mothers-in-law.” Some parents women. But when human civilization first sprouted, expect their sons to support the entire family once these things were unknown, as women were totally they have grown up and started earning money. Even free. From a study of Bengali history, we learn that though they have no such expectations for their there was equality between men and women. They daughters, they still love them dearly. Their love is would hunt together; and the women would deep and sincere. sometimes carry the slaughtered animals from the On what basis, therefore, is the argument forest. Women were equally free in all respects. But Gargi Maitreyi propounded that women will not attain salvation, later, when the so-called civilization spread, it was

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08 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 09 you should give a very blunt reply. make, the crimes and sins they commit, leave a mark decided to give up everything and go out in search of Madálasá, who was a so-called rakśasii [a name imprinted on their minds which remains as a an ideal. His quest brought him to Vakreshvra, in the contemptuously given by the Aryans to saḿskará. This spot or mark is called ainjana in west of Birbhum district [in the presentday West the indigenous people of India] was married to Sanskrit. Ainjana also means a kind of black mark Bengal, India] where the great sage Aśt́ávakra was Citrasena, the king of the Gandharvas. In their marriage which is used to decorate the eye. “My dear child, doing penance. There are some hot springs there. contract it was agreed that Madálasá, and not the king, there is no black spot in your mind. You are spotless. Alarka, seeking advice, asked the sage a number of would be responsible for the education of their You are unassailed by any kind of sin.” Saḿsára ḿayá questions. On the basis of Alarka’s questions and children. Madálasá always maintained that women are parivarpito’si: “You are beyond the spell of the Aśt́ávakra’s answers, a part of Rájá Yoga was evolved more spiritually inclined and devoted than men and are illusory Máyá of this mundane world. You are the which is known as Aśt́ávakra Samhitá. therefore more capable of properly educating their embodiment of the pure and unblemished self.” Later, when Alarka’s reputation as a great yogi children. With this idea in mind I told one of the Saḿsára svapnaḿ tyaja mohanidrám: “What is this had spread far and wide, the conquering king members of our WWD [Women’s Welfare Department] world after all? Human beings think this world is real, requested him to take back his kingdom. I have to launch a movement promoting women as primary but to the Absolute Entity it is only a mere dream, already said that Madálasa’s sons were the first school teachers. So, according to the marriage contract, having no real existence. That is why I tell you to sannyásis to embrace missionary life and serve the and with the king’s consent, Madálasá started teaching break the spell of illusion which makes you dream common people. “Alarka, come and take back your the first child. As soon as he was seven years old, he about all the attachments of this world.” throne,” said the king. “No,” replied Alarka, “I’m too became an ardent spiritualist and went to the mountains Madálasallopam uváca putraḿ: “This is how busy now as I have to propagate dharma in the world. I to live the life of a yogi. Following his departure, Madálasá teaches her son.” am bound to serve the society and thus have no time to Madálasá promptly started educating the second child. While she was teaching her son in this way, the look after the affairs of the royal administration.” This The king became angry, fearful that all his children king, beside himself with anger, came and accused her is the story of Madálasá. would embrace a spiritual life due to Madálasá’s of having wrongly educated their children. They both There is no plausible proof that women were unusual education. There was nothing he could do, started to quarrel, and Madálasá said in protest, spiritually undeveloped in the past. On the contrary, however, since he feared Madálasá. Not only was she “Don’t you remember our marriage contract? I was they were greatly advanced. Moreover, it is seen in the most beautiful woman in the world, she was also the one entrusted with the education of our children. various artistic and literary depictions that women highly educated. He was therefore unable to oppose her Now that you have broken the contract, I will no were not undeveloped in any age. To say something to her face. Moreover, she was a rákśasii, and he was longer remain with you.” And she left him. The story like that is a downright falsehood. In the days of frightened that she might even devour him! The second goes that soon after she drowned herself in the River Buddha, many women were also highly evolved, and son also became a sannyásii [renunciant] in due course. Ganges. The king was determined to give his fourth there is no reason whatsoever to suppose that women According to historical records, Madálasá’s child a good education. By the way, do you know what are any less developed in this modern age. It is a fact, children were the first to embrace missionary life and name he gave to his son? He called him “Alarka”. however, that women’s rights were curtailed in many take the vow of sannyásii-hood in order to serve What better proof of his ignorance could you ask ways in the past and that amends should be made for humanity. Prior to that, there were sannyásiis, no doubt, for? In Sanskrit, alarka means “mad dog”! Due to the that. In Ananda Marga we have done this by giving but they dressed themselves as sadhus more to enjoy king’s faulty education, Alarka became wicked in all women equal rights. We hope that women will also delicious gifts of laddu [sweet balls], pu lau [fried rice respects. advance along the spiritual path with the same speed dish] and malpoá [a type of sweet] than to render any As depicted in many stories, soon after Alarka as their male counterparts. I do not find any justifiable service. Madálasá’s sons were very different since they became king, his kingdom was attacked by a reason why women should lag behind in this age. became sannyásis to serve the suffering humanity as neighbouring king. Alarka was ideal missionaries. Everyone praised them, saying that defeated in battle and forced to leave they had never seen such ideal yogis. This was due to his kingdom. Utterly dejected, he Madálasá’s unique education. The third son also suddenly remembered that on the eve followed in the footsteps of his elder brothers. One day, of her departure, his mother had Madálasá was putting her fourth child, a three-month- given him a ring and advised him to old baby, to sleep with the following lullaby: break it open if ever he found himself Shúddho’si buddo’si nirainjano’si in great danger, as it would provide Saḿsára ḿayá parivarpito’si. good advice for him. Alarka thought Saḿsára svapnaḿ tyaja mohanidráḿ that this was the best time for him to Madálasollápam uváca putram. break open the ring. Inside he found a “Dear son, although you are but a child in a small small piece of paper on which several human frame, you are the veritable expression of the instructions were written: “Give up Supreme Consciousness. You are an ever-holy, ever- all sorts of company. If you are enlightened entity. As long as you think that you are unable to do that, then only keep the only a small child, you are spiritually ignorant, but company of good people. Give up all sorts of desires. If you are unable to Madalasa when you realize that you are a part of that Supreme Entity, you become that Supreme Entity, you become do that, then cherish only one desire: spotless (nirainjano’si).” The mistakes that people the desire for salvation.” Then Alarka

10 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 11 you should give a very blunt reply. make, the crimes and sins they commit, leave a mark decided to give up everything and go out in search of Madálasá, who was a so-called rakśasii [a name imprinted on their minds which remains as a an ideal. His quest brought him to Vakreshvra, in the contemptuously given by the Aryans to saḿskará. This spot or mark is called ainjana in west of Birbhum district [in the presentday West the indigenous people of India] was married to Sanskrit. Ainjana also means a kind of black mark Bengal, India] where the great sage Aśt́ávakra was Citrasena, the king of the Gandharvas. In their marriage which is used to decorate the eye. “My dear child, doing penance. There are some hot springs there. contract it was agreed that Madálasá, and not the king, there is no black spot in your mind. You are spotless. Alarka, seeking advice, asked the sage a number of would be responsible for the education of their You are unassailed by any kind of sin.” Saḿsára ḿayá questions. On the basis of Alarka’s questions and children. Madálasá always maintained that women are parivarpito’si: “You are beyond the spell of the Aśt́ávakra’s answers, a part of Rájá Yoga was evolved more spiritually inclined and devoted than men and are illusory Máyá of this mundane world. You are the which is known as Aśt́ávakra Samhitá. therefore more capable of properly educating their embodiment of the pure and unblemished self.” Later, when Alarka’s reputation as a great yogi children. With this idea in mind I told one of the Saḿsára svapnaḿ tyaja mohanidrám: “What is this had spread far and wide, the conquering king members of our WWD [Women’s Welfare Department] world after all? Human beings think this world is real, requested him to take back his kingdom. I have to launch a movement promoting women as primary but to the Absolute Entity it is only a mere dream, already said that Madálasa’s sons were the first school teachers. So, according to the marriage contract, having no real existence. That is why I tell you to sannyásis to embrace missionary life and serve the and with the king’s consent, Madálasá started teaching break the spell of illusion which makes you dream common people. “Alarka, come and take back your the first child. As soon as he was seven years old, he about all the attachments of this world.” throne,” said the king. “No,” replied Alarka, “I’m too became an ardent spiritualist and went to the mountains Madálasallopam uváca putraḿ: “This is how busy now as I have to propagate dharma in the world. I to live the life of a yogi. Following his departure, Madálasá teaches her son.” am bound to serve the society and thus have no time to Madálasá promptly started educating the second child. While she was teaching her son in this way, the look after the affairs of the royal administration.” This The king became angry, fearful that all his children king, beside himself with anger, came and accused her is the story of Madálasá. would embrace a spiritual life due to Madálasá’s of having wrongly educated their children. They both There is no plausible proof that women were unusual education. There was nothing he could do, started to quarrel, and Madálasá said in protest, spiritually undeveloped in the past. On the contrary, however, since he feared Madálasá. Not only was she “Don’t you remember our marriage contract? I was they were greatly advanced. Moreover, it is seen in the most beautiful woman in the world, she was also the one entrusted with the education of our children. various artistic and literary depictions that women highly educated. He was therefore unable to oppose her Now that you have broken the contract, I will no were not undeveloped in any age. To say something to her face. Moreover, she was a rákśasii, and he was longer remain with you.” And she left him. The story like that is a downright falsehood. In the days of frightened that she might even devour him! The second goes that soon after she drowned herself in the River Buddha, many women were also highly evolved, and son also became a sannyásii [renunciant] in due course. Ganges. The king was determined to give his fourth there is no reason whatsoever to suppose that women According to historical records, Madálasá’s child a good education. By the way, do you know what are any less developed in this modern age. It is a fact, children were the first to embrace missionary life and name he gave to his son? He called him “Alarka”. however, that women’s rights were curtailed in many take the vow of sannyásii-hood in order to serve What better proof of his ignorance could you ask ways in the past and that amends should be made for humanity. Prior to that, there were sannyásiis, no doubt, for? In Sanskrit, alarka means “mad dog”! Due to the that. In Ananda Marga we have done this by giving but they dressed themselves as sadhus more to enjoy king’s faulty education, Alarka became wicked in all women equal rights. We hope that women will also delicious gifts of laddu [sweet balls], pu lau [fried rice respects. advance along the spiritual path with the same speed dish] and malpoá [a type of sweet] than to render any As depicted in many stories, soon after Alarka as their male counterparts. I do not find any justifiable service. Madálasá’s sons were very different since they became king, his kingdom was attacked by a reason why women should lag behind in this age. became sannyásis to serve the suffering humanity as neighbouring king. Alarka was ideal missionaries. Everyone praised them, saying that defeated in battle and forced to leave they had never seen such ideal yogis. This was due to his kingdom. Utterly dejected, he Madálasá’s unique education. The third son also suddenly remembered that on the eve followed in the footsteps of his elder brothers. One day, of her departure, his mother had Madálasá was putting her fourth child, a three-month- given him a ring and advised him to old baby, to sleep with the following lullaby: break it open if ever he found himself Shúddho’si buddo’si nirainjano’si in great danger, as it would provide Saḿsára ḿayá parivarpito’si. good advice for him. Alarka thought Saḿsára svapnaḿ tyaja mohanidráḿ that this was the best time for him to Madálasollápam uváca putram. break open the ring. Inside he found a “Dear son, although you are but a child in a small small piece of paper on which several human frame, you are the veritable expression of the instructions were written: “Give up Supreme Consciousness. You are an ever-holy, ever- all sorts of company. If you are enlightened entity. As long as you think that you are unable to do that, then only keep the only a small child, you are spiritually ignorant, but company of good people. Give up all sorts of desires. If you are unable to Madalasa when you realize that you are a part of that Supreme Entity, you become that Supreme Entity, you become do that, then cherish only one desire: spotless (nirainjano’si).” The mistakes that people the desire for salvation.” Then Alarka

10 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 11 Continued from previous issue Principles of Proutist Economics that the best universities and libraries in the world are in former and present-day colonial powers. Furthermore the development of the various academic disciplines was driven by the needs of colonialism or what is called the military-industrial-political complex. So the current crises (in This sutra of Ananda Sutram states: the philosophical foundations) of so many academic disciplines are part and parcel of the current Global Economic Depression. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the current collapse of intellectual, emotional and intuitional development is in the realm of Vyaśt́isamaśt́isháriiramánasádhyátmikasambhá aesthetics. Through corporate pseudo-culture even countries like Germany with such a glorious musical tradition has a population devoted to hearing cheap American pop music. All over the world subtle arts and handicrafts are dying out. The tragedy is greatest when considering vanáyáḿcaramo’payogashca. formerly exquisite societies where aesthetics impacted every sphere of life such as in Japan and Indonesia. Countless skilled artisans all over the world have lost their heritage and been forced to do menial jobs due to the destruction of national economies by globalization. There should be maximum utilization of the physical, metaphysical and spiritual This is why the samaja movement is grounded in a cultural revolution. In actual fact Shrii Sarkar (the propounder of PROUT) spent potentialities of unit and collective bodies of human society. more time laying the foundation for a cultural revolution than He did in the economic and political fields. He did this by creating a new grammar and expanded vocabulary for the Bengali language and by composing over 5000 songs in just eight years. Furthermore Shrii Sarkar inaugurated a global university called Ananda Marga Gurukula in Ananda Nagar with the aim to create a new foundation based on justice, equality and spirituality for every academic discipline. As part of this massive project, plans were made for the creation of cultural universities so as to lay the foundations for a cultural and intellectual renaissance in every samaja. Shrii Sarkar was famous for saying that PROUT was a man-making and a woman-making mission. Thus far it has been only a few The evolution of the collective mind is much slower than the evolution of the individual mind. In individuals spiritual meditation reveals 5 parents and teachers who have looked upon their children with not just adoration but intuition and worked to manifest the latent beauty, kosas or levels of mind. However in the collective mind we do not find the evolution of all five levels of mind. In fact the collective mind is often service and spirituality in their children. PROUT makes it the duty of everyone in society. In this sense PROUT does not just give cultural and dominated by the cruder levels of mind. This has created a lot of animosity to the crowd or collective psychology in general amongst alienated economic rights but also gives tremendous responsibility for the blossoming of every member of a samaja, every community of a samaja, for intellectuals. In reality however, there is no real difference between the Superconscious (Unconscious) Mind of individual and collective the entire samaja, the entire world and the entire universe. Those who work tirelessly to fulfill these responsibilities are sadvipras or spiritual psychology and that of the Cosmic Mind. So at the higher levels of mental evolution, we are all one. This is why Shrii Sarkar enjoins each of us revolutionaries. that,You will have to carry the collectivity with you, because the collectivity is yours. The collectivity is not outside you – your future is For no one can say for certain that no great person might have emerged from among those wayward street children whom people are inseparably connected with the collective fortune. You must take the entire collectivity with you and move towards the sweetest radiance of the wont to slight and hate. Women who have turned to prostitution for the sake of their physical existence might have grown into noble new crimson dawn, beyond the veil of the darkest night. personalities if their agony had been appreciated sympathetically, and if they had been rehabilitated by society. But since capitalist society The solution then to the crudity of the collective mind lies not in condemnation but in education, evolution and sublimation of the has nothing to do with cardinal human values, a good number of great personalities are withering away in their embryonic stage. The Proutists collective psychology. Yoga bio-psychology (both on the individual and collective levels) is a new field revealed by Shrii Sarkar that explores will undertake to revive this neglected section of humanity. To them no sinner is contemptible, no one is a rogue. People turn into satans or the practical basis of psychology in endocrinology (science of hormone secretion) and spirituality. When combined with the new science of sinners when, for want of proper guidance, they are goaded by depraving propensities. The human mind goaded by depraving propensities is microvita and the power of mystical love (bhakti), the collective psychology of a society can be influenced and sublimated towards satan. If their propensities are sublimated, they will no longer be satans; they will be transformed into gods. Every course of action of society benevolence, unity, divine love and Pure Consciousness. This will lead to not just a revolution in the collective psychology but also in the ought to be judged with an eye to the dictum “Human beings are divine children.” evolution of the higher levels of mind. Similarly, on the collective level, there are many societies and communities that are scorned such as colonized indigenous If we want to encourage rationality and rationalization on the physical level, we must avoid thought-waves which originate on the communities with high rates of alcoholism and violence. In reality when we study the past history of those communities we find they lived a life physical plane and concern physical objects. On the psychic level, we must avoid various psychic forms, psychic ideas, psychic movements, of ecological, personal and social balance. Naturally there were some harmful practices but by far their societies were usually more humane and also those aspects of telepathy or clairvoyance which originate on the psychic plane. One can only be truly rational, if one has and socially benevolent than those of the wealthiest nations. As the civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, once remarked that only someone so transcended the various limited propensities, sentiments and instincts of the mind. This is why only the thought-wave which emanates from arrogant as a white man could go to a place like Tahiti where there was no poverty, no crime and hardly any conflict and call the people there the spiritual plane of Pure Consciousness (where subject, object and their relationships have all merged into one flow of Bliss.) will save “primitive people.” It is these indigenous societies blighted by colonialism and endless exploitation that are the main target of the samaja humanity from the devastating influence of dogma, which separates humans from humans, which creates hindrances in the remoulding of program for social renaissance and revolution. human society into a single existence. This process of rationalization should be developed through the intrinsic human potential of remodeling PROUT does not merely want to go back to the past. Rather it seeks to take the best of agricultural, small-scale industrial practices of every aspect of mind. We must do this in the near future. The problem is a peculiar one, but we must solve it, because it has created so many the past and combine them with today’s technology in a way that does not destroy the environment. How this can be possible was shown in troubles, so many divisions in human society – so many sanguinary battles, so much warfare. This problem may disturb the peace of the entire the detailed agricultural, ecological and industrial plans for the developed of a PROUT eco-village in Ananda Nagar, in one of the poorest universe. So we will have to solve this problem and create a new world in all the three emanations of life – physical, psychic and spiritual. districts in East India. Based on this role model plans have been made for the development of similar ecovillages or Master Units all over the In this regard we can note that capitalism also exists in the spiritual realm. Some people neglect their family and society and go to caves world. in the mountains and perform arduous penance to fulfill their longing for spiritual emancipation. Because of their selfishness, they keep This movement for the blossoming of individuals and communities is concerned not just the physical level but the psychic (intellectual, spiritual knowledge to themselves and do not bother to arouse spiritual awareness in individual and collective life. Often the elite classes when artistic, emotional, intuitional) level as well. There are countless hidden potentialities in the human mind. A mind, driven by many psychic faced with the meaninglessness of their lives turn to spirituality. However, their aim is to selfishly enjoy spiritual pleasure just as they enjoy pabula is the prisoner of innumerable predicaments. In such a condition the human mind becomes extroversial, multi-directional, weak and material pleasure. The benevolence, morality and sacrifice for suffering humanity demanded by true spirituality they ignore. This is capitalism static. It is propelled by the principle of selfish pleasure, which leads it down the path of counter-evolution. It always adopts an analytical in the spiritual sphere. It is antithetical to the very spirit of spiritual practices, which is: approach to life, never a synthetic one. As people have to satisfy their unrestrained psychic pabula with limited objects of wealth, they often Atma moksartham jagaddhitaya ca create interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. The collective psychology arising from many objectified human minds gives rise to social [Self-realization and service to humanity.] inequality, economic exploitation, political repression, religious bigotry, cultural perversion and the all-round degradation of the individual and To a spiritualist, everything – right from the Creator down to a small blade of grass – is the manifestation of Supreme Consciousness. society. Crude psychic pabula cause the degeneration of individual and collective mind, and thus bring about the downfall of the society. The state of equanimity is one of the main characteristics of spirituality. Without attaining this quality, one cannot establish oneself in the So psychic urges must not be objectified nor should they be suppressed; rather they must be channelized towards the Supreme supreme state, and one’s movement towards Supreme Consciousness will be hindered at every step. In ancient times many people found Desideratum through the proper psycho-spiritual approach. The Supreme Entity is always one – there is no room for duality in Infinity. In the themselves in this tragic predicament. psycho-spiritual approach the goal of psychic urges is always singular. With constant spiritual practice, the mind, with its thousand Genuine spiritual practice is the birthright of all people. In all spheres of collective life – economic, political, social, etc. – a scientific and propensities, becomes one-pointed and is goaded towards the Supreme Singular Entity. At this stage of advanced psycho-spiritual rational outlook is essential. The inculcation of cardinal human values is an urgent necessity. This is the demand of the age. Because such attainment, all the psychic urges with so many psychic pabula are channelled and converted into one psycho-spiritual pabulum – Cosmic higher values are lacking in social life, there are many incongruities and confusions in society. Consciousness. Today there is an urgent need for an all-round spiritual revolution in individual and collective life under the leadership of a group of Even in the realm of pure intellect we find that the vocabularies of so many languages are not being developed. Instead we find many accomplished and idealistic leaders. These leaders should be endowed with spiritual power, and their ideology should be based on the solid languages becoming extinct each year due to cultural imperialism. Even in more developed languages we find that vocabularies are rock of spirituality. Such highly qualified leaders are called sadvipras. They will ensure social progress in all countries in all ages. undeveloped when in comes to expressing subtler ideas, feelings and realizations. Rather due to corporate pseudo-culture we find that subtle All genuine spiritualists will have to adjust with the level of the dusty earth inspired by the spontaneous love of their hearts. They will words such as in Sanskrit and Chinese are becoming extinct even from the vocabulary of intellectuals. And when we look at the various have to share the wealth of their developed intellects with others to lighten the sorrows and sufferings of humanity. Through their guidance and intellectual fields we find that their materialistic foundations are losing meaning, creating a crisis of existence. At the same time academic leadership, human thinking will take a new turn and move along an entirely new path. The latent spiritual power in human beings will be specialization is increasing rapidly and causing narrow vision (both regarding the present and the history of discovery) even amongst awakened. Through their effort and inspiration, the new people of a new generation will be armed with a bold new optimism and vision of the scholars in the same general field. As some scholars like Baoventura de Sousa Santos and Water Mignolo have noted, it is no coincidence future, will march forward triumphantly.

12 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 13 Continued from previous issue Principles of Proutist Economics that the best universities and libraries in the world are in former and present-day colonial powers. Furthermore the development of the various academic disciplines was driven by the needs of colonialism or what is called the military-industrial-political complex. So the current crises (in This sutra of Ananda Sutram states: the philosophical foundations) of so many academic disciplines are part and parcel of the current Global Economic Depression. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the current collapse of intellectual, emotional and intuitional development is in the realm of Vyaśt́isamaśt́isháriiramánasádhyátmikasambhá aesthetics. Through corporate pseudo-culture even countries like Germany with such a glorious musical tradition has a population devoted to hearing cheap American pop music. All over the world subtle arts and handicrafts are dying out. The tragedy is greatest when considering vanáyáḿcaramo’payogashca. formerly exquisite societies where aesthetics impacted every sphere of life such as in Japan and Indonesia. Countless skilled artisans all over the world have lost their heritage and been forced to do menial jobs due to the destruction of national economies by globalization. There should be maximum utilization of the physical, metaphysical and spiritual This is why the samaja movement is grounded in a cultural revolution. In actual fact Shrii Sarkar (the propounder of PROUT) spent potentialities of unit and collective bodies of human society. more time laying the foundation for a cultural revolution than He did in the economic and political fields. He did this by creating a new grammar and expanded vocabulary for the Bengali language and by composing over 5000 songs in just eight years. Furthermore Shrii Sarkar inaugurated a global university called Ananda Marga Gurukula in Ananda Nagar with the aim to create a new foundation based on justice, equality and spirituality for every academic discipline. As part of this massive project, plans were made for the creation of cultural universities so as to lay the foundations for a cultural and intellectual renaissance in every samaja. Shrii Sarkar was famous for saying that PROUT was a man-making and a woman-making mission. Thus far it has been only a few The evolution of the collective mind is much slower than the evolution of the individual mind. In individuals spiritual meditation reveals 5 parents and teachers who have looked upon their children with not just adoration but intuition and worked to manifest the latent beauty, kosas or levels of mind. However in the collective mind we do not find the evolution of all five levels of mind. In fact the collective mind is often service and spirituality in their children. PROUT makes it the duty of everyone in society. In this sense PROUT does not just give cultural and dominated by the cruder levels of mind. This has created a lot of animosity to the crowd or collective psychology in general amongst alienated economic rights but also gives tremendous responsibility for the blossoming of every member of a samaja, every community of a samaja, for intellectuals. In reality however, there is no real difference between the Superconscious (Unconscious) Mind of individual and collective the entire samaja, the entire world and the entire universe. Those who work tirelessly to fulfill these responsibilities are sadvipras or spiritual psychology and that of the Cosmic Mind. So at the higher levels of mental evolution, we are all one. This is why Shrii Sarkar enjoins each of us revolutionaries. that,You will have to carry the collectivity with you, because the collectivity is yours. The collectivity is not outside you – your future is For no one can say for certain that no great person might have emerged from among those wayward street children whom people are inseparably connected with the collective fortune. You must take the entire collectivity with you and move towards the sweetest radiance of the wont to slight and hate. Women who have turned to prostitution for the sake of their physical existence might have grown into noble new crimson dawn, beyond the veil of the darkest night. personalities if their agony had been appreciated sympathetically, and if they had been rehabilitated by society. But since capitalist society The solution then to the crudity of the collective mind lies not in condemnation but in education, evolution and sublimation of the has nothing to do with cardinal human values, a good number of great personalities are withering away in their embryonic stage. The Proutists collective psychology. Yoga bio-psychology (both on the individual and collective levels) is a new field revealed by Shrii Sarkar that explores will undertake to revive this neglected section of humanity. To them no sinner is contemptible, no one is a rogue. People turn into satans or the practical basis of psychology in endocrinology (science of hormone secretion) and spirituality. When combined with the new science of sinners when, for want of proper guidance, they are goaded by depraving propensities. The human mind goaded by depraving propensities is microvita and the power of mystical love (bhakti), the collective psychology of a society can be influenced and sublimated towards satan. If their propensities are sublimated, they will no longer be satans; they will be transformed into gods. Every course of action of society benevolence, unity, divine love and Pure Consciousness. This will lead to not just a revolution in the collective psychology but also in the ought to be judged with an eye to the dictum “Human beings are divine children.” evolution of the higher levels of mind. Similarly, on the collective level, there are many societies and communities that are scorned such as colonized indigenous If we want to encourage rationality and rationalization on the physical level, we must avoid thought-waves which originate on the communities with high rates of alcoholism and violence. In reality when we study the past history of those communities we find they lived a life physical plane and concern physical objects. On the psychic level, we must avoid various psychic forms, psychic ideas, psychic movements, of ecological, personal and social balance. Naturally there were some harmful practices but by far their societies were usually more humane and also those aspects of telepathy or clairvoyance which originate on the psychic plane. One can only be truly rational, if one has and socially benevolent than those of the wealthiest nations. As the civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, once remarked that only someone so transcended the various limited propensities, sentiments and instincts of the mind. This is why only the thought-wave which emanates from arrogant as a white man could go to a place like Tahiti where there was no poverty, no crime and hardly any conflict and call the people there the spiritual plane of Pure Consciousness (where subject, object and their relationships have all merged into one flow of Bliss.) will save “primitive people.” It is these indigenous societies blighted by colonialism and endless exploitation that are the main target of the samaja humanity from the devastating influence of dogma, which separates humans from humans, which creates hindrances in the remoulding of program for social renaissance and revolution. human society into a single existence. This process of rationalization should be developed through the intrinsic human potential of remodeling PROUT does not merely want to go back to the past. Rather it seeks to take the best of agricultural, small-scale industrial practices of every aspect of mind. We must do this in the near future. The problem is a peculiar one, but we must solve it, because it has created so many the past and combine them with today’s technology in a way that does not destroy the environment. How this can be possible was shown in troubles, so many divisions in human society – so many sanguinary battles, so much warfare. This problem may disturb the peace of the entire the detailed agricultural, ecological and industrial plans for the developed of a PROUT eco-village in Ananda Nagar, in one of the poorest universe. So we will have to solve this problem and create a new world in all the three emanations of life – physical, psychic and spiritual. districts in East India. Based on this role model plans have been made for the development of similar ecovillages or Master Units all over the In this regard we can note that capitalism also exists in the spiritual realm. Some people neglect their family and society and go to caves world. in the mountains and perform arduous penance to fulfill their longing for spiritual emancipation. Because of their selfishness, they keep This movement for the blossoming of individuals and communities is concerned not just the physical level but the psychic (intellectual, spiritual knowledge to themselves and do not bother to arouse spiritual awareness in individual and collective life. Often the elite classes when artistic, emotional, intuitional) level as well. There are countless hidden potentialities in the human mind. A mind, driven by many psychic faced with the meaninglessness of their lives turn to spirituality. However, their aim is to selfishly enjoy spiritual pleasure just as they enjoy pabula is the prisoner of innumerable predicaments. In such a condition the human mind becomes extroversial, multi-directional, weak and material pleasure. The benevolence, morality and sacrifice for suffering humanity demanded by true spirituality they ignore. This is capitalism static. It is propelled by the principle of selfish pleasure, which leads it down the path of counter-evolution. It always adopts an analytical in the spiritual sphere. It is antithetical to the very spirit of spiritual practices, which is: approach to life, never a synthetic one. As people have to satisfy their unrestrained psychic pabula with limited objects of wealth, they often Atma moksartham jagaddhitaya ca create interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. The collective psychology arising from many objectified human minds gives rise to social [Self-realization and service to humanity.] inequality, economic exploitation, political repression, religious bigotry, cultural perversion and the all-round degradation of the individual and To a spiritualist, everything – right from the Creator down to a small blade of grass – is the manifestation of Supreme Consciousness. society. Crude psychic pabula cause the degeneration of individual and collective mind, and thus bring about the downfall of the society. The state of equanimity is one of the main characteristics of spirituality. Without attaining this quality, one cannot establish oneself in the So psychic urges must not be objectified nor should they be suppressed; rather they must be channelized towards the Supreme supreme state, and one’s movement towards Supreme Consciousness will be hindered at every step. In ancient times many people found Desideratum through the proper psycho-spiritual approach. The Supreme Entity is always one – there is no room for duality in Infinity. In the themselves in this tragic predicament. psycho-spiritual approach the goal of psychic urges is always singular. With constant spiritual practice, the mind, with its thousand Genuine spiritual practice is the birthright of all people. In all spheres of collective life – economic, political, social, etc. – a scientific and propensities, becomes one-pointed and is goaded towards the Supreme Singular Entity. At this stage of advanced psycho-spiritual rational outlook is essential. The inculcation of cardinal human values is an urgent necessity. This is the demand of the age. Because such attainment, all the psychic urges with so many psychic pabula are channelled and converted into one psycho-spiritual pabulum – Cosmic higher values are lacking in social life, there are many incongruities and confusions in society. Consciousness. Today there is an urgent need for an all-round spiritual revolution in individual and collective life under the leadership of a group of Even in the realm of pure intellect we find that the vocabularies of so many languages are not being developed. Instead we find many accomplished and idealistic leaders. These leaders should be endowed with spiritual power, and their ideology should be based on the solid languages becoming extinct each year due to cultural imperialism. Even in more developed languages we find that vocabularies are rock of spirituality. Such highly qualified leaders are called sadvipras. They will ensure social progress in all countries in all ages. undeveloped when in comes to expressing subtler ideas, feelings and realizations. Rather due to corporate pseudo-culture we find that subtle All genuine spiritualists will have to adjust with the level of the dusty earth inspired by the spontaneous love of their hearts. They will words such as in Sanskrit and Chinese are becoming extinct even from the vocabulary of intellectuals. And when we look at the various have to share the wealth of their developed intellects with others to lighten the sorrows and sufferings of humanity. Through their guidance and intellectual fields we find that their materialistic foundations are losing meaning, creating a crisis of existence. At the same time academic leadership, human thinking will take a new turn and move along an entirely new path. The latent spiritual power in human beings will be specialization is increasing rapidly and causing narrow vision (both regarding the present and the history of discovery) even amongst awakened. Through their effort and inspiration, the new people of a new generation will be armed with a bold new optimism and vision of the scholars in the same general field. As some scholars like Baoventura de Sousa Santos and Water Mignolo have noted, it is no coincidence future, will march forward triumphantly.

12 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 13 COVER STORY forward higher human qualities. The utilize intellectual wealth, the better pronouncement. An ancient Vedic greater the spiritual attainment of for society. aphorism nicely expresses this individuals, and the more their Unfortunately, the free principle: “Even if a child says Wealth is potentialities are expressed, the acquisition and distribution of ideas something logical, it should be greater is the potential for a dynamic is often restricted so as to protect accepted. And even if the lotus born generally thought society. So liberty must be fully dogmas. Ayatollah Khomeni Brahma [the mythological creator of guaranteed in the spiritual realm of condemned Salmon Rushdie to the universe] says something of as material life. death for writing The Satanic Verses. illogical, it should be rejected like property, but we can Some may say that there are Soviet Premier Brezhnev sent Andre chaff.” spiritual seekers who distance Sakharov into exile for advocating While liberty must be upheld in also possess spiritual themselves from society, who civil liberties in the Soviet Union. the intellectual sphere, a few pursue their spiritual realization in Cardinal Ratzinger ordered Father constraints are necessary to forms of wealth – selfless the monastery, ashram or hermitage, Matthew Fox silenced for a year for discourage use of ideas and love, transcendent knowledge, and that these spiritualists do not propounding Creation Theology. information in ways that are give of the spiritual wealth they And Chinese Prime Minister Li injurious to others. For example, reverence for the divine, universal gain. This approach to spirituality Peng forced Fang Lizhi to admit to individuals should enjoy reasonable compassion, and inner peace. is no valid reason for society to limit becomes, it is said, a kind of “crimes of counterrevolutionary protection from slander or libel. And its acquisition. If someone acquires capitalism in the spiritual sphere, as propaganda” for expressing society should be protected from spiritual wealth in great measure it is acquisition of spiritual wealth prodemocracy views. those who abuse insider information their accumulation does nothing to for individual gain. It is true that B u t s u p p r e s s i o n o f or who propagate disinformation to ð Ravi Logan inhibit another from acquiring their such spiritual materialism may not controversial ideas is detrimental to further malicious activities. Also, it fill. directly benefit society. But it also human progress. Rather than is appropriate to not have access to Some societies, due to does not harm the society, so it does suppressing ideas that challenge pornography where children would ideological dogma, have suppressed not give reason to curtail liberty in orthodoxies, special opportunities be exposed to it; protections should liberty in the spiritual realm. In prior the spiritual realm. should be created to openly discuss be there, but not suppression. times, where patriarchy was and debate their merits or defects. It Freedom of expression does entrenched, women were often Liberty in the Intellectual is not the business of society nor of not mean the freedom to blurt out prevented from engaging in spiritual Sphere its leaders to place boundaries any form of self-expression Liberty practice. Suppression of spiritual Intellectual wealth, like around human knowledge. It is the regardless of the injury to others. spiritual wealth, is unlimited in business of society to promote the Freedom of expression means the amount. There is no end to the ideas, unbarred expansion of intellect. opportunity to bring forth one's own information, skills, and inspiration The authority in determining feelings, thoughts and ideas in an Limited or Unlimited available for humans to acquire, which ideas should be accepted, and effort to contribute to the welfare of People desire liberty. They Liberty can be defined as liberty was prevalent in enjoy or use. The more they acquire, which not, is human rationality not others. This should never be want unhindered scope for self- “unbarred and comprehensive communist countries. And full and the more they constructively scripture or doctrine or ecclesiastic suppressed. We may or may not development, self-expression, and expression”. In the process of freedom of spiritual belief and agree with the thoughts pursuit of happiness. Deprived of expressing themselves, people practice remains suppressed in of another, but we freedom, they rebel. Since the time a c q u i r e a n d u s e m a t e r i a l , many nations today. Such tyranny is s h o u l d l i s t e n of Voltaire and Jefferson, liberty has intellectual, and spiritual wealth or unacceptable. All human beings respectfully as long as been championed as a fundamental potentials. So in conceiving a should be free to read spiritual texts the intent of the person right, and much blood has been shed workable principle of liberty, we of their choice, or to practice their is benign. On the other to expand and secure its expression. need to evaluate how unbarred prayer, dhyana, zazen, zikur, hand, if a person has ill For liberty to be a meaningful social accumulation of each of these three vipassana, and vision quests. intentions towards principle, it cannot be equated with forms of wealth i.e., physical, The spiritual development of others or has no care for unrestrained license. We are entitled mental, and spiritual will impact the individuals has value not only in the harm they cause, to liberty, but not in unlimited common welfare. individual life, but in social life as then their expression must be curbed. measure. In any social structure, Liberty in the Spiritual Sphere well. Society benefited immensely restraints imposed by custom and from the lives of great spiritual F r e e d o m o f Consider first spiritual wealth. expression means law are necessary. But on what basis Wealth is generally thought of as personalities such as Francis of are such restraints to be established? Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Jalal- freedom to give forth material property, but we can also for the welfare of The proper principle for imposed possess spiritual forms of wealth ud-din Rumi, King Solomon, restraint is this: Liberty must not Rabindranath Tagore, and the Dalai others. Even if a selfless love, transcendent person's philosophy is extend so far that one person's knowledge, reverence for the divine, Lama. So it is in the interests of actions results in harm to others. In society to encourage spiritual defective, if their universal compassion, and inner intention is the good of what arenas, then, is there the peace. The nature of spiritual wealth seekers to develop and express their potential for liberty to bring harm? love and wisdom. This will lighten others, their expression is that it is of unlimited supply. There must be respectfully This needs to be determined. is no limit on its availability, so there the sufferings of humanity and bring

14 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 15 COVER STORY forward higher human qualities. The utilize intellectual wealth, the better pronouncement. An ancient Vedic greater the spiritual attainment of for society. aphorism nicely expresses this individuals, and the more their Unfortunately, the free principle: “Even if a child says Wealth is potentialities are expressed, the acquisition and distribution of ideas something logical, it should be greater is the potential for a dynamic is often restricted so as to protect accepted. And even if the lotus born generally thought society. So liberty must be fully dogmas. Ayatollah Khomeni Brahma [the mythological creator of guaranteed in the spiritual realm of condemned Salmon Rushdie to the universe] says something of as material life. death for writing The Satanic Verses. illogical, it should be rejected like property, but we can Some may say that there are Soviet Premier Brezhnev sent Andre chaff.” spiritual seekers who distance Sakharov into exile for advocating While liberty must be upheld in also possess spiritual themselves from society, who civil liberties in the Soviet Union. the intellectual sphere, a few pursue their spiritual realization in Cardinal Ratzinger ordered Father constraints are necessary to forms of wealth – selfless the monastery, ashram or hermitage, Matthew Fox silenced for a year for discourage use of ideas and love, transcendent knowledge, and that these spiritualists do not propounding Creation Theology. information in ways that are give of the spiritual wealth they And Chinese Prime Minister Li injurious to others. For example, reverence for the divine, universal gain. This approach to spirituality Peng forced Fang Lizhi to admit to individuals should enjoy reasonable compassion, and inner peace. is no valid reason for society to limit becomes, it is said, a kind of “crimes of counterrevolutionary protection from slander or libel. And its acquisition. If someone acquires capitalism in the spiritual sphere, as propaganda” for expressing society should be protected from spiritual wealth in great measure it is acquisition of spiritual wealth prodemocracy views. those who abuse insider information their accumulation does nothing to for individual gain. It is true that B u t s u p p r e s s i o n o f or who propagate disinformation to ð Ravi Logan inhibit another from acquiring their such spiritual materialism may not controversial ideas is detrimental to further malicious activities. Also, it fill. directly benefit society. But it also human progress. Rather than is appropriate to not have access to Some societies, due to does not harm the society, so it does suppressing ideas that challenge pornography where children would ideological dogma, have suppressed not give reason to curtail liberty in orthodoxies, special opportunities be exposed to it; protections should liberty in the spiritual realm. In prior the spiritual realm. should be created to openly discuss be there, but not suppression. times, where patriarchy was and debate their merits or defects. It Freedom of expression does entrenched, women were often Liberty in the Intellectual is not the business of society nor of not mean the freedom to blurt out prevented from engaging in spiritual Sphere its leaders to place boundaries any form of self-expression Liberty practice. Suppression of spiritual Intellectual wealth, like around human knowledge. It is the regardless of the injury to others. spiritual wealth, is unlimited in business of society to promote the Freedom of expression means the amount. There is no end to the ideas, unbarred expansion of intellect. opportunity to bring forth one's own information, skills, and inspiration The authority in determining feelings, thoughts and ideas in an Limited or Unlimited available for humans to acquire, which ideas should be accepted, and effort to contribute to the welfare of People desire liberty. They Liberty can be defined as liberty was prevalent in enjoy or use. The more they acquire, which not, is human rationality not others. This should never be want unhindered scope for self- “unbarred and comprehensive communist countries. And full and the more they constructively scripture or doctrine or ecclesiastic suppressed. We may or may not development, self-expression, and expression”. In the process of freedom of spiritual belief and agree with the thoughts pursuit of happiness. Deprived of expressing themselves, people practice remains suppressed in of another, but we freedom, they rebel. Since the time a c q u i r e a n d u s e m a t e r i a l , many nations today. Such tyranny is s h o u l d l i s t e n of Voltaire and Jefferson, liberty has intellectual, and spiritual wealth or unacceptable. All human beings respectfully as long as been championed as a fundamental potentials. So in conceiving a should be free to read spiritual texts the intent of the person right, and much blood has been shed workable principle of liberty, we of their choice, or to practice their is benign. On the other to expand and secure its expression. need to evaluate how unbarred prayer, dhyana, zazen, zikur, hand, if a person has ill For liberty to be a meaningful social accumulation of each of these three vipassana, and vision quests. intentions towards principle, it cannot be equated with forms of wealth i.e., physical, The spiritual development of others or has no care for unrestrained license. We are entitled mental, and spiritual will impact the individuals has value not only in the harm they cause, to liberty, but not in unlimited common welfare. individual life, but in social life as then their expression must be curbed. measure. In any social structure, Liberty in the Spiritual Sphere well. Society benefited immensely restraints imposed by custom and from the lives of great spiritual F r e e d o m o f Consider first spiritual wealth. expression means law are necessary. But on what basis Wealth is generally thought of as personalities such as Francis of are such restraints to be established? Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Jalal- freedom to give forth material property, but we can also for the welfare of The proper principle for imposed possess spiritual forms of wealth ud-din Rumi, King Solomon, restraint is this: Liberty must not Rabindranath Tagore, and the Dalai others. Even if a selfless love, transcendent person's philosophy is extend so far that one person's knowledge, reverence for the divine, Lama. So it is in the interests of actions results in harm to others. In society to encourage spiritual defective, if their universal compassion, and inner intention is the good of what arenas, then, is there the peace. The nature of spiritual wealth seekers to develop and express their potential for liberty to bring harm? love and wisdom. This will lighten others, their expression is that it is of unlimited supply. There must be respectfully This needs to be determined. is no limit on its availability, so there the sufferings of humanity and bring

14 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 15 mental sphere, the freedom to must not be so drastically curtailed individual is inspired to establish a accumulation. Some practical acquire wealth in the physical that people's incentive for foundation that would endow means that a society may use to sphere cannot be unrestrained. p r o d u c t i v e w o r k a n d scholarships, or fund special check over-accumulation include The supply of physical resources is innovative initiative gets hampered. medical research, or promote public placing ceilings on bank balances l i m i t e d , s o u n r e s t r i c t e d Any attempt to impose economic art projects, or support development and shareholdings, or setting limits accumulation of physical wealth equality is to the benefit of no one. projects in backward economies. on personal assets and properties. leads to excess for some and Without material incentives for The society is then obligated to give Indirect control on excessive impoverishment for others. Where productive workers and for skilled the permission to give its blessings material accumulation can also be overly much freedom is given to workers, a vibrant economy is to this special accumulation. b r o u g h t a b o u t t h r o u g h individuals to accumulate material impossible, and those who suffer Constraining Greed decentralizing economic activity riches, the physical, mental and most are those most disadvantaged. If it is necessary to constrain and promoting cooperative spiritual balance and development People should have ample the liberty to accumulate physical enterprise. Economic restructuring of the larger society gets hampered. scope to acquire commodities, wealth, then we must ask, what is the of this nature would put an end to the T h i s i s , i n f a c t , t h e services, and enjoyments according proper means that the society should global spanning conglomerates that characteristic condition of most to the material standards of their employ to check greed? Greed is a operate with barely controlled capitalist societies. Due to the place and time. They also have human tendency that, like bigotry, greed. freedom to accumulate wealth legitimate right to accumulate malice, and thirst for power needs to When the greed of a few permitted under capitalism, there wealth for their future security. be carefully controlled. obstructs the common good, the arises widespread exploitation and Their liberty to accumulate should It is always acceptable to make state must take action be it moral inequity and many are denied full be limited only when further a moral appeal to those whose greed persuasion, legal coercion, or s c o p e f o r t h e i r a l l - r o u n d accumulation adversely affects impairs social progress. Gandhi did economic restructuring. But actions development. A few enjoy immense collective interests. this in India, asking big landowners taken by the state cannot eliminate riches, but others struggle to Even then, if there is a sound to redistribute their lands to the poor. the psychological roots of greed; maintain their existence. Poverty reason for further accumulation, if In some cases, his appeals fell on neither law nor police power can and lack of opportunity exist, in the not will be illumined. Prejudice, their acquired wealth may be put to sympathetic ears. But, for the most cure people of their compulsion to heard. Freedom of expression is a main, because capitalism allows the social good, then the society should basic human right. dogma and close-mindedness have part, they did not. His Bhudan accumulate and hoard. For this, a big entrepreneurs, financiers, and give special permission to acquire Movement had limited success; spiritual approach may prove Dealing with Destructive Ideas no scope in a true society. landowners excessive scope to beyond the recognized limits. A moral appeals alone could not assure preferable. Not all ideas, not all Instead there must be open-minded profit from private ownership of person may have worked hard, using social justice. People hoard wealth because expressions, are beneficial; there are evaluation of new ideas, utilizing a land, factories and markets. valuable skills, been paid well for There is need for two further their hunger for happiness also those expressions which are sense of discrimination. Capitalists economists give their valuable work and saved or approaches to control greed: the first mistakenly finds outlet in material demonical. For example, there are Liberation of Intellect much importance to the right to invested much of their earnings. legal, the second spiritual. Given the accumulation. They believe that the those who say only certain races Liberation of the intellect is the private accumulation of material Beyond a certain point, it may be the obligation of the state to protect more they have, the happier or the should be allowed to have power or a all-around development in the wealth. But what of the right to public policy to tax heavily those collective interests, it has clear more secure they will be. But, as full place in the society, that certain psychic sphere which leads to enjoy freedom from want, to have savings or investments. But, let us obligation to enact laws and policies Thomas Aquinas observed, “The races are inferior. Such a philosophy liberation from psychic bonds. If the ample opportunity for one's all- say, that enterprising and talented greed for gain knows no limit and is detrimental to human society. intellect of a person is truly t o r e s t r i c t m a t e r i a l round growth? Is not the right to tends to infinity.” Because human What to do when a detrimental liberated, their intellect takes a exist and develop a basic right? desire for happiness is limitless, philosophy comes along? Do you divine perspective. They no longer What value does liberty have if one's finite amounts of wealth however damn the people who are espousing hold to dogmas. For them, the nature downtrodden condition makes its great they may be cannot fully this philosophy and suppress their of living beings is understood. There expression meaningless? quench people's mental craving. literature? No, it is a poor approach. is no prejudice, and every living PROUT puts forward the Ultimately, satiation of our longings It never works. What you do is give being is respected. Intellect becomes following principle as a basis for must come from an inner spiritual rational demonstration of the value devoid of dogmas and fetters. defining liberty in the physical experience of that which is truly of your philosophy and your rational When the intellect of a person sphere: “The universe is the joint infinite. critique of the failings of the is freed from bondage due to the p r o p e r t y o f a l l . A l l h a v e For this reason, accumulation proposed philosophy. In this way, if influence of ideation upon the usufructuary right to this joint of spiritual wealth provides the best you maintain an educated populace, Supreme, then their expression will property and the right to its antidote to material greed. Society they will clearly see those ideas that be free from all narrow thinking, enjoyment, but none have the right should encourage its greed-obsessed are faulty and pay them no heed. their expression will be sublime, to abuse. Therefore, none should be members to channelize their There should be objective their intellect free of dogmas, their allowed to hoard wealth without the gluttony for mundane wealth into a evaluation and exploration of all expression free of narrow habits. permission of society.” thirsting for inner peace, for an new ideas. If thought is suppressed This freedom is true freedom. In implementing this principle, opened heart, and for communion there is bound to be reaction. In a Liberty in the Physical Sphere r e s t r i c t i o n s o n m a t e r i a l with the Divine. They will not then healthy society new ideas can be While there should be full accumulation are necessary to feel that their freedom is being examined without fear, for in the liberty of belief and practice in the insure that the basic necessities and restricted but will come to enjoy a light of reason what is for the spiritual sphere, and full liberty to amenities of life are available to all. freedom that is far greater. welfare of living beings and what is obtain and express knowledge in the Yet liberty in the physical sphere

16 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 17 mental sphere, the freedom to must not be so drastically curtailed individual is inspired to establish a accumulation. Some practical acquire wealth in the physical that people's incentive for foundation that would endow means that a society may use to sphere cannot be unrestrained. p r o d u c t i v e w o r k a n d scholarships, or fund special check over-accumulation include The supply of physical resources is innovative initiative gets hampered. medical research, or promote public placing ceilings on bank balances l i m i t e d , s o u n r e s t r i c t e d Any attempt to impose economic art projects, or support development and shareholdings, or setting limits accumulation of physical wealth equality is to the benefit of no one. projects in backward economies. on personal assets and properties. leads to excess for some and Without material incentives for The society is then obligated to give Indirect control on excessive impoverishment for others. Where productive workers and for skilled the permission to give its blessings material accumulation can also be overly much freedom is given to workers, a vibrant economy is to this special accumulation. b r o u g h t a b o u t t h r o u g h individuals to accumulate material impossible, and those who suffer Constraining Greed decentralizing economic activity riches, the physical, mental and most are those most disadvantaged. If it is necessary to constrain and promoting cooperative spiritual balance and development People should have ample the liberty to accumulate physical enterprise. Economic restructuring of the larger society gets hampered. scope to acquire commodities, wealth, then we must ask, what is the of this nature would put an end to the T h i s i s , i n f a c t , t h e services, and enjoyments according proper means that the society should global spanning conglomerates that characteristic condition of most to the material standards of their employ to check greed? Greed is a operate with barely controlled capitalist societies. Due to the place and time. They also have human tendency that, like bigotry, greed. freedom to accumulate wealth legitimate right to accumulate malice, and thirst for power needs to When the greed of a few permitted under capitalism, there wealth for their future security. be carefully controlled. obstructs the common good, the arises widespread exploitation and Their liberty to accumulate should It is always acceptable to make state must take action be it moral inequity and many are denied full be limited only when further a moral appeal to those whose greed persuasion, legal coercion, or s c o p e f o r t h e i r a l l - r o u n d accumulation adversely affects impairs social progress. Gandhi did economic restructuring. But actions development. A few enjoy immense collective interests. this in India, asking big landowners taken by the state cannot eliminate riches, but others struggle to Even then, if there is a sound to redistribute their lands to the poor. the psychological roots of greed; maintain their existence. Poverty reason for further accumulation, if In some cases, his appeals fell on neither law nor police power can and lack of opportunity exist, in the not will be illumined. Prejudice, their acquired wealth may be put to sympathetic ears. But, for the most cure people of their compulsion to heard. Freedom of expression is a main, because capitalism allows the social good, then the society should basic human right. dogma and close-mindedness have part, they did not. His Bhudan accumulate and hoard. For this, a big entrepreneurs, financiers, and give special permission to acquire Movement had limited success; spiritual approach may prove Dealing with Destructive Ideas no scope in a true society. landowners excessive scope to beyond the recognized limits. A moral appeals alone could not assure preferable. Not all ideas, not all Instead there must be open-minded profit from private ownership of person may have worked hard, using social justice. People hoard wealth because expressions, are beneficial; there are evaluation of new ideas, utilizing a land, factories and markets. valuable skills, been paid well for There is need for two further their hunger for happiness also those expressions which are sense of discrimination. Capitalists economists give their valuable work and saved or approaches to control greed: the first mistakenly finds outlet in material demonical. For example, there are Liberation of Intellect much importance to the right to invested much of their earnings. legal, the second spiritual. Given the accumulation. They believe that the those who say only certain races Liberation of the intellect is the private accumulation of material Beyond a certain point, it may be the obligation of the state to protect more they have, the happier or the should be allowed to have power or a all-around development in the wealth. But what of the right to public policy to tax heavily those collective interests, it has clear more secure they will be. But, as full place in the society, that certain psychic sphere which leads to enjoy freedom from want, to have savings or investments. But, let us obligation to enact laws and policies Thomas Aquinas observed, “The races are inferior. Such a philosophy liberation from psychic bonds. If the ample opportunity for one's all- say, that enterprising and talented greed for gain knows no limit and is detrimental to human society. intellect of a person is truly t o r e s t r i c t m a t e r i a l round growth? Is not the right to tends to infinity.” Because human What to do when a detrimental liberated, their intellect takes a exist and develop a basic right? desire for happiness is limitless, philosophy comes along? Do you divine perspective. They no longer What value does liberty have if one's finite amounts of wealth however damn the people who are espousing hold to dogmas. For them, the nature downtrodden condition makes its great they may be cannot fully this philosophy and suppress their of living beings is understood. There expression meaningless? quench people's mental craving. literature? No, it is a poor approach. is no prejudice, and every living PROUT puts forward the Ultimately, satiation of our longings It never works. What you do is give being is respected. Intellect becomes following principle as a basis for must come from an inner spiritual rational demonstration of the value devoid of dogmas and fetters. defining liberty in the physical experience of that which is truly of your philosophy and your rational When the intellect of a person sphere: “The universe is the joint infinite. critique of the failings of the is freed from bondage due to the p r o p e r t y o f a l l . A l l h a v e For this reason, accumulation proposed philosophy. In this way, if influence of ideation upon the usufructuary right to this joint of spiritual wealth provides the best you maintain an educated populace, Supreme, then their expression will property and the right to its antidote to material greed. Society they will clearly see those ideas that be free from all narrow thinking, enjoyment, but none have the right should encourage its greed-obsessed are faulty and pay them no heed. their expression will be sublime, to abuse. Therefore, none should be members to channelize their There should be objective their intellect free of dogmas, their allowed to hoard wealth without the gluttony for mundane wealth into a evaluation and exploration of all expression free of narrow habits. permission of society.” thirsting for inner peace, for an new ideas. If thought is suppressed This freedom is true freedom. In implementing this principle, opened heart, and for communion there is bound to be reaction. In a Liberty in the Physical Sphere r e s t r i c t i o n s o n m a t e r i a l with the Divine. They will not then healthy society new ideas can be While there should be full accumulation are necessary to feel that their freedom is being examined without fear, for in the liberty of belief and practice in the insure that the basic necessities and restricted but will come to enjoy a light of reason what is for the spiritual sphere, and full liberty to amenities of life are available to all. freedom that is far greater. welfare of living beings and what is obtain and express knowledge in the Yet liberty in the physical sphere

16 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 17 A PROUTIST PERSPECTIVE abortion to preserve their own social only makes it dangerous for women return it to the days of back alley coat status. who then must resort to illegal hanger abortions in which many iii. Coordinated Cooperation abortions, and makes it inaccessible women died or were seriously ð Mirra Price —I want to quote here Shrii Prabhat to poor women, making it go maimed in operations often Ranjan Sarkar: “We will no longer diametrically against Prout’s view p e r f o r m e d b y u n s k i l l e d passively tolerate injustice, torture, which seeks to provide minimum practitioners. Secondly, making exploitation, insults and hatred at the necessities for all, not to take away abortion illegal will not prevent the hands of male exploiters. The medical access from the poor. rich or even some in the middle class women’s liberation movements in I will address just a few key from having access to abortions; it the East and West have originated points which seem to be pivotal in will only prevent poor women from out of this changed collective this discussion. having this option. Therefore, the Abortion psychology. The auspicious signs of The Inadvisability issue is one of social justice. Making the awakening of women are clearly of Criminalizing Abortion abortion illegal would take abortion visible in every sphere of social life” Historically, women around back to being another exclusive right To Legalise or Not to Legalise (Awakening of Women, p.120). the world have tried to end their of the privileged One Per Cent, iv. Neo-humanism — In unintended pregnancies whether or making it a classist proposal, which countries that have instituted bans not abortion is legal, often would be regressive rather than Prout Journal strictly sticks to its motto of being a journal of Proutistic views and Neo- on abortions, there are serious jeopardizing their safety and health progressive. humanistic analysis ever since its inception in 1964. In the previous issue a Proutistic problems with street children as in by self-inducing or seeking a Shrii Sarkar’s following quote perspective on abortion was expressed. In this issue we present another view on the Brazil, skyrocketing deaths of dangerous illegal procedure. While explains why banning prostitution women from illegal abortions as in there is very little correlation would not be advisable. same issue. At this point of time these are two views as expressed by the writers R o m a n i a , a n d i n c r e a s e d In India prostitution has been on the subject. They appear essentially to be similar although some differences between abortion legality and malnutrition and poverty. The end abortion incidence, there is a strong outlawed, but every rational person of opinion are observed. Hopefully in the not too distant a future a Proutistic result is more suffering and deaths correlation between abortion knows that it cannot be stopped by consensus on the subject would evolve…... [Eds] than when there was no ban on legality and abortion safety. legal means. Poor women who once abortion. Therefore, it is my contention that to lived in red-light districts have only After having gone through the With high unemployment, China there are now as many as 120 3. The impugned article uses a make abortion illegal would not fled out of fear of the law to article against Abortion published in under employment and cuts to or 140 boys for every 100 girls narrow moral lens, applying the lessen the occurrences of abortion; respectable localities. As a result the the New Delhi Prout Journal in already inadequate social safety despite a ban on gender-based principle of ahimsa (non-killing) in rather it would only cause undue sin which was previously confined to March 2014, I feel personally, that as nets, how do mothers support abortion (Davies, Jan. 14, 2014). a rigid manner, ignoring the larger harm and death to those who must certain areas is now spreading to a Woman Proutist, a different unplanned children? With the wage M e d i c a l / P s y c h o l o g i c a l societal and moral context—the seek illegal abortions. other parts of town. In order to viewpoint also needs to be presented gap between men and women, aspect—If all women are forced to increased harm and death that would Firstly, I believe that to prevent eradicate this sinful occupation in to the article. Below I list a few of the women earn less already. Without bring to term all pregnancies, except ensue if abortion were banned. abortion by making it illegal would India, it will be necessary to points on which I and other Women paid maternity leave, how will in the most extreme circumstances 4. Legislating morality is Proutists take issue. single mothers, especially, support of potential maternal or fetus death, rarely effective, as the stance against 1. There is very little mention children? What about affordable some women may experience undue making prostitution illegal. Also the o f s t a t i s t i c s , a n d i n s t e a d child care? That is an issue that suffering from medical conditions pictures of fetuses interspersed in inflammatory photographs (pictures prevents many women from being that create problem pregnancies. If the article are objectionable. Using of fetuses) and biased testimony able to work to support their abortion were illegal, more of these similar photos is a standard tactic from women have been used. Many children. What about adoption? women would have to experience of ultra-conservative right-to-life young women are conditioned by Adoption often becomes another this suffering. Victims of rape and fanatics in the United States, who the pseudo-culture to focus on capitalistic business, buying and incest are often too traumatized to make huge placards with fetus making their bodies look like selling babies as commodities on the give birth to a child from this photos to shove in the faces of ultrathin magazine models. This is a open market. Who can prevent the wounding crime. anyone in the vicinity of a women's clear case of exploitation and mass capitalists from controlling the baby There is currently a War on health clinic. It smacks of media psychological conditioning. trade? Women in the United States in irresponsible, sensationalized media It can only be addressed by Who will pay for these homes which rape is being trivialized. The manipulation, and is inappropriate education. These are clearly isolated for unwed mothers that seem to be recent gang rapes in India and other subordination of women. cases, not representative of why the impugned article’s main solution countries help feed the stigma Of course, no one favors women usually consider abortion. proposed to the problem? women feel who are victims of these abortion as a first choice in any 2. The article published in ii. C u l t u r a l / S o c i e t a l crimes. Additionally, many women, situation in which a pregnancy March issue misses or entirely issues—What about the thousands young women, especially, may feel becomes problematic. It is a last ignores some key issues, namely: of female fetuses aborted in India so much shame and remorse at resort, when all other options have i. Socio-economics – How and China, for example, due to having become pregnant out of failed. Prevention is much will poor women pay for abortions if males being more favored in wedlock that they cannot handle preferable, i.e., providing proper sex abortion goes underground? Who society? Abortion is illegal in many bringing the baby to term. Often education and birth control foots the bill if abortion is of these countries where the practice family members and other education. However, to make criminalized? is widespread. In parts of India and significant others may encourage abortion illegal solves nothing. It 18 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 19 A PROUTIST PERSPECTIVE abortion to preserve their own social only makes it dangerous for women return it to the days of back alley coat status. who then must resort to illegal hanger abortions in which many iii. Coordinated Cooperation abortions, and makes it inaccessible women died or were seriously ð Mirra Price —I want to quote here Shrii Prabhat to poor women, making it go maimed in operations often Ranjan Sarkar: “We will no longer diametrically against Prout’s view p e r f o r m e d b y u n s k i l l e d passively tolerate injustice, torture, which seeks to provide minimum practitioners. Secondly, making exploitation, insults and hatred at the necessities for all, not to take away abortion illegal will not prevent the hands of male exploiters. The medical access from the poor. rich or even some in the middle class women’s liberation movements in I will address just a few key from having access to abortions; it the East and West have originated points which seem to be pivotal in will only prevent poor women from out of this changed collective this discussion. having this option. Therefore, the Abortion psychology. The auspicious signs of The Inadvisability issue is one of social justice. Making the awakening of women are clearly of Criminalizing Abortion abortion illegal would take abortion visible in every sphere of social life” Historically, women around back to being another exclusive right To Legalise or Not to Legalise (Awakening of Women, p.120). the world have tried to end their of the privileged One Per Cent, iv. Neo-humanism — In unintended pregnancies whether or making it a classist proposal, which countries that have instituted bans not abortion is legal, often would be regressive rather than Prout Journal strictly sticks to its motto of being a journal of Proutistic views and Neo- on abortions, there are serious jeopardizing their safety and health progressive. humanistic analysis ever since its inception in 1964. In the previous issue a Proutistic problems with street children as in by self-inducing or seeking a Shrii Sarkar’s following quote perspective on abortion was expressed. In this issue we present another view on the Brazil, skyrocketing deaths of dangerous illegal procedure. While explains why banning prostitution women from illegal abortions as in there is very little correlation would not be advisable. same issue. At this point of time these are two views as expressed by the writers R o m a n i a , a n d i n c r e a s e d In India prostitution has been on the subject. They appear essentially to be similar although some differences between abortion legality and malnutrition and poverty. The end abortion incidence, there is a strong outlawed, but every rational person of opinion are observed. Hopefully in the not too distant a future a Proutistic result is more suffering and deaths correlation between abortion knows that it cannot be stopped by consensus on the subject would evolve…... [Eds] than when there was no ban on legality and abortion safety. legal means. Poor women who once abortion. Therefore, it is my contention that to lived in red-light districts have only After having gone through the With high unemployment, China there are now as many as 120 3. The impugned article uses a make abortion illegal would not fled out of fear of the law to article against Abortion published in under employment and cuts to or 140 boys for every 100 girls narrow moral lens, applying the lessen the occurrences of abortion; respectable localities. As a result the the New Delhi Prout Journal in already inadequate social safety despite a ban on gender-based principle of ahimsa (non-killing) in rather it would only cause undue sin which was previously confined to March 2014, I feel personally, that as nets, how do mothers support abortion (Davies, Jan. 14, 2014). a rigid manner, ignoring the larger harm and death to those who must certain areas is now spreading to a Woman Proutist, a different unplanned children? With the wage M e d i c a l / P s y c h o l o g i c a l societal and moral context—the seek illegal abortions. other parts of town. In order to viewpoint also needs to be presented gap between men and women, aspect—If all women are forced to increased harm and death that would Firstly, I believe that to prevent eradicate this sinful occupation in to the article. Below I list a few of the women earn less already. Without bring to term all pregnancies, except ensue if abortion were banned. abortion by making it illegal would India, it will be necessary to points on which I and other Women paid maternity leave, how will in the most extreme circumstances 4. Legislating morality is Proutists take issue. single mothers, especially, support of potential maternal or fetus death, rarely effective, as the stance against 1. There is very little mention children? What about affordable some women may experience undue making prostitution illegal. Also the o f s t a t i s t i c s , a n d i n s t e a d child care? That is an issue that suffering from medical conditions pictures of fetuses interspersed in inflammatory photographs (pictures prevents many women from being that create problem pregnancies. If the article are objectionable. Using of fetuses) and biased testimony able to work to support their abortion were illegal, more of these similar photos is a standard tactic from women have been used. Many children. What about adoption? women would have to experience of ultra-conservative right-to-life young women are conditioned by Adoption often becomes another this suffering. Victims of rape and fanatics in the United States, who the pseudo-culture to focus on capitalistic business, buying and incest are often too traumatized to make huge placards with fetus making their bodies look like selling babies as commodities on the give birth to a child from this photos to shove in the faces of ultrathin magazine models. This is a open market. Who can prevent the wounding crime. anyone in the vicinity of a women's clear case of exploitation and mass capitalists from controlling the baby There is currently a War on health clinic. It smacks of media psychological conditioning. trade? Women in the United States in irresponsible, sensationalized media It can only be addressed by Who will pay for these homes which rape is being trivialized. The manipulation, and is inappropriate education. These are clearly isolated for unwed mothers that seem to be recent gang rapes in India and other subordination of women. cases, not representative of why the impugned article’s main solution countries help feed the stigma Of course, no one favors women usually consider abortion. proposed to the problem? women feel who are victims of these abortion as a first choice in any 2. The article published in ii. C u l t u r a l / S o c i e t a l crimes. Additionally, many women, situation in which a pregnancy March issue misses or entirely issues—What about the thousands young women, especially, may feel becomes problematic. It is a last ignores some key issues, namely: of female fetuses aborted in India so much shame and remorse at resort, when all other options have i. Socio-economics – How and China, for example, due to having become pregnant out of failed. Prevention is much will poor women pay for abortions if males being more favored in wedlock that they cannot handle preferable, i.e., providing proper sex abortion goes underground? Who society? Abortion is illegal in many bringing the baby to term. Often education and birth control foots the bill if abortion is of these countries where the practice family members and other education. However, to make criminalized? is widespread. In parts of India and significant others may encourage abortion illegal solves nothing. It 18 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 19 eliminate the vaeshya (capitalist) restrictive, and were highest in Latin pregnancies in general, merely, that Brazil. In Brazil, many parentless According to Time magazine, the concerned with making a profit than social system, because in eighty per America and Africa where laws it be a last ditch measure. children roam the streets in gangs, global unemployment rate is over in appropriately placing babies in cent of cases the cause of were more restrictive (Guttmacher In Romania abortion and oftentimes starving and certainly not 200 million (Frizell, Jan. 20, 2014). healthy families. According to a prostitution is economic injustice. Institute, 2014). contraception were banned for more getting the care, education and With unemployment and CNN report and other sources, many Of course if due to wrong education “Abortion rates were lowest in than 23 years (1966-1989). minimum necessities of life they underemployment significant children are stolen from their or base propensities people (both Western Europe – 12 per 1,000 – and What was the result? need. The UN estimates there are global problems, as well, women overseas homes and sold to parents men and women) give indulgence to highest in Eastern Europe – 43 per — The country’s population grew 100 million children who live and often struggle to support families in western countries, who, for a this sinful occupation, it will 1,000. The rate in North America more than two million. work on the streets, with seven even with partners. Alone, it is much number of reasons, may not be able continue even after the eradication was 19 per 1,000. Sedgh said she and — About 10,000 women died in million of them in Brazil (PBS more challenging. In the absence of to find babies to adopt in their home of economic injustices. So instead of colleagues found a link between illegal abortions. Religion & Ethics, June 15, 2007). social safety nets in developing and countries. Some of these children are enacting laws, the exploitation of the higher abortion rates and regions — An unknown number of In an ideal society based on in some developed countries, actually trafficked and sold into sex vaeshyas will have to be eliminated, with more restrictive legislation, mothers and doctors were Prout principles of providing women need to have the option of slavery (Voigt, K., September 13, as will other social injustices. And such as in Latin America and Africa. jailed for performing illegal minimum necessities to all, the need abortion. The final choice, though, 2013). Until a Prout society is instead of legally banning They also found that 95 to 97 percent abortions. for abortion would be lessened and needs to rest with the individual established, this shocking trafficking something, a healthy outlook should of abortions in those regions were — More than 70.000 orphans in the future, mostly eliminated, woman. of babies will continue. Banning be encouraged. (Human Society, unsafe” (Cheng, March 8, 2014). (abandoned by mothers after except for isolated medical cases. Dada Daneshananda has been abortion would only serve to Part 2, 1967). In the January issue of the birth) in state “care” However, world society is very far working in Africa for many years, increase it. In the same way, a ban on Rising Sun , a newsletter, published — Thousands of orphans who from this pinnacle of progress. establishing maternal health clinics. Empowering Women with He relates his experience of seeing abortion would not be advisable, by Women Proutists of North died in state children homes When women face the difficult Education and Access to shocking numbers of women die either. America, I made the following still lie buried in the back yard choice of terminating a pregnancy, from unsafe abortions in his Medical Care In countries in which abortion statement in an article on the of those institutions. they need to feel that they will be has been made illegal, abortion rates empowerment of women: able to raise the child in a healthy AMURT Ghana project that moved In today’s society, young — W h i l e s o m e d o c t o r s actually climb. According to the “In many states, women's way. him to believe that abortions need to people need much guidance and /nurses/self taught nurses were 2011 Guttmacher Report, abortion rights to abortion and preventive S i n c e w o m e n a r e be legal. education about their bodies and helping mothers for illegal rates are higher in countries where health care are being eroded by economically disadvantaged, Unless we are one of them, we sexuality, which, unfortunately, they abortions for free, many others abortion is illegal and nearly half of passage of repressive legislation” making only 77 cents on the dollar can never fully understand the do not always get. With the made a profitable business out all abortions worldwide are unsafe, (Price, Jan. 1, 2014, p. 2). I wish to compared with white men in the despair that drives a woman to seek breakdown of the family structure o f p e r f o r m i n g i l l e g a l with the vast majority in developing make clear that this brief statement United States, for example, they are to terminate the life that is growing and inadequate sex education abortions. (Furedi, Jan. 15, countries. Findings pointed to good was merely a reference to the already at a handicap in supporting a inside her. We don’t have the right to programs in schools, many teenage 2013). access to birth control in countries reactionary climate toward women child (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010). dismiss, underestimate and belittle girls become pregnant. Three in ten There are some countries in with more liberal abortion laws, by some U. S. legislators, in taking Many women are not provided with her position and what she is going teen American girls will get pregnant which abortion is restrictive, in which resulted in fewer unwanted away hard won rights to have some appropriate maternal leave before through. We can’t insist that our at least once before the age of 20, which it can only be performed in pregnancies. Abortion rates were control over our bodies. It was not, and after childbirth, as well. Women moral judgments and reasoning is which comes to 750,000 teen the case of possible death of the lowest in Western Europe where in any way, advocating abortion be who are single mothers may not superior to hers. While counseling pregnancies every year. This is one mother, in the case of rape, or a laws against abortion were less considered a solution to problem have community support. Very and support to keep the baby must be of the highest teen pregnancy rates in deformed fetus, for example as in young mothers, especially, may feel made available, the choice must be the western industrialized world (11 a social stigma in giving birth out of hers. A woman without access to facts about teen pregnancy). The wedlock, and may be encouraged by education, without economic statistics worldwide are even higher. families and others to have o p p o r t u n i t i e s , s e x u a l l y A woman’s likelihood of having an abortions, rather than having a child subordinated and kept in her place abortion is slightly elevated if she who would have an uncertain future, by harmful cultural practices an d lives in a developing region. In 2008, and which would put financial, attitudes and religious orthodoxy, there were 29 abortions per 1,000 emotional and physical stress on needs the society to start women aged 15–44 years in families. It is important to take into recognizing her rights. And rights developing countries, compared account the whole family system, are not worth much unless they are with 24 in the developed world including communities and medical legislated. The rights of a woman to (Guttmacher Report, 2011). personnel, when making decisions legal and safe and affordable For young girls, who are often about terminating pregnancies. abortion are a basic right that is isolated and lacking strong parental In the United States and many available to women in most guidance, some get pregnant because other countries, affordable child developed countries. Abortion is a of lack of knowledge of their bodies, care is not readily available. Even c o m p l e x i s s u e ( D a d a lack of birth control education, or middle class women find it Daneshananda, 2011). their wanting to find love in their increasingly difficult to pay for child What about adoption as an relationship with a boy and may feel care in order to work (Quart, Aug. 7, alternative to abortion? Adoption is getting pregnant will help keep that 2013). Paid maternity leave is not always a viable choice as it can relationship. Some may try to find provided to women in 178 countries be riddled with legal red tape, is love and connection by having Street Children in Brazil world-wide, but not the United e x p e n s i v e , a n d s o m e t i m e s babies and becoming mothers (Our States (Finnigan, Working Mother). controlled by agencies more Health, Our Futures). The 20 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 21 eliminate the vaeshya (capitalist) restrictive, and were highest in Latin pregnancies in general, merely, that Brazil. In Brazil, many parentless According to Time magazine, the concerned with making a profit than social system, because in eighty per America and Africa where laws it be a last ditch measure. children roam the streets in gangs, global unemployment rate is over in appropriately placing babies in cent of cases the cause of were more restrictive (Guttmacher In Romania abortion and oftentimes starving and certainly not 200 million (Frizell, Jan. 20, 2014). healthy families. According to a prostitution is economic injustice. Institute, 2014). contraception were banned for more getting the care, education and With unemployment and CNN report and other sources, many Of course if due to wrong education “Abortion rates were lowest in than 23 years (1966-1989). minimum necessities of life they underemployment significant children are stolen from their or base propensities people (both Western Europe – 12 per 1,000 – and What was the result? need. The UN estimates there are global problems, as well, women overseas homes and sold to parents men and women) give indulgence to highest in Eastern Europe – 43 per — The country’s population grew 100 million children who live and often struggle to support families in western countries, who, for a this sinful occupation, it will 1,000. The rate in North America more than two million. work on the streets, with seven even with partners. Alone, it is much number of reasons, may not be able continue even after the eradication was 19 per 1,000. Sedgh said she and — About 10,000 women died in million of them in Brazil (PBS more challenging. In the absence of to find babies to adopt in their home of economic injustices. So instead of colleagues found a link between illegal abortions. Religion & Ethics, June 15, 2007). social safety nets in developing and countries. Some of these children are enacting laws, the exploitation of the higher abortion rates and regions — An unknown number of In an ideal society based on in some developed countries, actually trafficked and sold into sex vaeshyas will have to be eliminated, with more restrictive legislation, mothers and doctors were Prout principles of providing women need to have the option of slavery (Voigt, K., September 13, as will other social injustices. And such as in Latin America and Africa. jailed for performing illegal minimum necessities to all, the need abortion. The final choice, though, 2013). Until a Prout society is instead of legally banning They also found that 95 to 97 percent abortions. for abortion would be lessened and needs to rest with the individual established, this shocking trafficking something, a healthy outlook should of abortions in those regions were — More than 70.000 orphans in the future, mostly eliminated, woman. of babies will continue. Banning be encouraged. (Human Society, unsafe” (Cheng, March 8, 2014). (abandoned by mothers after except for isolated medical cases. Dada Daneshananda has been abortion would only serve to Part 2, 1967). In the January issue of the birth) in state “care” However, world society is very far working in Africa for many years, increase it. In the same way, a ban on Rising Sun , a newsletter, published — Thousands of orphans who from this pinnacle of progress. establishing maternal health clinics. Empowering Women with He relates his experience of seeing abortion would not be advisable, by Women Proutists of North died in state children homes When women face the difficult Education and Access to shocking numbers of women die either. America, I made the following still lie buried in the back yard choice of terminating a pregnancy, from unsafe abortions in his Medical Care In countries in which abortion statement in an article on the of those institutions. they need to feel that they will be has been made illegal, abortion rates empowerment of women: able to raise the child in a healthy AMURT Ghana project that moved In today’s society, young — W h i l e s o m e d o c t o r s actually climb. According to the “In many states, women's way. him to believe that abortions need to people need much guidance and /nurses/self taught nurses were 2011 Guttmacher Report, abortion rights to abortion and preventive S i n c e w o m e n a r e be legal. education about their bodies and helping mothers for illegal rates are higher in countries where health care are being eroded by economically disadvantaged, Unless we are one of them, we sexuality, which, unfortunately, they abortions for free, many others abortion is illegal and nearly half of passage of repressive legislation” making only 77 cents on the dollar can never fully understand the do not always get. With the made a profitable business out all abortions worldwide are unsafe, (Price, Jan. 1, 2014, p. 2). I wish to compared with white men in the despair that drives a woman to seek breakdown of the family structure o f p e r f o r m i n g i l l e g a l with the vast majority in developing make clear that this brief statement United States, for example, they are to terminate the life that is growing and inadequate sex education abortions. (Furedi, Jan. 15, countries. Findings pointed to good was merely a reference to the already at a handicap in supporting a inside her. We don’t have the right to programs in schools, many teenage 2013). access to birth control in countries reactionary climate toward women child (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010). dismiss, underestimate and belittle girls become pregnant. Three in ten There are some countries in with more liberal abortion laws, by some U. S. legislators, in taking Many women are not provided with her position and what she is going teen American girls will get pregnant which abortion is restrictive, in which resulted in fewer unwanted away hard won rights to have some appropriate maternal leave before through. We can’t insist that our at least once before the age of 20, which it can only be performed in pregnancies. Abortion rates were control over our bodies. It was not, and after childbirth, as well. Women moral judgments and reasoning is which comes to 750,000 teen the case of possible death of the lowest in Western Europe where in any way, advocating abortion be who are single mothers may not superior to hers. While counseling pregnancies every year. This is one mother, in the case of rape, or a laws against abortion were less considered a solution to problem have community support. Very and support to keep the baby must be of the highest teen pregnancy rates in deformed fetus, for example as in young mothers, especially, may feel made available, the choice must be the western industrialized world (11 a social stigma in giving birth out of hers. A woman without access to facts about teen pregnancy). The wedlock, and may be encouraged by education, without economic statistics worldwide are even higher. families and others to have o p p o r t u n i t i e s , s e x u a l l y A woman’s likelihood of having an abortions, rather than having a child subordinated and kept in her place abortion is slightly elevated if she who would have an uncertain future, by harmful cultural practices an d lives in a developing region. In 2008, and which would put financial, attitudes and religious orthodoxy, there were 29 abortions per 1,000 emotional and physical stress on needs the society to start women aged 15–44 years in families. It is important to take into recognizing her rights. And rights developing countries, compared account the whole family system, are not worth much unless they are with 24 in the developed world including communities and medical legislated. The rights of a woman to (Guttmacher Report, 2011). personnel, when making decisions legal and safe and affordable For young girls, who are often about terminating pregnancies. abortion are a basic right that is isolated and lacking strong parental In the United States and many available to women in most guidance, some get pregnant because other countries, affordable child developed countries. Abortion is a of lack of knowledge of their bodies, care is not readily available. Even c o m p l e x i s s u e ( D a d a lack of birth control education, or middle class women find it Daneshananda, 2011). their wanting to find love in their increasingly difficult to pay for child What about adoption as an relationship with a boy and may feel care in order to work (Quart, Aug. 7, alternative to abortion? Adoption is getting pregnant will help keep that 2013). Paid maternity leave is not always a viable choice as it can relationship. Some may try to find provided to women in 178 countries be riddled with legal red tape, is love and connection by having Street Children in Brazil world-wide, but not the United e x p e n s i v e , a n d s o m e t i m e s babies and becoming mothers (Our States (Finnigan, Working Mother). controlled by agencies more Health, Our Futures). The 20 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 21 damaging these boys’ reputations. According to Emily's List, a uninformed, and a faulty application What we need are not high- In this case local high school political action committee, the of yama-niyama, especially with a sounding morality sermons, focused o ff i c i a l s a n d S t e u b e n v i l l e House of Representatives spent at narrow definition of “ahimsa”. on minutiae and with a narrow view governmental officials were least 52 days this past session Perhaps, like the Jains who apply of ahimsa. Instead, some of what we implicated in not only covering up a discussing laws that threatened to ahimsa so rigidly that they may wear do need is sex and preventative rape rape ring, but actively promoting it take away women's rights, such as masks so as not to kill microbes with education, increased spiritual (Blansett, March 8, 2014). There are the Personhood Amendment, which their breathing, it is my contention culture, a higher economic standard, many more examples, including a would define a fertilized human egg that a one-sided view, merely a closing of the wage gap, affordable local Hendersonville, North as a legal person, criminalize seeking not to kill fetuses (potential child care, paid maternity leave for Carolina girl whose family has had abortion with no exceptions, and human beings), can almost women, less violence in the media, to undergo similar death threats, would ban common forms of birth recklessly cause harm to women, and a better educational system for causing her to change schools, and control, stem cell research, and in- families, communities and society all, not just for the rich who can has drastically damaged her life vitro fertilization (Emily’s List). In in the process. No one wants to afford to send their kids to private (Weaver, December 12, 2013). This South Dakota, Republicans have advocate abortion indiscriminately. schools. We need to implement blaming of women for being raped proposed a bill to make murder of a In an ideal Prout society, in the PROUT and a neo-humanistic Family in Poverty in these cases and venerating boy doctor who does abortions legal future, hopefully, when minimum coordinated cooperation between the rapists who are also local sports (Bassett, June 6, 2013). necessities of life are guaranteed and sexes. heroes, further traumatizes girls transitioning from a capitalistic struggling in poverty, if the option of Republicans have also begun the locus of control is returned to I will leave you with Shrii P. R. who have undergone the horrifying culture to a spiritual Prout-based abortion is not available. It serves to eroding social safety nets for women local communities for the decisions Sarkar’s words about women. violation of rape. culture would be needed to close this perpetuate the legacy of poverty and and their children by cutting food that affect their people, we will have I believe He was a consummate gap. keeps many families in a poverty War on Women stamps, Medicaid, Aid to Dependent no need for abortion as a last ditch feminist. He stood against the To those who want the fathers cycle that continues through Currently, in the United States, Children and Head Start and measure. We will have happy, practice of sati, the dowry system to be involved in any decision about generations. some Republicans are waging a war education funding. healthy, and educated families as and for the rights of widows to abortion, it is important to In countries which have good on women. There is an initiative to The analysis given of the part of a larger society, in which the remarry, from the very beginning of understand that many men, either educational systems, such as reverse the 1973 Roe vs. Wade law feminist movement and some of its needs and rights of allwomen, men Ananda Marga. Let us follow His due to their young age, being Finland, Denmark and Norway, the which guarantees women the right leaders in the impugned article, I and children--are considered and example. “I said my sons and my incarcerated, being involved in other abortion rate is really low. Visser and to an abortion, and which also find uninformed and biased, and protected. daughters are just like two hands of relationships, or by not wanting to Ketting explain in “Contraception in protects women’s privacy under the worse, buying into the War on Conclusion mine. They are just like wings of a take on responsibilities of the Netherlands: The Low Abortion Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Women. I, especially, take issue I would much rather address bird. A bird having one wing cannot fatherhood, may simply not be in the Rate Explained” that factors like the Constitution (Roe vs. Wade Case with the assertion in the article, “I solutions to the problem of the fly” (The Awakening of Women). picture. For example, eight out of ten i n t r o d u c t i o n o f m o d e r n Brief Summary). personally have very little current War on Women, in which “Let womanhood be the vanguard of teenaged girls’ partners with whom contraceptives, good public health Additionally, some legislators knowledge of women's movements rape would become a less serious a new revolution which humanity they had the baby do not help raise insurance and an education are attempting to get rape redefined. as they exist today, but it is probably crime. Currently, only a small must achieve for a glorious new the child. Some girls and women are campaign for sex education Senate candidate, Representative safe to say that of the women percentage of rapists are prosecuted tomorrow” (A Few Problems Solved, victims of incest and rape, as well, targeting teenagers and a family Todd Akin (Republican-Missouri), involved in those movements who and an even smaller number of these Prt. 9). and, while still in the process of planning movement, make the stated in 2012 that “legitimate rape” identify themselves as feminists, the are convicted. If the dealing with this unbelievable Dutch abortion rate one of the lowest does not often lead to pregnancy majority support an unrestricted Republicans succeed, trauma, are conflicted about whether in the world (Guttmacher Report, because “the female body has ways legal right to abortion…”. I identify women and poor families or not to bring such a child into the 2014). In the United States, there are to try to shut that whole thing as “feminist”, yet I don't believe in will have fewer chances world without help or adequate 30.2 abortions per 1000 births; in the down.” This is not the first time the an unrestricted right to abortion. I t o d e v e l o p t h e i r financial and emotional support (11 Netherlands, there are only 3.9 biologically challenged senate believe the decision should be an potentials because of facts about teen pregnancy). a b o r t i o n s p e r 1 0 0 0 b i r t h s candidate tried to minimize the informed one, made in collaboration m a s s i v e c u t s t o Increasingly, especially in ( P r e v a l e n c e o f Te e n a g e d impact of rape. Last year, Akin with family, friends, medical education, Medicaid, African-American families, women Pregnancy). joined with GOP vice presidential personnel, and spiritual and food stamps and Head are the heads of one parent Another aspect of this issue candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as psychological advice. I don't S t a r t f u n d i n g . households. Since African- would be the situation when some two of the original co-sponsors of believe it should fall into the legal Unfortunately, U. S. American women make only 62 find themselves pregnant after the “No Taxpayer Funding for realm, however. As popular singer, culture and policies have cents on the dollar and Hispanic incest or rape. Women are Abortion Act,” a bill which, among Beyonce, sings on her new CD, “We undue influence on women 54 cents on the dollar, as increasingly more isolated and are other things, introduced the country should all be feminists!” Being a policies world-wide. compared with white American often re-victimized when they try to to the bizarre term “forcible feminist is merely viewing women Therefore, I believe that men, these mothers are already hold their rapists accountable, as rape.”(Kapin, A.) What these laws as human beings and partnering with rolling back the U.S. War disadvantaged economically (U.S. with the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio would do is to normalize rape women to build a new society based on Women would have Census Bureau, 2010). Without rape case in which a high school girl culture, and make such offenses as on coordinated cooperation, rather significant positive affordable child care, they are was gang raped by some members of sexual harassment, rape, peeping than subordinated cooperation. impact on many other doubly disadvantaged if they the high school football team. She tom incidents, and domestic Instead of trying to look at the countries in the world, become pregnant. How will they and her family received death violence seem less serious, making problem of abortion from a holistic, with respect to social afford another child? It is a dire threats because she reported the it even more difficult for women to non-patriarchal lens, I find this justice for women. future for families already rape, being thereby blamed for be safe from these violent crimes. a n a l y s i s s e n s a t i o n a l i z e d , 22 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 23 damaging these boys’ reputations. According to Emily's List, a uninformed, and a faulty application What we need are not high- In this case local high school political action committee, the of yama-niyama, especially with a sounding morality sermons, focused o ff i c i a l s a n d S t e u b e n v i l l e House of Representatives spent at narrow definition of “ahimsa”. on minutiae and with a narrow view governmental officials were least 52 days this past session Perhaps, like the Jains who apply of ahimsa. Instead, some of what we implicated in not only covering up a discussing laws that threatened to ahimsa so rigidly that they may wear do need is sex and preventative rape rape ring, but actively promoting it take away women's rights, such as masks so as not to kill microbes with education, increased spiritual (Blansett, March 8, 2014). There are the Personhood Amendment, which their breathing, it is my contention culture, a higher economic standard, many more examples, including a would define a fertilized human egg that a one-sided view, merely a closing of the wage gap, affordable local Hendersonville, North as a legal person, criminalize seeking not to kill fetuses (potential child care, paid maternity leave for Carolina girl whose family has had abortion with no exceptions, and human beings), can almost women, less violence in the media, to undergo similar death threats, would ban common forms of birth recklessly cause harm to women, and a better educational system for causing her to change schools, and control, stem cell research, and in- families, communities and society all, not just for the rich who can has drastically damaged her life vitro fertilization (Emily’s List). In in the process. No one wants to afford to send their kids to private (Weaver, December 12, 2013). This South Dakota, Republicans have advocate abortion indiscriminately. schools. We need to implement blaming of women for being raped proposed a bill to make murder of a In an ideal Prout society, in the PROUT and a neo-humanistic Family in Poverty in these cases and venerating boy doctor who does abortions legal future, hopefully, when minimum coordinated cooperation between the rapists who are also local sports (Bassett, June 6, 2013). necessities of life are guaranteed and sexes. heroes, further traumatizes girls transitioning from a capitalistic struggling in poverty, if the option of Republicans have also begun the locus of control is returned to I will leave you with Shrii P. R. who have undergone the horrifying culture to a spiritual Prout-based abortion is not available. It serves to eroding social safety nets for women local communities for the decisions Sarkar’s words about women. violation of rape. culture would be needed to close this perpetuate the legacy of poverty and and their children by cutting food that affect their people, we will have I believe He was a consummate gap. keeps many families in a poverty War on Women stamps, Medicaid, Aid to Dependent no need for abortion as a last ditch feminist. He stood against the To those who want the fathers cycle that continues through Currently, in the United States, Children and Head Start and measure. We will have happy, practice of sati, the dowry system to be involved in any decision about generations. some Republicans are waging a war education funding. healthy, and educated families as and for the rights of widows to abortion, it is important to In countries which have good on women. There is an initiative to The analysis given of the part of a larger society, in which the remarry, from the very beginning of understand that many men, either educational systems, such as reverse the 1973 Roe vs. Wade law feminist movement and some of its needs and rights of allwomen, men Ananda Marga. Let us follow His due to their young age, being Finland, Denmark and Norway, the which guarantees women the right leaders in the impugned article, I and children--are considered and example. “I said my sons and my incarcerated, being involved in other abortion rate is really low. Visser and to an abortion, and which also find uninformed and biased, and protected. daughters are just like two hands of relationships, or by not wanting to Ketting explain in “Contraception in protects women’s privacy under the worse, buying into the War on Conclusion mine. They are just like wings of a take on responsibilities of the Netherlands: The Low Abortion Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Women. I, especially, take issue I would much rather address bird. A bird having one wing cannot fatherhood, may simply not be in the Rate Explained” that factors like the Constitution (Roe vs. Wade Case with the assertion in the article, “I solutions to the problem of the fly” (The Awakening of Women). picture. For example, eight out of ten i n t r o d u c t i o n o f m o d e r n Brief Summary). personally have very little current War on Women, in which “Let womanhood be the vanguard of teenaged girls’ partners with whom contraceptives, good public health Additionally, some legislators knowledge of women's movements rape would become a less serious a new revolution which humanity they had the baby do not help raise insurance and an education are attempting to get rape redefined. as they exist today, but it is probably crime. Currently, only a small must achieve for a glorious new the child. Some girls and women are campaign for sex education Senate candidate, Representative safe to say that of the women percentage of rapists are prosecuted tomorrow” (A Few Problems Solved, victims of incest and rape, as well, targeting teenagers and a family Todd Akin (Republican-Missouri), involved in those movements who and an even smaller number of these Prt. 9). and, while still in the process of planning movement, make the stated in 2012 that “legitimate rape” identify themselves as feminists, the are convicted. If the dealing with this unbelievable Dutch abortion rate one of the lowest does not often lead to pregnancy majority support an unrestricted Republicans succeed, trauma, are conflicted about whether in the world (Guttmacher Report, because “the female body has ways legal right to abortion…”. I identify women and poor families or not to bring such a child into the 2014). In the United States, there are to try to shut that whole thing as “feminist”, yet I don't believe in will have fewer chances world without help or adequate 30.2 abortions per 1000 births; in the down.” This is not the first time the an unrestricted right to abortion. I t o d e v e l o p t h e i r financial and emotional support (11 Netherlands, there are only 3.9 biologically challenged senate believe the decision should be an potentials because of facts about teen pregnancy). a b o r t i o n s p e r 1 0 0 0 b i r t h s candidate tried to minimize the informed one, made in collaboration m a s s i v e c u t s t o Increasingly, especially in ( P r e v a l e n c e o f Te e n a g e d impact of rape. Last year, Akin with family, friends, medical education, Medicaid, African-American families, women Pregnancy). joined with GOP vice presidential personnel, and spiritual and food stamps and Head are the heads of one parent Another aspect of this issue candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as psychological advice. I don't S t a r t f u n d i n g . households. Since African- would be the situation when some two of the original co-sponsors of believe it should fall into the legal Unfortunately, U. S. American women make only 62 find themselves pregnant after the “No Taxpayer Funding for realm, however. As popular singer, culture and policies have cents on the dollar and Hispanic incest or rape. Women are Abortion Act,” a bill which, among Beyonce, sings on her new CD, “We undue influence on women 54 cents on the dollar, as increasingly more isolated and are other things, introduced the country should all be feminists!” Being a policies world-wide. compared with white American often re-victimized when they try to to the bizarre term “forcible feminist is merely viewing women Therefore, I believe that men, these mothers are already hold their rapists accountable, as rape.”(Kapin, A.) What these laws as human beings and partnering with rolling back the U.S. War disadvantaged economically (U.S. with the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio would do is to normalize rape women to build a new society based on Women would have Census Bureau, 2010). Without rape case in which a high school girl culture, and make such offenses as on coordinated cooperation, rather significant positive affordable child care, they are was gang raped by some members of sexual harassment, rape, peeping than subordinated cooperation. impact on many other doubly disadvantaged if they the high school football team. She tom incidents, and domestic Instead of trying to look at the countries in the world, become pregnant. How will they and her family received death violence seem less serious, making problem of abortion from a holistic, with respect to social afford another child? It is a dire threats because she reported the it even more difficult for women to non-patriarchal lens, I find this justice for women. future for families already rape, being thereby blamed for be safe from these violent crimes. a n a l y s i s s e n s a t i o n a l i z e d , 22 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 23 MILITARY HISTORY INDRA LAL ROY AIR ACE OF THE FIRST A very gallant and WORLD WAR determined officer, who in thirteen days accounted for nine school for St Paul's School London, action during a dogfight with a while on patrol over Hulloch, his ð Arun Prakash from the age of ten and then went on German Fokker aeroplane on July flight attacked four German Fokker enemy machines. In to St Paul's. Roy played rugby and 22, at the age of only 19. To this date DV11s. In the ensuing dogfight, Prologue fratricidal struggle between the these several was captain of swimming. At St he remains the sole Indian air ace. Laddie Roy shot down the first Discoursing about the Kshatriya European races. The performance of engagements he has Paul's, he was in the school cadet Flying in SE5a biplanes of 40 Fokker in flames and then went after Age in 1967, Prout's founder Shrii the gallant Indian Expeditionary force from September 1914 till April Squadron under the watchful eye of another, eventually forcing that Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar said, “The Forces was magnificent. Indian displayed remarkable 1917 when he left to join the Royal British Ace George McElroy, Indra German 'Down out of Control' after heroic victories of the ksatriyas were soldiers won sixteen Victoria skill and daring, on Flying Corps. According to official showed his true talents on an early having strafed the cockpit of the celebrated in the Vedic and Crosses and ninety-nine Military more than one records of the Royal Flying Corps morning patrol on July 6, 1918. Over Fokker. With two more downed Crosses. Mahabharata ages and in ancient occasion accounting for (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) in Drocourt his flight attacked a enemy machines, his tally was now Greek and Egyptian times, and Besides these there was a the National Archives of the United German Hanover C and Indra scored 8. Yet again in the air on an evening continue to be celebrated in both young air ace known to only a few. two machines in one Kingdom, when the war broke out in his first victory. This marked a level patrol near Arras on July 18, Laddie developed and undeveloped In this centenary year of the Great patrol. 1914 he was studying in St. Paul's of commitment far beyond the Roy shot down in flames his ninth societies today. The admirers of War, this is the story about School, Kensington, London. Early expectations of his Commanding enemy machine for the month. The different ksatriyas have told their Lieutenant Indra Lal Roy an air April of 1917 saw him join the Royal Officer, with this gallant young man following day back on morning tales, while those who have strongly warrior par excellence who was Flying Corps and within three revealing in his ability to out patrol over Cagnicourt, he once opposed them on principle have posthumously awarded the aircraft at the start of the war but four months, he had earned promotion to manoeuvre his opponents with his again shot down in flames a nevertheless had to applaud their Distinguished Flying Cross at the years later it was nearly 4,500. the rank of Second Lieutenant. After daring. On July 8, few in his Hannover C reconnaissance plane, gallantry and heroism. Even the young age of nineteen. At that time Indra Lal Roy was born in a period of flying training at squadron were surprised by Indra bringing his tally to a total of 10 people of England praise the aircraft technology was little over a Calcutta to father Piera Lal Roy and Vendôme in France and a spell at the Roy's tally by lunch of that day. He enemy planes in just 13 days. bravery of Napoleon Bonaparte. decade old. Though initially deemed mother Lolita. As per the Census RFC Gunnery School in Turnberry, had downed no fewer than 3 enemy Three days later on the morning Even the people of France recognize of little use to the armed services Report of December 21, 1914 Lolita Roy was given his first posting (with machines, showing brilliant flying of July 22, 1918, Laddie Roy was the powerful personality of Hitler. other than in a reconnaissance role; Roy and her six children lived at 77 No. 56 Squadron) in late October skills and bringing him to just one flying his SE 5 biplane on patrol Even the conservatives in Indian aircraft development increased Brook Green, W6 7BE. 1917. kill off becoming an ace, in just two across the enemy lines when he was politics cannot deny the heroism of exponentially during wartime. For Indra attended Colet Court Unfortunately he was injured days of flying. sighted by a flight of German Fokker Prafulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose, example, France had fewer than 140 Preparatory School, the feeder when his plane crashed on Once again on morning patrol, DV11s above him. Instinctively in a Rashbehari Bandopadhyay and December 6, 1917. The medical Indra Lal Roy became an ace on July dogfight, Roy turned into his Subhash Chandra Bose”. board record in Roy's file shows that 13, 1918 when he downed another attackers to turn the advantage in his Hundred years back marked he was not declared fit to resume German Hanover C near Estairs. At favor; but his opponent this time, the the beginning of the First World War flying until May 13, 1918. On June lunch his new status was celebrated German air ace Eduard Florus and the contribution of Indian 19, 1918 Roy was posted to No. 40 and then on evening patrol near Harald Auffarth flying a Jagdstaffel soldiers in this Great War is all but Squadron in France. Due to his Vitry - Brebieres, he gained his sixth 29 got the better of him and Indra Lal forgotten. The Great War was a youthful looks and inquisitive kill by flaming a Pfalz D111. He now Roy's aircraft went down in flames at bloody entry for the Indian Army nature, he was nicknamed 'Laddie' held the enviable figures of 3 major 0850 hours on the fateful day in that served in Europe, the Middle by his squadron mates. During his engagements for 6 victories. On the German-held territory. East and Africa. More than 60,000 short stint of service with the strength of his outstanding Indra was posthumously soldiers were killed and 70,000 squadron, he shot down nine performance his Commanding awarded the Distinguished Flying wounded in battlefields far from German planes in less than 14 days. Officer recommended him for the Cross and the citation as published in home, in a war that was not theirs; His brief and spectacular flying Distinguished Flying Cross. the London Gazette of 1918 reads: for a cause that was alien, a career ended when he was killed in On the evening of July 15, His remains were gathered by

24 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 25 MILITARY HISTORY INDRA LAL ROY AIR ACE OF THE FIRST A very gallant and WORLD WAR determined officer, who in thirteen days accounted for nine school for St Paul's School London, action during a dogfight with a while on patrol over Hulloch, his ð Arun Prakash from the age of ten and then went on German Fokker aeroplane on July flight attacked four German Fokker enemy machines. In to St Paul's. Roy played rugby and 22, at the age of only 19. To this date DV11s. In the ensuing dogfight, Prologue fratricidal struggle between the these several was captain of swimming. At St he remains the sole Indian air ace. Laddie Roy shot down the first Discoursing about the Kshatriya European races. The performance of engagements he has Paul's, he was in the school cadet Flying in SE5a biplanes of 40 Fokker in flames and then went after Age in 1967, Prout's founder Shrii the gallant Indian Expeditionary force from September 1914 till April Squadron under the watchful eye of another, eventually forcing that Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar said, “The Forces was magnificent. Indian displayed remarkable 1917 when he left to join the Royal British Ace George McElroy, Indra German 'Down out of Control' after heroic victories of the ksatriyas were soldiers won sixteen Victoria skill and daring, on Flying Corps. According to official showed his true talents on an early having strafed the cockpit of the celebrated in the Vedic and Crosses and ninety-nine Military more than one records of the Royal Flying Corps morning patrol on July 6, 1918. Over Fokker. With two more downed Crosses. Mahabharata ages and in ancient occasion accounting for (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) in Drocourt his flight attacked a enemy machines, his tally was now Greek and Egyptian times, and Besides these there was a the National Archives of the United German Hanover C and Indra scored 8. Yet again in the air on an evening continue to be celebrated in both young air ace known to only a few. two machines in one Kingdom, when the war broke out in his first victory. This marked a level patrol near Arras on July 18, Laddie developed and undeveloped In this centenary year of the Great patrol. 1914 he was studying in St. Paul's of commitment far beyond the Roy shot down in flames his ninth societies today. The admirers of War, this is the story about School, Kensington, London. Early expectations of his Commanding enemy machine for the month. The different ksatriyas have told their Lieutenant Indra Lal Roy an air April of 1917 saw him join the Royal Officer, with this gallant young man following day back on morning tales, while those who have strongly warrior par excellence who was Flying Corps and within three revealing in his ability to out patrol over Cagnicourt, he once opposed them on principle have posthumously awarded the aircraft at the start of the war but four months, he had earned promotion to manoeuvre his opponents with his again shot down in flames a nevertheless had to applaud their Distinguished Flying Cross at the years later it was nearly 4,500. the rank of Second Lieutenant. After daring. On July 8, few in his Hannover C reconnaissance plane, gallantry and heroism. Even the young age of nineteen. At that time Indra Lal Roy was born in a period of flying training at squadron were surprised by Indra bringing his tally to a total of 10 people of England praise the aircraft technology was little over a Calcutta to father Piera Lal Roy and Vendôme in France and a spell at the Roy's tally by lunch of that day. He enemy planes in just 13 days. bravery of Napoleon Bonaparte. decade old. Though initially deemed mother Lolita. As per the Census RFC Gunnery School in Turnberry, had downed no fewer than 3 enemy Three days later on the morning Even the people of France recognize of little use to the armed services Report of December 21, 1914 Lolita Roy was given his first posting (with machines, showing brilliant flying of July 22, 1918, Laddie Roy was the powerful personality of Hitler. other than in a reconnaissance role; Roy and her six children lived at 77 No. 56 Squadron) in late October skills and bringing him to just one flying his SE 5 biplane on patrol Even the conservatives in Indian aircraft development increased Brook Green, W6 7BE. 1917. kill off becoming an ace, in just two across the enemy lines when he was politics cannot deny the heroism of exponentially during wartime. For Indra attended Colet Court Unfortunately he was injured days of flying. sighted by a flight of German Fokker Prafulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose, example, France had fewer than 140 Preparatory School, the feeder when his plane crashed on Once again on morning patrol, DV11s above him. Instinctively in a Rashbehari Bandopadhyay and December 6, 1917. The medical Indra Lal Roy became an ace on July dogfight, Roy turned into his Subhash Chandra Bose”. board record in Roy's file shows that 13, 1918 when he downed another attackers to turn the advantage in his Hundred years back marked he was not declared fit to resume German Hanover C near Estairs. At favor; but his opponent this time, the the beginning of the First World War flying until May 13, 1918. On June lunch his new status was celebrated German air ace Eduard Florus and the contribution of Indian 19, 1918 Roy was posted to No. 40 and then on evening patrol near Harald Auffarth flying a Jagdstaffel soldiers in this Great War is all but Squadron in France. Due to his Vitry - Brebieres, he gained his sixth 29 got the better of him and Indra Lal forgotten. The Great War was a youthful looks and inquisitive kill by flaming a Pfalz D111. He now Roy's aircraft went down in flames at bloody entry for the Indian Army nature, he was nicknamed 'Laddie' held the enviable figures of 3 major 0850 hours on the fateful day in that served in Europe, the Middle by his squadron mates. During his engagements for 6 victories. On the German-held territory. East and Africa. More than 60,000 short stint of service with the strength of his outstanding Indra was posthumously soldiers were killed and 70,000 squadron, he shot down nine performance his Commanding awarded the Distinguished Flying wounded in battlefields far from German planes in less than 14 days. Officer recommended him for the Cross and the citation as published in home, in a war that was not theirs; His brief and spectacular flying Distinguished Flying Cross. the London Gazette of 1918 reads: for a cause that was alien, a career ended when he was killed in On the evening of July 15, His remains were gathered by

24 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 25 PERSPECTIVE centenary the Government of India also performed so gallantly. No issued a stamp and first Day Cover. fewer than 6 Indian young men flew ð Sohail Inayatullah The courage and reputation of on combat missions in Europe. In Indra Lal Roy inspired many young fact Indra Lal Roy's nephew Subroto Pillars of Prout men who wished to emulate his Mukerjee who later rose to become To articulate a Proutist view of policymaking that uses the conceptual categories of Prout, we first need to summarize key aspects of Prout. PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory) is a theory of value and a social and economic movement based on spiritual culture. It is a model of an ideal socio-economic system, a vision of the good society, and a practice. There is no road to Prout, it is the Harald Auffarth and his Jasta 29 road. It is a unique epistemology and methodology, generally derived from Tantra but integrating other German troops and buried at Levil social and economic traditions as near Arras. Later he was buried well. again at Estevelles Communal flying skills. There could be no the first Indian Air Chief of India While there are many ways to Cemetery in France. On the doubt that this incredible young was one of them. understand Prout, one approach is to Epilogue divide it into five pillars: (1) spiritual On December 22, 1985 practice, (2) Neo-humanism, (3) the Shrii Sarkar gave a new word for Social cycle, (4) Governance and (5) martyr, “In a special sense, aojasika Political-Economy. means “great warrior”. In ancient literature the word aojasika has been used in some places to mean “one who has sacrificed oneself in Prout Policymaking the interest of others”. Nowadays the word aojasika can be used in Prout is a model of an ideal socio-economic system, place of shahiida”. a vision of the good society, and a practice. There is no road to Prout, it is the road. Readers may agree that the The first, spiritual practice plants and animals. Spiritual and transparent leaders, who can headstone is the inscription: “He flying ace was the reason why so young brave-heart and air ace Indra means that there is an inner practice without neohumanism access these four potentials and died for the ideals he loved” many young Indian pilots took to the Lal Roy is a true example of dimension to the external world merely creates a type of enlightened ensure that the cycle becomes On December 19, 1998 on his skies in the Second World War and aojasika. meditation and other similar fascism inner bliss in the context of progressive, that each wave of practices are central to a successful a steep hierarchy where the other is change continues the rotation of the Proutist society. This inner excluded. Neohumanism, as well, is cycle but at higher and more dimension flows through the other p r e d i c a t e d o n c o o r d i n a t e d progressive levels. aspects of Prout from ethics to cooperation that is, transcending Fourth is governance. Prout economy: society to science. the current male dominator model in works in a world governance Second is Neo-humanism. society and moving toward gender structure. It imagines a federalist Neo-humanism is both equal cooperation. world system and seeks to create opportunity legislation and inner Third is the social cycle. Prout glo-cal social movements that mindfulness - an ethics that expands provides a theory of macrohistory challenge the current capitalist our identity from ego to family to and future. There are four stages of world economy. Along with the territory to religion to society to history and four ways of knowing democratic system are parallel humanism and eventually to all the worker, the warrior, the sadvipra policy boards that inform living beings. Neo-humanism thus intellectual and the merchant. and guide. Prout seeks to reconcile c h a l l e n g e s g e o - s e n t i m e n t s History is cyclical. However, we are the two grand traditions in political (nationalism), religious sentiments, not doomed to the cycle. There is a theory: democracy and wisdom. Digital image courtesy of Jean- divisions along ethnic lines, and way out. At the centre of the cycle, Fifth is the socio-economic Claude Graux via inmemories.com even humanism, as it is inclusive of argues Sarkar, are sadvipras, ethical system. Prout challenges the current

26 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 27 PERSPECTIVE centenary the Government of India also performed so gallantly. No issued a stamp and first Day Cover. fewer than 6 Indian young men flew ð Sohail Inayatullah The courage and reputation of on combat missions in Europe. In Indra Lal Roy inspired many young fact Indra Lal Roy's nephew Subroto Pillars of Prout men who wished to emulate his Mukerjee who later rose to become To articulate a Proutist view of policymaking that uses the conceptual categories of Prout, we first need to summarize key aspects of Prout. PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory) is a theory of value and a social and economic movement based on spiritual culture. It is a model of an ideal socio-economic system, a vision of the good society, and a practice. There is no road to Prout, it is the Harald Auffarth and his Jasta 29 road. It is a unique epistemology and methodology, generally derived from Tantra but integrating other German troops and buried at Levil social and economic traditions as near Arras. Later he was buried well. again at Estevelles Communal flying skills. There could be no the first Indian Air Chief of India While there are many ways to Cemetery in France. On the doubt that this incredible young was one of them. understand Prout, one approach is to Epilogue divide it into five pillars: (1) spiritual On December 22, 1985 practice, (2) Neo-humanism, (3) the Shrii Sarkar gave a new word for Social cycle, (4) Governance and (5) martyr, “In a special sense, aojasika Political-Economy. means “great warrior”. In ancient literature the word aojasika has been used in some places to mean “one who has sacrificed oneself in Prout Policymaking the interest of others”. Nowadays the word aojasika can be used in Prout is a model of an ideal socio-economic system, place of shahiida”. a vision of the good society, and a practice. There is no road to Prout, it is the road. Readers may agree that the The first, spiritual practice plants and animals. Spiritual and transparent leaders, who can headstone is the inscription: “He flying ace was the reason why so young brave-heart and air ace Indra means that there is an inner practice without neohumanism access these four potentials and died for the ideals he loved” many young Indian pilots took to the Lal Roy is a true example of dimension to the external world merely creates a type of enlightened ensure that the cycle becomes On December 19, 1998 on his skies in the Second World War and aojasika. meditation and other similar fascism inner bliss in the context of progressive, that each wave of practices are central to a successful a steep hierarchy where the other is change continues the rotation of the Proutist society. This inner excluded. Neohumanism, as well, is cycle but at higher and more dimension flows through the other p r e d i c a t e d o n c o o r d i n a t e d progressive levels. aspects of Prout from ethics to cooperation that is, transcending Fourth is governance. Prout economy: society to science. the current male dominator model in works in a world governance Second is Neo-humanism. society and moving toward gender structure. It imagines a federalist Neo-humanism is both equal cooperation. world system and seeks to create opportunity legislation and inner Third is the social cycle. Prout glo-cal social movements that mindfulness - an ethics that expands provides a theory of macrohistory challenge the current capitalist our identity from ego to family to and future. There are four stages of world economy. Along with the territory to religion to society to history and four ways of knowing democratic system are parallel humanism and eventually to all the worker, the warrior, the sadvipra policy boards that inform living beings. Neo-humanism thus intellectual and the merchant. and guide. Prout seeks to reconcile c h a l l e n g e s g e o - s e n t i m e n t s History is cyclical. However, we are the two grand traditions in political (nationalism), religious sentiments, not doomed to the cycle. There is a theory: democracy and wisdom. Digital image courtesy of Jean- divisions along ethnic lines, and way out. At the centre of the cycle, Fifth is the socio-economic Claude Graux via inmemories.com even humanism, as it is inclusive of argues Sarkar, are sadvipras, ethical system. Prout challenges the current

26 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 27 corporatist model, focusing instead the categories of Prout are used to important, then the capacity to on the cooperative model (along make sense of the empirical world, transform empirical reality. These with private small scale enterprises that is, history is revised to align seven approaches all challenge how and state run public utilities). A with Shrii Sarkar's categories of we know the world, and invite us to a Proutist society provides a safety net worker-warrior-intellectual- politics of reflection, of situating the with incentives for innovation. capitalist; (2) the empirical, wherein researcher within the domain of Wealth increases are linked to so that evidence is brought to bear to prove inquiry, within policymaking. the minimum rises with the or falsify Shrii Sarkar's claims as to Prout Policymaking is maximum. This ensures we do not the superiority of Prout in reducing have a situation like today where the poverty and enhancing global Neohumanism in Action richest eighty-five people are worth wealth and generally creating a Linking action and theory is as much as the poorest three and a more inclusive, balanced and policymaking, the process of half billion, as reported by the 2014 equitable world system; (3) the articulating Prout perspectives on Oxfam international report comparative, wherein Prout is phenomena. To begin with, Prout (http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/w compared to other world systems policymaking must be built on a orking-for-the-few-economic- such as capitalism, localism and process of deep engagement with inequality). Productivity increases, communism; (4) the translation, those impacted by the policy, by indeed, inequity, should benefit all wherein Sarkar's meanings are policymakers, by theory, by instead of the few. Productivity is regrouped so as to be more evidence, indeed, a deep process of increased through (1) enhanced accessible to different groups, for inner and outer participation. At equity; (2) enhanced innovation example, critique, eschatology and heart, therefore, Prout policymaking engagement to increase the based on the language interests worldview biases of the through new material and social strategy; (5) the framing, wherein is about engaged neohumanism. likelihood of implementation, of policymakers and policies. policymaker him or herself) technologies; and (3) decreased Prout is reframed within different Neohumanism supplies the rationale and Critique has focused on the It is in this context that Prout wastage of physical and material disciplines, for example, futures for Prout policy. Without this E I m p l e m e n t a t i o n : i s question: does policy qua neohumanism enters the debate. resources. Prout, thus, seeks a third studies wherein the vision of the approach, policies tend to fail as implementation designed into privilege a particular way of Articulated by P.R. Sarkar, way, progressively beyond future is explored in depth and bureaucracies ensure that business- the policy process or seen as an seeing the world? Thus the neohumanism seeks to expand the communist and capitalist models of contrasted with other visions; (6) the as-usual continues. after-thought. economic rationalist, for lenses we use to understand the ownership and resolves the phenomenological, wherein Prout Traditional policymaking E Deeper still are issues of e x a m p l e , h a s b e e n world. It intends to move beyond dichotomies of global and local. In is seen from the eyes of Shrii Sarkar frames tend to be dichotomously definitional power. Is the deconstructed as gender as egoist, territorial, national, racial, this schema economic units are in himself, how Prout theorizes theory; divided into concerns over equity (is policy process neutral, merely class biased. More recently, religious, ideological and even the first place local but of course thus we avail ourselves to Shrii the policy fair? who will it benefit?) an issue of finding the most policymaking has sought to humanistic frames of reference. For become increasingly global more Sarkar's typology of theories from and growth (will the policy lead to E effective outcomes using cost- free itself from claims of example, neohumanism challenges flows of capital, labour, technology those that are developed to “dupe the economic growth? will it lead to benefit analysis? Or, is policy neutrality to resituating itself analyses that reify nation-states and ideas once equity and dignity of people” to those that are difficult to innovation?). While this left versus by its very nature structurally E as a process that includes (geo-sentiment) or that uphold the l o c a l e n v i r o n m e n t a l a n d implement, to those that are based right positioning is certainly an partisan even subjective, within it multiplicity and power of a particular gender employment concerns are met. on “intellectual extravaganza” to important policy lens, it tends to constituted by gender, varna, complexity. (patriarchy), or religion (particular The modern world has died: we those that can transform inner and limit policy analysis. Of equal class, institutional and As the world becomes more access to God). are in the midst of the postmodern, outer conditions; and (7) the relevance are the issues of: linguistic biases? That is, one's complex, policymaking has Questions asked include: does the era of multiplicity. Prout claims poststructural, wherein we E Temporality: short immediate political and epistemic frames followed suit. It is now considered to the policy create more or less gender working with social movements all historicize Prout, seeing it within its concerns versus long-term of reference are complicit in be: partnership cooperation? Is the over the world, to provide the genealogical context, and thus, by future generational concerns, how policy solutions and the E complex and chaotic (multi- methodology used, as well as its epistemology, methodology and being able to situate Sarkar and E P a r t i c i p a t i o n : p o l i c y entire policy process is variable based with initial implementation and evaluation, vision for a different future, and Prout, we can use both as assets for developed by expert elites defined. Each policy frame has conditions critical) gender balanced? And: does the present. transformation. Fidelity to the real, versus policy developed i t s o w n i n t e r e s t s . F o r E layered (ie policy does not policy move us away from narrow as in the empirical, is far less through broader stakeholder Prout Policymaking examples, organizations may change because of more national/religious identities to To create this alternative seek to develop policy for the information or better logic but broader global, planetary and future, not only is direct action good of citizens but over time by changing the framework of humanistic identities? How will important, but Prout as well needs to institutional and bureaucratic the debate, by creating a new nature be impacted by the policy? be able to evaluate the world and i n t e r e s t s t e n d t o t a k e narrative), Does nature have standing in make sense of this world. This sense precedence. E futures oriented (time is committee hearings or is the process making is based on deeper E Policymaking in the past fifty moving far more quickly, and based on human exceptionalism? epistemological issues the problem to sixty years has gone from thus, the long-term must be Are spiritual concerns articulated, or of inquiry. In Situating Sarkar being black-box based to one part of all policy discussions), is the spiritual seen as less important (Maleny, Gurukul, 1999), I argued where the class interests of the E global/local ie space is also than strict economic concerns? Are that there are multiple ways to policy and policymakers have changing daily, and future generations considered understand Prout itself. This been questioned. More E person based (policymaking or is the immediate context (the includes: (1) the applied, wherein recently critiques have been must be aware of the business quarter) of sole concern?

28 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 29 corporatist model, focusing instead the categories of Prout are used to important, then the capacity to on the cooperative model (along make sense of the empirical world, transform empirical reality. These with private small scale enterprises that is, history is revised to align seven approaches all challenge how and state run public utilities). A with Shrii Sarkar's categories of we know the world, and invite us to a Proutist society provides a safety net worker-warrior-intellectual- politics of reflection, of situating the with incentives for innovation. capitalist; (2) the empirical, wherein researcher within the domain of Wealth increases are linked to so that evidence is brought to bear to prove inquiry, within policymaking. the minimum rises with the or falsify Shrii Sarkar's claims as to Prout Policymaking is maximum. This ensures we do not the superiority of Prout in reducing have a situation like today where the poverty and enhancing global Neohumanism in Action richest eighty-five people are worth wealth and generally creating a Linking action and theory is as much as the poorest three and a more inclusive, balanced and policymaking, the process of half billion, as reported by the 2014 equitable world system; (3) the articulating Prout perspectives on Oxfam international report comparative, wherein Prout is phenomena. To begin with, Prout (http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/w compared to other world systems policymaking must be built on a orking-for-the-few-economic- such as capitalism, localism and process of deep engagement with inequality). Productivity increases, communism; (4) the translation, those impacted by the policy, by indeed, inequity, should benefit all wherein Sarkar's meanings are policymakers, by theory, by instead of the few. Productivity is regrouped so as to be more evidence, indeed, a deep process of increased through (1) enhanced accessible to different groups, for inner and outer participation. At equity; (2) enhanced innovation example, critique, eschatology and heart, therefore, Prout policymaking engagement to increase the based on the language interests worldview biases of the through new material and social strategy; (5) the framing, wherein is about engaged neohumanism. likelihood of implementation, of policymakers and policies. policymaker him or herself) technologies; and (3) decreased Prout is reframed within different Neohumanism supplies the rationale and Critique has focused on the It is in this context that Prout wastage of physical and material disciplines, for example, futures for Prout policy. Without this E I m p l e m e n t a t i o n : i s question: does policy qua neohumanism enters the debate. resources. Prout, thus, seeks a third studies wherein the vision of the approach, policies tend to fail as implementation designed into privilege a particular way of Articulated by P.R. Sarkar, way, progressively beyond future is explored in depth and bureaucracies ensure that business- the policy process or seen as an seeing the world? Thus the neohumanism seeks to expand the communist and capitalist models of contrasted with other visions; (6) the as-usual continues. after-thought. economic rationalist, for lenses we use to understand the ownership and resolves the phenomenological, wherein Prout Traditional policymaking E Deeper still are issues of e x a m p l e , h a s b e e n world. It intends to move beyond dichotomies of global and local. In is seen from the eyes of Shrii Sarkar frames tend to be dichotomously definitional power. Is the deconstructed as gender as egoist, territorial, national, racial, this schema economic units are in himself, how Prout theorizes theory; divided into concerns over equity (is policy process neutral, merely class biased. More recently, religious, ideological and even the first place local but of course thus we avail ourselves to Shrii the policy fair? who will it benefit?) an issue of finding the most policymaking has sought to humanistic frames of reference. For become increasingly global more Sarkar's typology of theories from and growth (will the policy lead to E effective outcomes using cost- free itself from claims of example, neohumanism challenges flows of capital, labour, technology those that are developed to “dupe the economic growth? will it lead to benefit analysis? Or, is policy neutrality to resituating itself analyses that reify nation-states and ideas once equity and dignity of people” to those that are difficult to innovation?). While this left versus by its very nature structurally E as a process that includes (geo-sentiment) or that uphold the l o c a l e n v i r o n m e n t a l a n d implement, to those that are based right positioning is certainly an partisan even subjective, within it multiplicity and power of a particular gender employment concerns are met. on “intellectual extravaganza” to important policy lens, it tends to constituted by gender, varna, complexity. (patriarchy), or religion (particular The modern world has died: we those that can transform inner and limit policy analysis. Of equal class, institutional and As the world becomes more access to God). are in the midst of the postmodern, outer conditions; and (7) the relevance are the issues of: linguistic biases? That is, one's complex, policymaking has Questions asked include: does the era of multiplicity. Prout claims poststructural, wherein we E Temporality: short immediate political and epistemic frames followed suit. It is now considered to the policy create more or less gender working with social movements all historicize Prout, seeing it within its concerns versus long-term of reference are complicit in be: partnership cooperation? Is the over the world, to provide the genealogical context, and thus, by future generational concerns, how policy solutions and the E complex and chaotic (multi- methodology used, as well as its epistemology, methodology and being able to situate Sarkar and E P a r t i c i p a t i o n : p o l i c y entire policy process is variable based with initial implementation and evaluation, vision for a different future, and Prout, we can use both as assets for developed by expert elites defined. Each policy frame has conditions critical) gender balanced? And: does the present. transformation. Fidelity to the real, versus policy developed i t s o w n i n t e r e s t s . F o r E layered (ie policy does not policy move us away from narrow as in the empirical, is far less through broader stakeholder Prout Policymaking examples, organizations may change because of more national/religious identities to To create this alternative seek to develop policy for the information or better logic but broader global, planetary and future, not only is direct action good of citizens but over time by changing the framework of humanistic identities? How will important, but Prout as well needs to institutional and bureaucratic the debate, by creating a new nature be impacted by the policy? be able to evaluate the world and i n t e r e s t s t e n d t o t a k e narrative), Does nature have standing in make sense of this world. This sense precedence. E futures oriented (time is committee hearings or is the process making is based on deeper E Policymaking in the past fifty moving far more quickly, and based on human exceptionalism? epistemological issues the problem to sixty years has gone from thus, the long-term must be Are spiritual concerns articulated, or of inquiry. In Situating Sarkar being black-box based to one part of all policy discussions), is the spiritual seen as less important (Maleny, Gurukul, 1999), I argued where the class interests of the E global/local ie space is also than strict economic concerns? Are that there are multiple ways to policy and policymakers have changing daily, and future generations considered understand Prout itself. This been questioned. More E person based (policymaking or is the immediate context (the includes: (1) the applied, wherein recently critiques have been must be aware of the business quarter) of sole concern?

28 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 29 WELLBEING Does the policy favor any particular theory of the social cycle are also individual to the postmodern class or varna, or is it integrated? foundational assets. With these we wherein livability, the community Prout expands conventional can analyse organizations, and nature are equally important. By p o l i c y m a k i n g t h r o u g h i t s institutions and revolutions to judge exploring alternatives, egoist neohumanistic framework. This if the revolution is authentic or a notions of speed and ownership are means seeking solutions, frames and counter revolution. We can ask if it questioned and debates can shift practices that move outside narrow will be short lived or long lived? We from “my car at any speed” to formulations (good for a particular can use Sarkar's theory of history as transport choices and their impact nation, religion, class) and methods a lens to better understand the on nature, equity and prosperity - that reinscribe these frames. future? The Sarkar game that is, “our community”. In this Solutions to today's problems thus (http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/18- shift there is a neohumanist require policy approaches that 1/A01.pdf) invented by Hayward expansion of how the problem and challenge how we frame these and Voros is an excellent simulation solution are constituted. problems. The neohumanist exercise to audit the leadership style Finally, Proutist policy perspective recognizes that of organizations and movements. analysis while sensitive to systems, solutions are not to be found at the Governance following Proutist culture and myths, includes the level of the problem but at deeper principles can also be used to quality of consciousness of the and broader levels. understand policy discussions policymaker and stakeholders. This Practically this means, for asking, for example, if the necessary reflexivity acknowledges example, ensuring that public and policymaking process is transparent that who we are is not separate from organizational policy move away and inclusive not just of humans but what we do and how we organize from single bottom line (usually of nature. Finally, the spiritual power, economy and mythology. prosperity) to triple bottom line dimensions of Prout too are a Prout policy analysis challenges (prosperity plus social equity plus powerful way of analyzing traditional modes of policymaking, environment ) and then to a policymaking. We can ask, if the offering new theory and method to quadruple bottom line (wherein policy process is purpose based and the analysis of policy and spirituality is the foundational). if the inner dimensions of human life policymaking. Pillars of Prout and are honored. As well, are decisions Prout is Futures Focused made only in the context of rational Policymaking As an alternative worldview, decision-making or are other modes Prout challenges the present and While neohumanism is central of knowing, for example, intuition offers a different view of the future. to Prout policymaking, the other used. Prout, as a theory and movement, is Ten Scientifically Proven pillars of Prout are also significant. The broader point is to shift Each pillar suggests sets of futures focused seeking to open up one's gaze from a conventional the future and articulate a different questions to interrogate policy and reading of policy to one informed by policy making processes and biases. direction for humanity. Prout's Prout. Methodologically this means, futures focus assumes that: first, Thus, there is Prout's theory of moving policy debates outside of the Ways to Be Incredibly Happy political-economy. From this lens, there is not one future but alternative particular problem, to the system futures; second, policymaking we can evaluate and question that defines or causes the problem, economic policies asking do they needs to move from forecasting to to the ideological positions that exploring depth, that is to an ð Jeff Haden lead to prama, a balanced and support the system, and finally to dynamic economy? Does the interrogation of the worldviews and unconscious identity myths that give narratives that interest groups use to It's easy to think of happiness as a result, but happiness is also a driver. minimum wage move with the meaning to the entire worldview, One example: While I'm definitely into finding ways to improve personal maximum wage, ensuring gains for make sense of the world and Helping others can system and problem. This means construct reality; third, that the productivity (whether a one-day burst, or a lifetime, or things you should not all? moving away from, for example, improve our own lives. do every day), probably the best way to be more productive is to just be Macrohistory and Sarkar's future is essentially about changing transportation planning the present. The future, thus defined, Scientists have found happier. Happy people accomplish more. Easier said than done though, right? solutions that suggest that is an asset used to open up the Actually, many changes are easy. Here are 10 science-based ways to be the solution to gridlock is present, allowing it to be seen as that doing a kindness happier from Belle Beth Cooper, Content Crafter at Buffer the social media simply more roads and remarkable, and thus malleable. management tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social media cars to systemic issues of This allows agency to enter produces the single updates. Here's Beth: social equity and access structure, with the hope of personal, most reliable 1. Exercise: 7 Minutes Could Be Enough to transport alternatives. organizational and institutional Think exercise is something you don't have time for? Think again. Check Going deeper is to change. momentary increase in out the 7 minute workout mentioned in The New York Times. That's a workout challenge the framing of The Prout policy framework is any of us can fit into our schedules. Exercise has such a profound effect on our the issue moving from about change and transformation. It well-being of any happiness and well-being that it is an effective strategy for overcoming modernist notions of is about using Prout to create better exercise tested. depression. In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, transport - the car and the worlds: other worlds. three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or

30 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 31 WELLBEING Does the policy favor any particular theory of the social cycle are also individual to the postmodern class or varna, or is it integrated? foundational assets. With these we wherein livability, the community Prout expands conventional can analyse organizations, and nature are equally important. By p o l i c y m a k i n g t h r o u g h i t s institutions and revolutions to judge exploring alternatives, egoist neohumanistic framework. This if the revolution is authentic or a notions of speed and ownership are means seeking solutions, frames and counter revolution. We can ask if it questioned and debates can shift practices that move outside narrow will be short lived or long lived? We from “my car at any speed” to formulations (good for a particular can use Sarkar's theory of history as transport choices and their impact nation, religion, class) and methods a lens to better understand the on nature, equity and prosperity - that reinscribe these frames. future? The Sarkar game that is, “our community”. In this Solutions to today's problems thus (http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/18- shift there is a neohumanist require policy approaches that 1/A01.pdf) invented by Hayward expansion of how the problem and challenge how we frame these and Voros is an excellent simulation solution are constituted. problems. The neohumanist exercise to audit the leadership style Finally, Proutist policy perspective recognizes that of organizations and movements. analysis while sensitive to systems, solutions are not to be found at the Governance following Proutist culture and myths, includes the level of the problem but at deeper principles can also be used to quality of consciousness of the and broader levels. understand policy discussions policymaker and stakeholders. This Practically this means, for asking, for example, if the necessary reflexivity acknowledges example, ensuring that public and policymaking process is transparent that who we are is not separate from organizational policy move away and inclusive not just of humans but what we do and how we organize from single bottom line (usually of nature. Finally, the spiritual power, economy and mythology. prosperity) to triple bottom line dimensions of Prout too are a Prout policy analysis challenges (prosperity plus social equity plus powerful way of analyzing traditional modes of policymaking, environment ) and then to a policymaking. We can ask, if the offering new theory and method to quadruple bottom line (wherein policy process is purpose based and the analysis of policy and spirituality is the foundational). if the inner dimensions of human life policymaking. Pillars of Prout and are honored. As well, are decisions Prout is Futures Focused made only in the context of rational Policymaking As an alternative worldview, decision-making or are other modes Prout challenges the present and While neohumanism is central of knowing, for example, intuition offers a different view of the future. to Prout policymaking, the other used. Prout, as a theory and movement, is Ten Scientifically Proven pillars of Prout are also significant. The broader point is to shift Each pillar suggests sets of futures focused seeking to open up one's gaze from a conventional the future and articulate a different questions to interrogate policy and reading of policy to one informed by policy making processes and biases. direction for humanity. Prout's Prout. Methodologically this means, futures focus assumes that: first, Thus, there is Prout's theory of moving policy debates outside of the Ways to Be Incredibly Happy political-economy. From this lens, there is not one future but alternative particular problem, to the system futures; second, policymaking we can evaluate and question that defines or causes the problem, economic policies asking do they needs to move from forecasting to to the ideological positions that exploring depth, that is to an ð Jeff Haden lead to prama, a balanced and support the system, and finally to dynamic economy? Does the interrogation of the worldviews and unconscious identity myths that give narratives that interest groups use to It's easy to think of happiness as a result, but happiness is also a driver. minimum wage move with the meaning to the entire worldview, One example: While I'm definitely into finding ways to improve personal maximum wage, ensuring gains for make sense of the world and Helping others can system and problem. This means construct reality; third, that the productivity (whether a one-day burst, or a lifetime, or things you should not all? moving away from, for example, improve our own lives. do every day), probably the best way to be more productive is to just be Macrohistory and Sarkar's future is essentially about changing transportation planning the present. The future, thus defined, Scientists have found happier. Happy people accomplish more. Easier said than done though, right? solutions that suggest that is an asset used to open up the Actually, many changes are easy. Here are 10 science-based ways to be the solution to gridlock is present, allowing it to be seen as that doing a kindness happier from Belle Beth Cooper, Content Crafter at Buffer the social media simply more roads and remarkable, and thus malleable. management tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social media cars to systemic issues of This allows agency to enter produces the single updates. Here's Beth: social equity and access structure, with the hope of personal, most reliable 1. Exercise: 7 Minutes Could Be Enough to transport alternatives. organizational and institutional Think exercise is something you don't have time for? Think again. Check Going deeper is to change. momentary increase in out the 7 minute workout mentioned in The New York Times. That's a workout challenge the framing of The Prout policy framework is any of us can fit into our schedules. Exercise has such a profound effect on our the issue moving from about change and transformation. It well-being of any happiness and well-being that it is an effective strategy for overcoming modernist notions of is about using Prout to create better exercise tested. depression. In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, transport - the car and the worlds: other worlds. three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or

30 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 31 a combination of the two. The results memories gets processed by the positive (happy) expressions. of this study are surprising: hippocampus. Sleep deprivation hits Of course, how well (and how long) Although all three groups the hippocampus harder than the you sleep will probably affect how experienced similar improvements amygdala. The result is that sleep- you feel when you wake up, which in their happiness levels early on, the deprived people fail to recall can make a difference to your whole follow-up assessments proved to be pleasant memories yet recall day. Another study tested how radically different: gloomy memories just fine. employees' moods when they started The groups were then tested six In one experiment by Walker, work in the morning affected their months later to assess their relapse sleep-deprived college students entire work day. Researchers found rate. Of those who had taken the tried to memorize a list of words. that employees' moods when they medication alone, 38 percent had They could remember 81% of the clocked in tended to affect how they slipped back into depression. Those words with a negative connotation, felt the rest of the day. Early mood in the combination group were like “cancer.” But they could was linked to their perceptions of doing only slightly better, with a 31 remember only 31% of the words customers and to how they reacted to percent relapse rate. The biggest with a positive or neutral customers' moods. And most shock, though, came from the connotation, like “sunshine” or importantly to managers, employee exercise group: Their relapse rate “basket.” mood had a clear impact on was only 9 percent. You don't have to The BPS Research Digest performance, including both how be depressed to benefit from explores another study that proves much work employees did and how exercise, though. Exercise can help sleep affects our sensitivity to well they did it. you relax, increase your brain negative emotions. Using a facial 3. Spend More Time With power, and even improve your body recognition task throughout the image, even if you don't lose any course of a day, researchers studied Friends/Family: Money Can't weight. how sensitive participants were to Buy You Happiness We've explored exercise in positive and negative emotions. Staying in touch with friends depth before, and looked at what it Those who worked through the and family is one of the top five I love the way Harvard British Household Panel Survey, I friends and neighbors, advising and does to our brains, such as releasing afternoon without taking a nap regrets of the dying. If you want happiness expert Daniel Gilbert find that an increase in the level of caring for others, tended to live to proteins and endorphins that make became more sensitive to negative more evidence that time with friends explains it: We are happy when we social involvements is worth up to old age. us feel happier. A study in the emotions like fear and anger. Using have family, we are happy when we an extra £85,000 a year in terms of is beneficial for you, research proves 4 . G e t O u t s i d e M o r e : Journal of Health Psychology found a face recognition task, here we it can make you happier right now, have friends and almost all the other life satisfaction. Actual changes in Happiness is Maximized at 57° that people who exercised felt better demonstrate an amplified reactivity too. Social time is highly valuable things we think make us happy are income, on the other hand, buy very about their bodies even when they to anger and fear emotions across the when it comes to improving our actually just ways of getting more little happiness. In The Happiness Advantage, saw no physical changes: Body day, without sleep. However, an happiness, even for introverts. family and friends. George Vaillant I think that last line is S h a w n A c h o r r e c o m m e n d s weight, shape and body image were intervening nap blocked and even Several studies have found that time is the director of a 72-year study of especially fascinating: Actual spending time in the fresh air to assessed in 16 males and 18 females reversed this negative emotional spent with friends and family makes the lives of 268 men. In an interview changes in income, on the other improve your happiness: Making before and after both 6 × 40 minutes reactivity to anger and fear while a big difference to how happy we in the March 2008 newsletter to the hand, buy very little happiness. So time to go outside on a nice day also exercising and 6 × 40 minutes conversely enhancing ratings of feel. Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was we could increase our annual delivers a huge advantage; one study reading. Over both conditions, body asked, “What have you learned from income by hundreds of thousands of found that spending 20 minutes weight and shape did not change. the Grant Study men?” Vaillant's dollars and still not be as happy as outside in good weather not only Various aspects of body image, response: “That the only thing that we would if we increased the boosted positive mood, but however, improved after exercise really matters in life are your strength of our social relationships. broadened thinking and improved compared to before. relationships to other people.” He The Terman study, covered in The working memory… This is pretty Yep: Even if your actual appearance shared insights of the study with Longevity Project, found that good news for those of us who are doesn't change, how you feel about Joshua Wolf Shenk at The Atlantic relationships and how we help worried about fitting new habits into your body does change. on how men's social connections others were important factors in our already-busy schedules. Twenty made a difference to their overall living long, happy lives: We figured minutes is a short enough time to 2. Sleep More: You'll be Less happiness: Men's relationships at that if a Terman participant sincerely spend outside that you could fit it Sensitive to Negative Emotions age 47, he found, predicted late-life felt that he or she had friends and into your commute or even your We know that sleep helps our adjustment better than any other relatives to count on when having a lunch break. body recover from the day and repair variable. Good sibling relationships hard time then that person would be A UK study from the itself and that it helps us focus and be seem especially powerful: 93 healthier. Those who felt very loved University of Sussex also found that more productive. It turns out sleep is percent of the men who were and cared for, we predicted, would being outdoors made people also important for happiness. In thriving at age 65 had been close to a live the longest. happier: NutureShock, Po Bronson and brother or sister when younger. Surprise: our prediction was Being outdoors, near the sea, Ashley Merryman explain how In fact, a study published in the wrong… Beyond social network on a warm, sunny weekend sleep affects positivity: Negative Journal of Socio-Economics states size, the clearest benefit of social afternoon is the perfect spot for stimuli get processed by the that your relationships are worth relationships came from helping most. In fact, participants were amygdala; positive or neutral more than $100,000: Using the others. Those who helped their found to be substantially happier

32 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 33 a combination of the two. The results memories gets processed by the positive (happy) expressions. of this study are surprising: hippocampus. Sleep deprivation hits Of course, how well (and how long) Although all three groups the hippocampus harder than the you sleep will probably affect how experienced similar improvements amygdala. The result is that sleep- you feel when you wake up, which in their happiness levels early on, the deprived people fail to recall can make a difference to your whole follow-up assessments proved to be pleasant memories yet recall day. Another study tested how radically different: gloomy memories just fine. employees' moods when they started The groups were then tested six In one experiment by Walker, work in the morning affected their months later to assess their relapse sleep-deprived college students entire work day. Researchers found rate. Of those who had taken the tried to memorize a list of words. that employees' moods when they medication alone, 38 percent had They could remember 81% of the clocked in tended to affect how they slipped back into depression. Those words with a negative connotation, felt the rest of the day. Early mood in the combination group were like “cancer.” But they could was linked to their perceptions of doing only slightly better, with a 31 remember only 31% of the words customers and to how they reacted to percent relapse rate. The biggest with a positive or neutral customers' moods. And most shock, though, came from the connotation, like “sunshine” or importantly to managers, employee exercise group: Their relapse rate “basket.” mood had a clear impact on was only 9 percent. You don't have to The BPS Research Digest performance, including both how be depressed to benefit from explores another study that proves much work employees did and how exercise, though. Exercise can help sleep affects our sensitivity to well they did it. you relax, increase your brain negative emotions. Using a facial 3. Spend More Time With power, and even improve your body recognition task throughout the image, even if you don't lose any course of a day, researchers studied Friends/Family: Money Can't weight. how sensitive participants were to Buy You Happiness We've explored exercise in positive and negative emotions. Staying in touch with friends depth before, and looked at what it Those who worked through the and family is one of the top five I love the way Harvard British Household Panel Survey, I friends and neighbors, advising and does to our brains, such as releasing afternoon without taking a nap regrets of the dying. If you want happiness expert Daniel Gilbert find that an increase in the level of caring for others, tended to live to proteins and endorphins that make became more sensitive to negative more evidence that time with friends explains it: We are happy when we social involvements is worth up to old age. us feel happier. A study in the emotions like fear and anger. Using have family, we are happy when we an extra £85,000 a year in terms of is beneficial for you, research proves 4 . G e t O u t s i d e M o r e : Journal of Health Psychology found a face recognition task, here we it can make you happier right now, have friends and almost all the other life satisfaction. Actual changes in Happiness is Maximized at 57° that people who exercised felt better demonstrate an amplified reactivity too. Social time is highly valuable things we think make us happy are income, on the other hand, buy very about their bodies even when they to anger and fear emotions across the when it comes to improving our actually just ways of getting more little happiness. In The Happiness Advantage, saw no physical changes: Body day, without sleep. However, an happiness, even for introverts. family and friends. George Vaillant I think that last line is S h a w n A c h o r r e c o m m e n d s weight, shape and body image were intervening nap blocked and even Several studies have found that time is the director of a 72-year study of especially fascinating: Actual spending time in the fresh air to assessed in 16 males and 18 females reversed this negative emotional spent with friends and family makes the lives of 268 men. In an interview changes in income, on the other improve your happiness: Making before and after both 6 × 40 minutes reactivity to anger and fear while a big difference to how happy we in the March 2008 newsletter to the hand, buy very little happiness. So time to go outside on a nice day also exercising and 6 × 40 minutes conversely enhancing ratings of feel. Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was we could increase our annual delivers a huge advantage; one study reading. Over both conditions, body asked, “What have you learned from income by hundreds of thousands of found that spending 20 minutes weight and shape did not change. the Grant Study men?” Vaillant's dollars and still not be as happy as outside in good weather not only Various aspects of body image, response: “That the only thing that we would if we increased the boosted positive mood, but however, improved after exercise really matters in life are your strength of our social relationships. broadened thinking and improved compared to before. relationships to other people.” He The Terman study, covered in The working memory… This is pretty Yep: Even if your actual appearance shared insights of the study with Longevity Project, found that good news for those of us who are doesn't change, how you feel about Joshua Wolf Shenk at The Atlantic relationships and how we help worried about fitting new habits into your body does change. on how men's social connections others were important factors in our already-busy schedules. Twenty made a difference to their overall living long, happy lives: We figured minutes is a short enough time to 2. Sleep More: You'll be Less happiness: Men's relationships at that if a Terman participant sincerely spend outside that you could fit it Sensitive to Negative Emotions age 47, he found, predicted late-life felt that he or she had friends and into your commute or even your We know that sleep helps our adjustment better than any other relatives to count on when having a lunch break. body recover from the day and repair variable. Good sibling relationships hard time then that person would be A UK study from the itself and that it helps us focus and be seem especially powerful: 93 healthier. Those who felt very loved University of Sussex also found that more productive. It turns out sleep is percent of the men who were and cared for, we predicted, would being outdoors made people also important for happiness. In thriving at age 65 had been close to a live the longest. happier: NutureShock, Po Bronson and brother or sister when younger. Surprise: our prediction was Being outdoors, near the sea, Ashley Merryman explain how In fact, a study published in the wrong… Beyond social network on a warm, sunny weekend sleep affects positivity: Negative Journal of Socio-Economics states size, the clearest benefit of social afternoon is the perfect spot for stimuli get processed by the that your relationships are worth relationships came from helping most. In fact, participants were amygdala; positive or neutral more than $100,000: Using the others. Those who helped their found to be substantially happier

32 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 33 or someone else and then reported according to this study: A new study dropped back to baseline levels for grew, and parts associated with their happiness. Afterwards, led by a Michigan State University most people. Shawn Achor has some stress shrank. participants chose whether to spend business scholar suggests customer- info for us on this point, as well: One Meditation literally clears your a monetary windfall on themselves service workers who fake smile study found that people who just mind and calms you down; it's been or someone else. Participants throughout the day worsen their thought about watching their often proven to be the single most assigned to recall a purchase made mood and withdraw from work, favorite movie actually raised their effective way to live a happier life. for someone else reported feeling affecting productivity. But workers endorphin levels by 27 percent. If According to Achor, meditation can significantly happier immediately who smile as a result of cultivating you can't take the time for a vacation actually make you happier long- after this recollection; most positive thoughtssuch as a tropical right now, or even a night out with term: Studies show that in the importantly, the happier participants vacation or a child's recitalimprove friends, put something on the minutes right after meditating, we felt, the more likely they were to their mood and withdraw less. Of calendareven if it's a month or a year experience feelings of calm and choose to spend a windfall on course it's important to practice “real down the road. Then, whenever you contentment, as well as heightened someone else in the near future. So smiles” where you use your eye need a boost of happiness, remind awareness and empathy. And, spending money on other people sockets. (You've seen fake smiles yourself about it. research even shows that regular makes us happier than buying stuff that don't reach the person's eyes. 8. Meditate: Rewire Your Brain meditation can permanently rewire for ourselves. But what about Try it. Smile with just your mouth. for Happiness the brain to raise levels of happiness. spending our time on other people? Then smile naturally; your eyes Meditation is often touted as an The fact that we can actually A study of volunteering in narrow. There's a huge difference in important habit for improving focus, alter our brain structure through Germany explored how volunteers a fake smile and a genuine smile.) clarity, and attention span, as well as mediation is most surprising to me w e r e a ff e c t e d w h e n t h e i r According to PsyBlog, smiling can helping to keep you calm. It turns and somewhat reassuring that opportunities to help others were improve our attention and help us out its also useful for improving however we feel and think today taken away: Shortly after the fall of perform better on cognitive tasks: your happiness: isn't permanent. the Berlin Wall but before the Smiling makes us feel good which In one study, a research team 9. Move Closer to Work: A German reunion, the first wave of also increases our attentional from Massachusetts General Short Commute is Worth data of the GSOEP was collected in flexibility and our ability to think Hospital looked at the brain scans of More Than a Big House East Germany. Volunteering was holistically. When this idea was 16 people before and after they still widespread. Due to the shock of tested by Johnson et al. (2010), the Our commute to work can have participated in an eight-week course a surprisingly powerful impact on the reunion, a large portion of the results showed that participants who in mindfulness meditation. The infrastructure of volunteering (e.g. smiled performed better on our happiness. The fact that we tend study, published in the January issue to commute twice a day at least five sports clubs associated with firms) attentional tasks which required o f P s y c h i a t r y R e s e a r c h : collapsed and people randomly lost seeing the whole forest rather than days a week makes it unsurprising Neuroimaging, concluded that after that the effect would build up over their opportunities for volunteering. just the trees. A smile is also a good completing the course, parts of the Based on a comparison of the way to reduce some of the pain we time and make us less and less participants' brains associated with happy. According to The Art of change in subjective well-being of feel in troubling circumstances: compassion and self-awareness outdoors in all natural environments found is that to make yourself feel these people and of people from the Smiling is one way to reduce the Manliness, having a long commute t h a n t h e y w e r e i n u r b a n happier, you should help others. In control group who had no change in distress caused by an upsetting environments. The American fact, 100 hours per year (or two their volunteer status, the hypothesis situation. Psychologists call this the Meteorological Society published hours per week) is the optimal time is supported that volunteering is facial feedback hypothesis. Even research in 2011 that found current we should dedicate to helping others rewarding in terms of higher life forcing a smile when we don't feel temperature has a bigger effect on in order to enrich our lives. If we go satisfaction. like it is enough to lift our mood our happiness than variables like back to Shawn Achor's book again, In his book Flourish: A Visionary slightly (this is one example of wind speed and humidity, or even he says this about helping others: New Understanding of Happiness embodied cognition). the average temperature over the …when researchers interviewed and Well-being, University of 7. Plan a Trip: It Helps Even if course of a day. It also found that more than 150 people about their Pennsylvania professor Martin You Don't Actually Take One happiness is maximized at 57 recent purchases, they found that Seligman explains that helping As opposed to actually taking a degrees (13.9°C), so keep an eye on money spent on activitiessuch as others can improve our own lives: the weather forecast before heading concerts and group dinners holiday, simply planning a vacation …we scientists have found that or break from work can improve our outside for your 20 minutes of fresh outbrought far more pleasure than doing a kindness produces the single air. The connection between material purchases like shoes, happiness. A study published in the most reliable momentary increase in journal Applied Research in Quality productivity and temperature is televisions, or expensive watches. well-being of any exercise we have another topic we've talked about Spending money on other people, of Life showed that the highest spike tested. in happiness came during the more here. It's fascinating what a called “prosocial spending,” also 6. Practice Smiling: Reduce small change in temperature can do. boosts happiness. planning stage of a vacation as Pain, Improve Mood, Think The Journal of Happiness people enjoy the sense of 5. Help Others: 100 Hours a Studies published a study that Better anticipation: In the study, the effect Year is the Magic Number e x p l o r e d t h i s v e r y t o p i c : Smiling can make us feel of vacation anticipation boosted O n e o f t h e m o s t Participants recalled a previous better, but it's more effective when happiness for eight weeks. After the counterintuitive pieces of advice I purchase made for either themselves we back it up with positive thoughts, vacation, happiness quickly

34 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 35 or someone else and then reported according to this study: A new study dropped back to baseline levels for grew, and parts associated with their happiness. Afterwards, led by a Michigan State University most people. Shawn Achor has some stress shrank. participants chose whether to spend business scholar suggests customer- info for us on this point, as well: One Meditation literally clears your a monetary windfall on themselves service workers who fake smile study found that people who just mind and calms you down; it's been or someone else. Participants throughout the day worsen their thought about watching their often proven to be the single most assigned to recall a purchase made mood and withdraw from work, favorite movie actually raised their effective way to live a happier life. for someone else reported feeling affecting productivity. But workers endorphin levels by 27 percent. If According to Achor, meditation can significantly happier immediately who smile as a result of cultivating you can't take the time for a vacation actually make you happier long- after this recollection; most positive thoughtssuch as a tropical right now, or even a night out with term: Studies show that in the importantly, the happier participants vacation or a child's recitalimprove friends, put something on the minutes right after meditating, we felt, the more likely they were to their mood and withdraw less. Of calendareven if it's a month or a year experience feelings of calm and choose to spend a windfall on course it's important to practice “real down the road. Then, whenever you contentment, as well as heightened someone else in the near future. So smiles” where you use your eye need a boost of happiness, remind awareness and empathy. And, spending money on other people sockets. (You've seen fake smiles yourself about it. research even shows that regular makes us happier than buying stuff that don't reach the person's eyes. 8. Meditate: Rewire Your Brain meditation can permanently rewire for ourselves. But what about Try it. Smile with just your mouth. for Happiness the brain to raise levels of happiness. spending our time on other people? Then smile naturally; your eyes Meditation is often touted as an The fact that we can actually A study of volunteering in narrow. There's a huge difference in important habit for improving focus, alter our brain structure through Germany explored how volunteers a fake smile and a genuine smile.) clarity, and attention span, as well as mediation is most surprising to me w e r e a ff e c t e d w h e n t h e i r According to PsyBlog, smiling can helping to keep you calm. It turns and somewhat reassuring that opportunities to help others were improve our attention and help us out its also useful for improving however we feel and think today taken away: Shortly after the fall of perform better on cognitive tasks: your happiness: isn't permanent. the Berlin Wall but before the Smiling makes us feel good which In one study, a research team 9. Move Closer to Work: A German reunion, the first wave of also increases our attentional from Massachusetts General Short Commute is Worth data of the GSOEP was collected in flexibility and our ability to think Hospital looked at the brain scans of More Than a Big House East Germany. Volunteering was holistically. When this idea was 16 people before and after they still widespread. Due to the shock of tested by Johnson et al. (2010), the Our commute to work can have participated in an eight-week course a surprisingly powerful impact on the reunion, a large portion of the results showed that participants who in mindfulness meditation. The infrastructure of volunteering (e.g. smiled performed better on our happiness. The fact that we tend study, published in the January issue to commute twice a day at least five sports clubs associated with firms) attentional tasks which required o f P s y c h i a t r y R e s e a r c h : collapsed and people randomly lost seeing the whole forest rather than days a week makes it unsurprising Neuroimaging, concluded that after that the effect would build up over their opportunities for volunteering. just the trees. A smile is also a good completing the course, parts of the Based on a comparison of the way to reduce some of the pain we time and make us less and less participants' brains associated with happy. According to The Art of change in subjective well-being of feel in troubling circumstances: compassion and self-awareness outdoors in all natural environments found is that to make yourself feel these people and of people from the Smiling is one way to reduce the Manliness, having a long commute t h a n t h e y w e r e i n u r b a n happier, you should help others. In control group who had no change in distress caused by an upsetting environments. The American fact, 100 hours per year (or two their volunteer status, the hypothesis situation. Psychologists call this the Meteorological Society published hours per week) is the optimal time is supported that volunteering is facial feedback hypothesis. Even research in 2011 that found current we should dedicate to helping others rewarding in terms of higher life forcing a smile when we don't feel temperature has a bigger effect on in order to enrich our lives. If we go satisfaction. like it is enough to lift our mood our happiness than variables like back to Shawn Achor's book again, In his book Flourish: A Visionary slightly (this is one example of wind speed and humidity, or even he says this about helping others: New Understanding of Happiness embodied cognition). the average temperature over the …when researchers interviewed and Well-being, University of 7. Plan a Trip: It Helps Even if course of a day. It also found that more than 150 people about their Pennsylvania professor Martin You Don't Actually Take One happiness is maximized at 57 recent purchases, they found that Seligman explains that helping As opposed to actually taking a degrees (13.9°C), so keep an eye on money spent on activitiessuch as others can improve our own lives: the weather forecast before heading concerts and group dinners holiday, simply planning a vacation …we scientists have found that or break from work can improve our outside for your 20 minutes of fresh outbrought far more pleasure than doing a kindness produces the single air. The connection between material purchases like shoes, happiness. A study published in the most reliable momentary increase in journal Applied Research in Quality productivity and temperature is televisions, or expensive watches. well-being of any exercise we have another topic we've talked about Spending money on other people, of Life showed that the highest spike tested. in happiness came during the more here. It's fascinating what a called “prosocial spending,” also 6. Practice Smiling: Reduce small change in temperature can do. boosts happiness. planning stage of a vacation as Pain, Improve Mood, Think The Journal of Happiness people enjoy the sense of 5. Help Others: 100 Hours a Studies published a study that Better anticipation: In the study, the effect Year is the Magic Number e x p l o r e d t h i s v e r y t o p i c : Smiling can make us feel of vacation anticipation boosted O n e o f t h e m o s t Participants recalled a previous better, but it's more effective when happiness for eight weeks. After the counterintuitive pieces of advice I purchase made for either themselves we back it up with positive thoughts, vacation, happiness quickly

34 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 35 WORLD NEWS Participants included 219 men and women who wrote three letters of gratitude over a 3 week period. Results indicated that writing letters The Zapatista of gratitude increased participants' happiness and life satisfaction while uprising in 1994 decreasing depressive symptoms. lasted 12 days and Quick Final Fact: Getting Older Will Actually Make You left an estimated Happier death toll of 100 As we get older, particularly past middle age, we tend to naturally people. grow happier. There's still some debate over why this happens, but scientists have a few ideas: Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier From Fire to Autonomy is something we often fail to realize simple practice: The gratitude- ones more and the negative ones will affect us so dramatically while o u t l o o k g r o u p s e x h i b i t e d less. Other studies have discovered many voluntary conditions don't heightened well-being across that as people age, they seek out affect our happiness in the long term several, though not all, of the situations that will lift their moods Zapatistas, 20 Years of Walking Slowly because we acclimate to them, outcome measures across the three for instance, pruning social circles people never get accustomed to their studies, relative to the comparison of friends or acquaintances who ð Andalusia Knoll and Itandehui Reyes daily slog to work because groups. The effect on positive affect might bring them down. Still other sometimes the traffic is awful and appeared to be the most robust work finds that older adults learn to Speaking in the mountains of of acres of land on which they have population in Zapatista areas. sometimes it's not. finding. Results suggest that a let go of loss and disappointment Chiapas, Mexico, on a cold drizzly constructed communities that are However, the indigenous rebels, Or as Harvard psychologist Daniel conscious focus on blessings may over unachieved goals, and focus New Year's Eve, the Zapatista governed "from the bottom up." who reject all forms of government Gilbert put it, “Driving in traffic is a have emotional and interpersonal their goals on greater well being. Comandante Hortensia addressed Community members participate in handouts, have successfully resisted different kind of hell every day.” We benefits. So if you thought getting old the crowd: "Twenty-five or 30 years rotating government positions that co-optation. If you ask a Zapatista tend to try to compensate for this by The Journal of Happiness studies will make you miserable, it's likely ago we were completely deceived, operate under the democratic how many are in the ranks, they will having a bigger house or a better job, published a study that used letters of you'll develop a more positive manipulated, subjugated, forgotten principle of "mandar obedeciendo" just respond "somos un chingo," but these compensations just don't gratitude to test how being grateful outlook than you probably have and drowned in ignorance and (commanding by obeying). which loosely translates into "there work: Two Swiss economists who can affect our levels of happiness: now. How cool is that? misery." She was communicating The Mexican government has are a whole lot of us." Official studied the effect of commuting on the official words of the Zapatista attempted to introduce social estimates put their numbers at happiness found that such factors Army of National Liberation programs with the goal of co-opting 250,000 people or roughly 10 could not make up for the misery (EZLN) on the 20th anniversary of and dividing the indigenous percent of the population of the state created by a long commute. their rebellion, when thousands of indigenous people rose up in arms, 10. Practice Gratitude: Increase took over dozens of major towns and Happiness and Satisfaction villages in this southern state, and This is a seemingly simple declared "enough is enough, never strategy but I've personally found it again will there be a homeland that to make a huge difference to my doesn't include us." outlook. There are lots of ways to Comandante Hortensia went practice gratitude, from keeping a on to explain how over the past two journal of things you're grateful for, decades, they have constructed their sharing three good things that own autonomous government, happen each day with a friend or complete with their own health and your partner, and going out of your education system, based in the way to show gratitude when others indigenous traditions of their help you. ancestors. Despite the continual In an experiment where efforts of the "neoliberal bad participants took note of things they government" to displace them from were grateful for each day, their their land, the Zapatistas have moods were improved just from this successfully recuperated thousands

36 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 37 WORLD NEWS Participants included 219 men and women who wrote three letters of gratitude over a 3 week period. Results indicated that writing letters The Zapatista of gratitude increased participants' happiness and life satisfaction while uprising in 1994 decreasing depressive symptoms. lasted 12 days and Quick Final Fact: Getting Older Will Actually Make You left an estimated Happier death toll of 100 As we get older, particularly past middle age, we tend to naturally people. grow happier. There's still some debate over why this happens, but scientists have a few ideas: Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier From Fire to Autonomy is something we often fail to realize simple practice: The gratitude- ones more and the negative ones will affect us so dramatically while o u t l o o k g r o u p s e x h i b i t e d less. Other studies have discovered many voluntary conditions don't heightened well-being across that as people age, they seek out affect our happiness in the long term several, though not all, of the situations that will lift their moods Zapatistas, 20 Years of Walking Slowly because we acclimate to them, outcome measures across the three for instance, pruning social circles people never get accustomed to their studies, relative to the comparison of friends or acquaintances who ð Andalusia Knoll and Itandehui Reyes daily slog to work because groups. The effect on positive affect might bring them down. Still other sometimes the traffic is awful and appeared to be the most robust work finds that older adults learn to Speaking in the mountains of of acres of land on which they have population in Zapatista areas. sometimes it's not. finding. Results suggest that a let go of loss and disappointment Chiapas, Mexico, on a cold drizzly constructed communities that are However, the indigenous rebels, Or as Harvard psychologist Daniel conscious focus on blessings may over unachieved goals, and focus New Year's Eve, the Zapatista governed "from the bottom up." who reject all forms of government Gilbert put it, “Driving in traffic is a have emotional and interpersonal their goals on greater well being. Comandante Hortensia addressed Community members participate in handouts, have successfully resisted different kind of hell every day.” We benefits. So if you thought getting old the crowd: "Twenty-five or 30 years rotating government positions that co-optation. If you ask a Zapatista tend to try to compensate for this by The Journal of Happiness studies will make you miserable, it's likely ago we were completely deceived, operate under the democratic how many are in the ranks, they will having a bigger house or a better job, published a study that used letters of you'll develop a more positive manipulated, subjugated, forgotten principle of "mandar obedeciendo" just respond "somos un chingo," but these compensations just don't gratitude to test how being grateful outlook than you probably have and drowned in ignorance and (commanding by obeying). which loosely translates into "there work: Two Swiss economists who can affect our levels of happiness: now. How cool is that? misery." She was communicating The Mexican government has are a whole lot of us." Official studied the effect of commuting on the official words of the Zapatista attempted to introduce social estimates put their numbers at happiness found that such factors Army of National Liberation programs with the goal of co-opting 250,000 people or roughly 10 could not make up for the misery (EZLN) on the 20th anniversary of and dividing the indigenous percent of the population of the state created by a long commute. their rebellion, when thousands of indigenous people rose up in arms, 10. Practice Gratitude: Increase took over dozens of major towns and Happiness and Satisfaction villages in this southern state, and This is a seemingly simple declared "enough is enough, never strategy but I've personally found it again will there be a homeland that to make a huge difference to my doesn't include us." outlook. There are lots of ways to Comandante Hortensia went practice gratitude, from keeping a on to explain how over the past two journal of things you're grateful for, decades, they have constructed their sharing three good things that own autonomous government, happen each day with a friend or complete with their own health and your partner, and going out of your education system, based in the way to show gratitude when others indigenous traditions of their help you. ancestors. Despite the continual In an experiment where efforts of the "neoliberal bad participants took note of things they government" to displace them from were grateful for each day, their their land, the Zapatistas have moods were improved just from this successfully recuperated thousands

36 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 37 of Chiapas. However, the 1994 uprising cosmo-vision, Marxist philosophy In the communiqué released by though they live in a world where demonstration, the Zapatista Zapatista communities are was not a spontaneous endeavor. and progressive theological thought the Zapatistas to celebrate the 20th money reigns supreme. uncovered their faces, so they were spread throughout the large southern Twenty years before, Marxist- to counter dispossession and anniversary, Subcomandante On the anniversary of the seen not just as romanticized Mexican state of Chiapas, which inspired guerillas arrived in the poverty. The EZLN germinated the Marcos described the motivations uprising, many mainstream guerillas covered with balaclavas, includes coastal, mountainous and Lacandon jungle in Chiapas to unite seed of "Ya Basta - Enough that prompted their rebellion: "It Mexican media outlets sought to but instead as the humble, jungle regions. They have created with members of marginalized Already!" was not the struggle to survive, but a d i s c r e d i t t h e Z a p a t i s t a s , indigenous peasants that they are. five Caracoles, which are the centers indigenous communities. In 1983, Their ideas rapidly gained sense of duty that put us here, for highlighting the rampant poverty Zapatistas always refer to each other of "good government" and points of they formally created the EZLN. traction as a confluence of better or for worse. It was the that still exists in Chiapas. Yet the a s " c o m p a s " ( s h o r t f r o m coordination for the Zapatista health They drew inspiration from indigenous cosmo-vision, Marxist necessity to do something in the face Zapatistas chose to highlight their compañeros - partner), and all clinics, schools, community banks Emiliano Zapata, who fought in the philosophy and progressive of millennial injustice, the successes by opening the doors to express an intense pride to be part of and independent media projects. Mexican revolution in the early 20th theological thought to counter the Zapatista resistance. dispossession and poverty. The Each student was assigned a EZLN germinated the seed of "Ya votán, or guardian of the same Basta - Enough Already!" gender, who was responsible for Chiapas, is rich in flora and guiding, translating, and caring for fauna, containing between 50 and 80 the student at all times. The students percent of Mexico's biodiversity, and votánes stayed together with a water reserves and mineral Zapatista family in their home - resources. However, the richness of usually a humble structure of wood, natural resources has never mud and corrugated metal. The translated into prosperity for the majority of Zapatista families speak p o p u l a t i o n , e s p e c i a l l y t h e an indigenous language, and indigenous people who often live in Subcomandante Marcos explained extreme poverty in marginalized in a communiqué the importance of communities. It is estimated that 40 having the votánes translate for the percent of the state's population students. "You will, of course, be left speak an indigenous language, and with the doubt as to whether your the EZLN is composed of Tzotzil, question was adequately translated Tzeltal, Chol and Tojolabal and if the answer you got is the same communities. The Zapatistas as that which the teacher gave. denounced their marginalization in But isn't that exactly what an indignation we felt was the most their communities with the the first declaration of the Lacandon indigenous person is subject to with century, declaring that the land overwhelming characteristic of Escuelita, "The Little School: Resistance to NAFTA, the Jungle: "We have been denied the a translator in the government courts Death of the Mexican Farmer belonged to those who worked it. humanity." Freedom According to the of justice? Escuelita students Continuing his revolutionary most elemental preparation so they On January 1, 1994, the Our Word is Our Weapon Zapatistas." During three different participated in the daily activities of tradition, the EZLN rebelled to can use us as cannon fodder and NAFTA free trade agreement The Zapatista uprising in 1994 rounds of la Escuelita, Mexican and campesino life: collecting firewood, demand work, land, shelter, food, pillage the wealth of our country. entered Mexico with vigor, lasted 12 days and left an estimated international solidarity activists, harvesting yucca, grinding corn to health, education, independence, They don't care that we have promising foreign investment and death toll of 100 people. On the 12th students, mothers, teachers and make tortillas, cleaning the cattle democracy, freedom, justice and nothing, absolutely nothing, not economic prosperity at the expense day, a demonstration of civil society many other people joined with the field and collecting water in nearby peace for all the Mexican people. even a roof over our heads, no land, of the plunder of natural resources. of hundreds of thousands of people Zapatistas to share the joys and creeks or rivers. In some Their ideas rapidly gained traction no work, no health care, no food nor NAFTA is largely credited for in Mexico City shouting "You are difficulties of the daily construction communities, the tasks were gender- as a confluence of indigenous education." flooding the Mexican market with not alone," helped put pressure on of life with dignity. separated, with the women mostly relegated to the houses and the men subsidized corn from the United the government to accept a Daily Life: Dignity Triumphs States, which decimated farmers' ceasefire. in the fields; while in other over Money livelihoods and provoked massive From that moment on, the communities, students reported that During the Little School migration to the United States. Two Zapatistas have never apologized the work was shared more. When y e a r s p r i o r t o N A F TA ' s for rising up in arms, but they have implementation, former President prioritized words as their primary Carlos Salinas opened the weapon of choice. floodgates to land privatization by It's been 30 years since the reforming Article 27, which had birth of the EZLN, and these protected communally owned land indigenous guerillas continue to known as ejidos, created during the surprise the world with their lyrical Mexican revolution. Thus, the poetry and tenacity for profound introduction of NAFTA provided social transformation. Their strength the perfect context for the uprising is founded in their communities' of the indigenous guerillas that ability to weave new kinds of anti- formed the EZLN. capitalist social relationships, even

38 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 39 of Chiapas. However, the 1994 uprising cosmo-vision, Marxist philosophy In the communiqué released by though they live in a world where demonstration, the Zapatista Zapatista communities are was not a spontaneous endeavor. and progressive theological thought the Zapatistas to celebrate the 20th money reigns supreme. uncovered their faces, so they were spread throughout the large southern Twenty years before, Marxist- to counter dispossession and anniversary, Subcomandante On the anniversary of the seen not just as romanticized Mexican state of Chiapas, which inspired guerillas arrived in the poverty. The EZLN germinated the Marcos described the motivations uprising, many mainstream guerillas covered with balaclavas, includes coastal, mountainous and Lacandon jungle in Chiapas to unite seed of "Ya Basta - Enough that prompted their rebellion: "It Mexican media outlets sought to but instead as the humble, jungle regions. They have created with members of marginalized Already!" was not the struggle to survive, but a d i s c r e d i t t h e Z a p a t i s t a s , indigenous peasants that they are. five Caracoles, which are the centers indigenous communities. In 1983, Their ideas rapidly gained sense of duty that put us here, for highlighting the rampant poverty Zapatistas always refer to each other of "good government" and points of they formally created the EZLN. traction as a confluence of better or for worse. It was the that still exists in Chiapas. Yet the a s " c o m p a s " ( s h o r t f r o m coordination for the Zapatista health They drew inspiration from indigenous cosmo-vision, Marxist necessity to do something in the face Zapatistas chose to highlight their compañeros - partner), and all clinics, schools, community banks Emiliano Zapata, who fought in the philosophy and progressive of millennial injustice, the successes by opening the doors to express an intense pride to be part of and independent media projects. Mexican revolution in the early 20th theological thought to counter the Zapatista resistance. dispossession and poverty. The Each student was assigned a EZLN germinated the seed of "Ya votán, or guardian of the same Basta - Enough Already!" gender, who was responsible for Chiapas, is rich in flora and guiding, translating, and caring for fauna, containing between 50 and 80 the student at all times. The students percent of Mexico's biodiversity, and votánes stayed together with a water reserves and mineral Zapatista family in their home - resources. However, the richness of usually a humble structure of wood, natural resources has never mud and corrugated metal. The translated into prosperity for the majority of Zapatista families speak p o p u l a t i o n , e s p e c i a l l y t h e an indigenous language, and indigenous people who often live in Subcomandante Marcos explained extreme poverty in marginalized in a communiqué the importance of communities. It is estimated that 40 having the votánes translate for the percent of the state's population students. "You will, of course, be left speak an indigenous language, and with the doubt as to whether your the EZLN is composed of Tzotzil, question was adequately translated Tzeltal, Chol and Tojolabal and if the answer you got is the same communities. The Zapatistas as that which the teacher gave. denounced their marginalization in But isn't that exactly what an indignation we felt was the most their communities with the the first declaration of the Lacandon indigenous person is subject to with century, declaring that the land overwhelming characteristic of Escuelita, "The Little School: Resistance to NAFTA, the Jungle: "We have been denied the a translator in the government courts Death of the Mexican Farmer belonged to those who worked it. humanity." Freedom According to the of justice? Escuelita students Continuing his revolutionary most elemental preparation so they On January 1, 1994, the Our Word is Our Weapon Zapatistas." During three different participated in the daily activities of tradition, the EZLN rebelled to can use us as cannon fodder and NAFTA free trade agreement The Zapatista uprising in 1994 rounds of la Escuelita, Mexican and campesino life: collecting firewood, demand work, land, shelter, food, pillage the wealth of our country. entered Mexico with vigor, lasted 12 days and left an estimated international solidarity activists, harvesting yucca, grinding corn to health, education, independence, They don't care that we have promising foreign investment and death toll of 100 people. On the 12th students, mothers, teachers and make tortillas, cleaning the cattle democracy, freedom, justice and nothing, absolutely nothing, not economic prosperity at the expense day, a demonstration of civil society many other people joined with the field and collecting water in nearby peace for all the Mexican people. even a roof over our heads, no land, of the plunder of natural resources. of hundreds of thousands of people Zapatistas to share the joys and creeks or rivers. In some Their ideas rapidly gained traction no work, no health care, no food nor NAFTA is largely credited for in Mexico City shouting "You are difficulties of the daily construction communities, the tasks were gender- as a confluence of indigenous education." flooding the Mexican market with not alone," helped put pressure on of life with dignity. separated, with the women mostly relegated to the houses and the men subsidized corn from the United the government to accept a Daily Life: Dignity Triumphs States, which decimated farmers' ceasefire. in the fields; while in other over Money livelihoods and provoked massive From that moment on, the communities, students reported that During the Little School migration to the United States. Two Zapatistas have never apologized the work was shared more. When y e a r s p r i o r t o N A F TA ' s for rising up in arms, but they have implementation, former President prioritized words as their primary Carlos Salinas opened the weapon of choice. floodgates to land privatization by It's been 30 years since the reforming Article 27, which had birth of the EZLN, and these protected communally owned land indigenous guerillas continue to known as ejidos, created during the surprise the world with their lyrical Mexican revolution. Thus, the poetry and tenacity for profound introduction of NAFTA provided social transformation. Their strength the perfect context for the uprising is founded in their communities' of the indigenous guerillas that ability to weave new kinds of anti- formed the EZLN. capitalist social relationships, even

38 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 39 students weren't working in the representatives, and at the micro Zapatista communities. There is a have been many advances for and children, while they were government social welfare fields or houses, they were expected level, there are local people hospital in each Caracol, and in the women's rights. Young Zapatista praying in a church in the programs serve to superficially to read the Zapatista books about responsible for ensuring justice and Caracol, La Garrucha, there is a women are aware of their rights, are community of Acteal. They were improve conditions only, for self-government, autonomous coordinating health, education, dental office, clinical laboratory and able to choose whom they marry, Zapatistas sympathizers, and there example, through the donation of resistance and the participation of agro-ecology and collective work of ambulance - while in La Realidad, and know that if their husband uses has been evidence that the guns used concrete to construct their homes or women in autonomous government. each small town. there is a surgical operating room violence against them, the against them had come from the chemical fertilizers, which make the They also met with various leaders Their efforts in constructing and herbal lab. Traditional medicine community assembly will intervene government. This episode was then farmers increasingly dependent on in the community, who explained autonomy could not be understood drawing on ancestral knowledge is and defend the woman. Zapatista known as the Massacre of Acteal. the government. how their cooperatives operate and without focusing on their imparted in the communities with communities are dry, and the Andalusia, also coauthor of Resistance Till the Death how they interact with the various indigenous ethics and principles the presence of herbalists, bone eradication of alcoholism and drug this piece, studied in the community Many criticize the Zapatistas levels of government. ofmandar obedenciedo: to serve and healers and midwives. The Zapatista addiction has done much to curb of Comandante Abel, which has because they have not won the fight In 2003, the Zapatistas created not be served; represent and not Rebel Autonomous Education domestic violence. s u f f e r e d f r o m n u m e r o u s against the official government or the five caracoles, which serve as supplant; build and not destroy; System (SERAZ) has created Itandehui, a coauthor of this paramilitary threats, and where have not ended oppression against centers of the "good government" propose and not impose; and e l e m e n t a r y s c h o o l s i n a l l article recounted how two women in inhabitants were displaced from indigenous people across the whole and meeting points for the Rebel convince, not defeat, from below not communities and caused a boom in the MAREZ San Manuel asked her their land and river two years ago at country or even in their own Z a p a t i s t a A u t o n o m o u s above. No autonomous authority literacy rates. Secondary education how it was that she didn't have gunpoint. When they denounced the communities. In contrast, much of Municipalities (MAREZ). There are receives a salary, as it is considered is a little more difficult to access, but children and what could they do to violence online, there was an Mexico has been ravaged by a 27 MAREZ operating in rebel an honor to serve the people. The does exist at the Caracoles. have fewer children. While there is outpouring of support from local downward spiral of violence t e r r i t o r y , w h i c h o c c u p y h o m e c o m m u n i t y o f t h e Independent media plays a crucial basic sex education in the and international activists. provoked by drug cartels - the approximately one-third of the total representatives of the good role in the Zapatista struggle, and c o m m u n i t i e s , t h e u s e o f Community members recounted politicians, soldiers and police land area of the state of Chiapas. government donates corn and beans there are currently 10 community contraceptive methods is still how the presence of human rights working in cahoots with them and Caracol means snail shell, and it is a to be consumed by them while they radio stations. La Garrucha has its associated with government control observers and the online support the ill-named government "War on reference to the slow place of these are living and working in the own media center, where people because, in the past decades, helped curb the paramilitary threat. Drugs." Zapatistas have been mollusks that advance slowly, but Caracol. learn community filmmaking and thousands of indigenous women had While students stayed in this largely successful at keeping this still advance, a bit like the Zapatista Health, Education, Media and radio broadcasting. Caracoles also IUDs introduced without their seemingly idyllic community, they kind of violence out of their government. boast shoe workshops and textile, consent, as a policy of population were reminded of the threat of communities and also have curbed At the Caracoles, the meetings Credit Unions control. violence when the paramilitary There have been great transportation and consumer migration for economic purposes to of the "good government" are held Government Betrayal, community across the river raised advances in public health in cooperatives. They have also larger Mexican cities or the United with a group of 24 indigenous Counter-Insurgency Efforts flags signaling that they were States. representatives who are elected by p r e p a r i n g t o a t t a c k . Itandehui asked her votán, I n 1 9 9 6 , t h e f e d e r a l c o m m u n i t y a s s e m b l y. T h e Counterinsurgency often takes the Irene, if she ever thought she would government signed the San Andres representatives rotate every three face of "development." In January surrender to the government and Accords, pledging to recognize the years, and they aim to have equal 2013, right-wing Mexican President accept aid to fulfill the material rights of indigenous peoples. None numbers - half men and half women. Enrique Peña-Nieto launched a needs of her nine-member family, of the three major political parties They administer justice and "Crusade Against Hunger" and and she responded, "The compas have complied with this promise, coordinate the work of education, announced the introduction of the already paid for this land with their deepening Zapatista's mistrust of the health and economy for each program in Las Margaritas, a blood; we cannot give up." Irene's government. Various Zapatista Caracol. Each municipality has community that was key during the sister accepted government communities are situated right community assemblies with elected Zapatista uprising. The program will subsidies, but she still remains alongside what they refer to as inject 4 million pesos to combat steadfast in her decision. "My sister partidista communities, where the formed their own autonomous credit hunger in the 400 municipalities tells me to stop fighting because the people are aligned with political unions, prioritizing cash loans for with the lowest rates of development government now wants to build me a parties. During the Escuelita, many emergencies, with low-interest rates in Mexico, 55 of which are located cement house, but those are crumbs; Zapatistas spoke of the frequency in and loans for economic projects, in Chiapas, according to official I am Zapatista, and I'll die Zapatista, which the partidistas accessed their some with a priority given to women figures. Critics have said that these with dignity." seeking to start cooperative health clinics and also the local businesses. government to resolve problems. However, often relations with Striving to Break with partidista neighbors are not so Patriarchal Norms peaceful, as many of those Despite Zapatista efforts to communities are also home to encourage women's participation in paramilitaries financed by political the good government, it is still parties with the goal of counter- difficult for them to escape their insurgency. The most famous roles of preparing food and caring instance of paramilitary violence for their children. While many occurred in December 1997 when a attendees of the Escuelita criticized group massacred 45 Tzotzil gender divides, it is clear that there indigenous people, largely women

40 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 41 students weren't working in the representatives, and at the micro Zapatista communities. There is a have been many advances for and children, while they were government social welfare fields or houses, they were expected level, there are local people hospital in each Caracol, and in the women's rights. Young Zapatista praying in a church in the programs serve to superficially to read the Zapatista books about responsible for ensuring justice and Caracol, La Garrucha, there is a women are aware of their rights, are community of Acteal. They were improve conditions only, for self-government, autonomous coordinating health, education, dental office, clinical laboratory and able to choose whom they marry, Zapatistas sympathizers, and there example, through the donation of resistance and the participation of agro-ecology and collective work of ambulance - while in La Realidad, and know that if their husband uses has been evidence that the guns used concrete to construct their homes or women in autonomous government. each small town. there is a surgical operating room violence against them, the against them had come from the chemical fertilizers, which make the They also met with various leaders Their efforts in constructing and herbal lab. Traditional medicine community assembly will intervene government. This episode was then farmers increasingly dependent on in the community, who explained autonomy could not be understood drawing on ancestral knowledge is and defend the woman. Zapatista known as the Massacre of Acteal. the government. how their cooperatives operate and without focusing on their imparted in the communities with communities are dry, and the Andalusia, also coauthor of Resistance Till the Death how they interact with the various indigenous ethics and principles the presence of herbalists, bone eradication of alcoholism and drug this piece, studied in the community Many criticize the Zapatistas levels of government. ofmandar obedenciedo: to serve and healers and midwives. The Zapatista addiction has done much to curb of Comandante Abel, which has because they have not won the fight In 2003, the Zapatistas created not be served; represent and not Rebel Autonomous Education domestic violence. s u f f e r e d f r o m n u m e r o u s against the official government or the five caracoles, which serve as supplant; build and not destroy; System (SERAZ) has created Itandehui, a coauthor of this paramilitary threats, and where have not ended oppression against centers of the "good government" propose and not impose; and e l e m e n t a r y s c h o o l s i n a l l article recounted how two women in inhabitants were displaced from indigenous people across the whole and meeting points for the Rebel convince, not defeat, from below not communities and caused a boom in the MAREZ San Manuel asked her their land and river two years ago at country or even in their own Z a p a t i s t a A u t o n o m o u s above. No autonomous authority literacy rates. Secondary education how it was that she didn't have gunpoint. When they denounced the communities. In contrast, much of Municipalities (MAREZ). There are receives a salary, as it is considered is a little more difficult to access, but children and what could they do to violence online, there was an Mexico has been ravaged by a 27 MAREZ operating in rebel an honor to serve the people. The does exist at the Caracoles. have fewer children. While there is outpouring of support from local downward spiral of violence t e r r i t o r y , w h i c h o c c u p y h o m e c o m m u n i t y o f t h e Independent media plays a crucial basic sex education in the and international activists. provoked by drug cartels - the approximately one-third of the total representatives of the good role in the Zapatista struggle, and c o m m u n i t i e s , t h e u s e o f Community members recounted politicians, soldiers and police land area of the state of Chiapas. government donates corn and beans there are currently 10 community contraceptive methods is still how the presence of human rights working in cahoots with them and Caracol means snail shell, and it is a to be consumed by them while they radio stations. La Garrucha has its associated with government control observers and the online support the ill-named government "War on reference to the slow place of these are living and working in the own media center, where people because, in the past decades, helped curb the paramilitary threat. Drugs." Zapatistas have been mollusks that advance slowly, but Caracol. learn community filmmaking and thousands of indigenous women had While students stayed in this largely successful at keeping this still advance, a bit like the Zapatista Health, Education, Media and radio broadcasting. Caracoles also IUDs introduced without their seemingly idyllic community, they kind of violence out of their government. boast shoe workshops and textile, consent, as a policy of population were reminded of the threat of communities and also have curbed At the Caracoles, the meetings Credit Unions control. violence when the paramilitary There have been great transportation and consumer migration for economic purposes to of the "good government" are held Government Betrayal, community across the river raised advances in public health in cooperatives. They have also larger Mexican cities or the United with a group of 24 indigenous Counter-Insurgency Efforts flags signaling that they were States. representatives who are elected by p r e p a r i n g t o a t t a c k . Itandehui asked her votán, I n 1 9 9 6 , t h e f e d e r a l c o m m u n i t y a s s e m b l y. T h e Counterinsurgency often takes the Irene, if she ever thought she would government signed the San Andres representatives rotate every three face of "development." In January surrender to the government and Accords, pledging to recognize the years, and they aim to have equal 2013, right-wing Mexican President accept aid to fulfill the material rights of indigenous peoples. None numbers - half men and half women. Enrique Peña-Nieto launched a needs of her nine-member family, of the three major political parties They administer justice and "Crusade Against Hunger" and and she responded, "The compas have complied with this promise, coordinate the work of education, announced the introduction of the already paid for this land with their deepening Zapatista's mistrust of the health and economy for each program in Las Margaritas, a blood; we cannot give up." Irene's government. Various Zapatista Caracol. Each municipality has community that was key during the sister accepted government communities are situated right community assemblies with elected Zapatista uprising. The program will subsidies, but she still remains alongside what they refer to as inject 4 million pesos to combat steadfast in her decision. "My sister partidista communities, where the formed their own autonomous credit hunger in the 400 municipalities tells me to stop fighting because the people are aligned with political unions, prioritizing cash loans for with the lowest rates of development government now wants to build me a parties. During the Escuelita, many emergencies, with low-interest rates in Mexico, 55 of which are located cement house, but those are crumbs; Zapatistas spoke of the frequency in and loans for economic projects, in Chiapas, according to official I am Zapatista, and I'll die Zapatista, which the partidistas accessed their some with a priority given to women figures. Critics have said that these with dignity." seeking to start cooperative health clinics and also the local businesses. government to resolve problems. However, often relations with Striving to Break with partidista neighbors are not so Patriarchal Norms peaceful, as many of those Despite Zapatista efforts to communities are also home to encourage women's participation in paramilitaries financed by political the good government, it is still parties with the goal of counter- difficult for them to escape their insurgency. The most famous roles of preparing food and caring instance of paramilitary violence for their children. While many occurred in December 1997 when a attendees of the Escuelita criticized group massacred 45 Tzotzil gender divides, it is clear that there indigenous people, largely women

40 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 41 Activities POLICE EXCESS PBI's National Convention - 2014

In Canada a man was detained by police and put into a mental hospital A Call to Unite and Organise Moralist Politicians against his will after he was seen giving away cash On March 1 and 2, 2014 the national convention of Proutist Bloc,India was held at Ambedkar Bhavan,Rani Jhansi Road, New Delhi. Around 200 Proutists from Odisha, Bihar, Vidarbh, Punjab, Haryana, MP, UP, Karnatak and Delhi attended the event. The convention was followed by a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar,Delhi on March 3,2014 to voice their demand for economic democracy and political stability in India, and to highlight the issue of the Police Force Man usurpation of natural resources of Odisha. Into Mental Hospital For Handing Out Free Money

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Richard Wright A man who was spotted all over H o s p i t a l , a l l town giving away free money, was because “he had recently taken against his will and some extra money put in a mental hospital as so he decided to punishment for his random acts of share it around kindness. Richard Wright was w i t h s o m e pulled over by police because he fit h o m e l e s s a n d the description of a man who was needy people in giving away 100$ and 50$ bills to H a l i f a x a n d On March 1, 2014 the convention started with the lighting of lamps by Acarya. Santosananda Avadhuta and the people, asking them to pay it Dartmouth.” While garlanding of the picture of PBI's founder, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar by Subhash Chand Tyagi, Baljeet Aditya, forward if they didn't need all of it the hospital refuses Arjun Narayan Chaudhary and other esteemed PBI office-bearers. In his inaugural speech Public Relations Secretary themselves. to give any details Acarya Santosanand Avadhuta called upon all the moralists to get united and fight against economic, cultural and “It was somebody who called a b o u t h i s the cats going without food, and the social exploitation. He added that the politics should be the domain of only moralists. the [Queens District] detachment treatment, his daughter made a made pipes freeing once he was informed Vice-chairman and western India incharge Dr. S. D. Dhotre said that only PBI, through the application of and asked for a wellness check on a post detailing the inhumane that he would be detained for 3 days. PROUT, can solve all the burning problems of the country. Vice-chairman Naeem Khan laid emphasis on the role of cooperatives in fighting against the capitalistic menace. Another Vice-chairman Prof. Kulmani Nayak from Odisha him,” said Sgt. Leanne Butler of the conditions that he is experiencing. At this point he was told to sit down said that only decentralization of economy according to Proutistic principles can make every corner of the country self- Prince Edward Island Police According to her post, “he was and shut up or he would get a Department. “Members were on sufficient. stripped of all his belongings and needle.” On the second day PBI delegates from other states spoke about the various activities and movements undertaken their way to his house when they locked in a small concrete room with The attitude from the hospital by the party in their respective states. Kanhu Charan Behura, the organizing secretary of PBI, informed the audience recognized his vehicle.” “The a tiny window and a camera inside. has been alarming, not only can they about how the party is taking lead in protesting against the usurpation of natural resources of Odisha by big corporates officers concluded that the He was left there for 8 hours with hold someone against their will on in cahoots with the government. He also said that the Proutists in Odisha will leave no stone unturned in protesting gentleman should go to the hospital only 2 pieces of white bread to eat, the whim of two doctors and against all sorts of exploitation and in the next five years Odisha will see its first Proutist Government. With this for further assessment by a medical and he was forced against his will to someone reporting a “wellness objective in view, the party cadres in Odisha are all geared up for participating in the forthcoming Lok Sabha and health person,” she added. swallow 2 small white pills. The check”, but they also feel that they Vidhan Sabha elections. Besides him other delegates from Odisha gave fiery speeches highlighting the issues of the Although he has not been charged people there would not tell him what are doing the man a favor by holding state and reiterated their resolution to fight tooth and nail against the exploitation. Uday Kumar Sahu, Convenor of with a crime, he has been taken medication he was taking. When he him captive. “We appreciate the PBI, Madhya Pradesh, emphasised the need of intensive and extensive people's movement under the banner of PBI. It against his will, and his family is asked the guard if he could use the seriousness of this situation and the will prove productive in mass mobilisation against exploitation. trying to get him released phone he was ignored and became impact on our patient and their Another vibrant speaker and Proutist from Vidarbha Madhukar Nistane told about the progress of the party in his immediately. frustrated because he was worried family,” said Pam Trainor, executive region. He used this occasion to reaffirm PBI's demand for a separate Vidarbha State. Amitabh Verma, General “They think he is sick and has about Ashley and I, since he is our director of Mental Health for Health Secretary, PBI, Delhi state, drew attention to the various issues of public interest in which the party can play an mental issues … but I know he does soul provider. The workers there did P.E.I. She added, “it is important for important or decisive role. Party chairman Subhash Chand Tyagi stressed the need of discipline and hard work for the not,” Wright's teenage daughter, not care whatsoever about me or the public to understand that patients success. He said that PBI should be perceived by the public as an alternative to the present political parties which have Chelsey, wrote in a Facebook post.. Ashley, we could have been home are admitted to our hospitals, sunk deep into the quagmire of corruption. PBI's Vice-chairman Baljeet Aditya spoke in his usual fiery style, exhorting the cadres and activists to do away She also said that her father has been with no heat/food but they didn't programs and/or health-care with the rule of the corrupt. Another speaker, Ravindra Singh, spoke on the need of PBI in the present socio-politico- held in the psychiatric ward of care. They would not let him contact services because they can benefit economic scenario of the country. He told how PBI is different from the rest of the political parties and how only it can Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth us. My dad was also worried about from the care that we provide.”

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42 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 43 bring about a real revolution with Neo-humanism and Prout as its philosophical base. He also asked the audience to no stone unturned in making a dignified employment available to every person willing to work and people can have beware of fake revolutionaries, who are the puppets or stooges of capitalists. their right legally protected and redressed. Besides anchoring all the sessions of the convention Rajesh Singh presented his General-Secretary's report, 2. Agriculture should be given the status of industry: PBI believes that farmers can get freedom from all their highlighting the important events, activities and achievements of the party since the last convention. In addition he problems only if agriculture is recognized as an industry and has all the facilities enjoyed by the industry today. They used the occasion to educate the audience about PBI, explaining its principles and policies , and removing any should be given the right to fix the price of their produce like all other industries. misconceptions about it. 3. Prime Minister and Chief Ministers should be elected by people directly: India has been facing political On the last day of the convention Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Kanhu Charan Behura and Baljeet Aditya instability for past many years as no single party is able to form a stable government at the centre due to the lack of were felicitated for their valuable contribution to the party and the movement. The occasion was also used to release clear mandate. This is the case with many states too. The elections and re-elections do no public good. PBI, therefore, Prout Mimansa, a book by Arjun Narayan Chaudhary on the socio-economic theory PROUT. demands that PM and CMs should be directly elected by the voters, who can then form their council of There were some new inductions. Renu Poddar was made the head of women's wing, PBI, Delhi. Acarya ministers/cabinet from the elected representatives irrespective of their parties. It will lead to greater stability, better Santosananda Avadhuta was made the national convener of the party. Ravindra Singh, who had been working as the representation and stop horse-trading. Media Secretary, PBI, Delhi was inducted into the national committee as Public Relations Secretary. 4. Usurpation of natural resources of Odisha must be stopped: Nature has endowed Odisha with lots of On this occasion Sundaram Chaudhary and RP Nirala sang a few inspiring Proutist songs and thrilled the minerals yet it is the poorest state of India. It is because big corporations and capitalists are usurping the natural audience, making the atmosphere charged with revolutionary fervour. They were accompanied by Pranav Koul, wealth that belongs to local inhabitants of the state. So far minerals and other resources worth Rs.60,000 crores have Publication Secretary, PBI, whose silent but relentless contribution made the convention a grand success. been drained out of Odisha. PBI demands that this money must be returned to the state and used for the emancipation In his concluding speech Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta reminded everybody of the high ideals and practical of Odiya people, who are languishing in poverty and unemployment leading to social unrest. needs Proutist Bloc, India stands for. He said that while our economy needs to be decentralized to fulfill the needs and aspirations of the masses, the politics must be centralized in the hands of staunch moralists, or rather politics A large number of PBI cadres and office-bearers from Bihar, Odisha, Maharastra, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar should be considered the domain of only moralists. He said that politicians at the helm who are steeped in corruption Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi etc. gathered at Jantar Mantar and voiced the demands and concerns mentioned pose a challenge to his manhood. He called upon all the cadres of the party to work vigorously to bring an abrupt end above. In addition to the party cadres the gathering included some activists related to other socio-political to the rule of immoralists, fulfilling the wish of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar,the founder of the party. movements who had come to support the demands of PBI. It was also resolved that party will hold its next national convention in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The speakers including Rajesh Singh, Madhukar Nistane, Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Kanhu Charan On March 3, 2014, PBI held a day-long dharna to voice its following demands for the economic democracy and Behura and other cadres unequivocally spoke about the need of implementing PROUT and, how and why only a political stability in India: Proutist government can implement it to bring about economic democracy in the country. Whole day Proutist songs 1. Right to employment should be made a fundamental right : PBI strongly believes that the Right To sung by RP Nirala kept everybody in a revolutionary mood. A memorandum stating the above demands was also Employment should be declared a fundamental right in the constitution, so that state and central governments leave submitted to the President, the Prime Minister, and the Home Minister of India. bring about a real revolution with Neo-humanism and Prout as its philosophical base. He also asked the audience to no stone unturned in making a dignified employment available to every person willing to work and people can have beware of fake revolutionaries, who are the puppets or stooges of capitalists. their right legally protected and redressed. Besides anchoring all the sessions of the convention Rajesh Singh presented his General-Secretary's report, 2. Agriculture should be given the status of industry: PBI believes that farmers can get freedom from all their highlighting the important events, activities and achievements of the party since the last convention. In addition he problems only if agriculture is recognized as an industry and has all the facilities enjoyed by the industry today. They used the occasion to educate the audience about PBI, explaining its principles and policies , and removing any should be given the right to fix the price of their produce like all other industries. misconceptions about it. 3. Prime Minister and Chief Ministers should be elected by people directly: India has been facing political On the last day of the convention Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Kanhu Charan Behura and Baljeet Aditya instability for past many years as no single party is able to form a stable government at the centre due to the lack of were felicitated for their valuable contribution to the party and the movement. The occasion was also used to release clear mandate. This is the case with many states too. The elections and re-elections do no public good. PBI, therefore, Prout Mimansa, a book by Arjun Narayan Chaudhary on the socio-economic theory PROUT. demands that PM and CMs should be directly elected by the voters, who can then form their council of There were some new inductions. Renu Poddar was made the head of women's wing, PBI, Delhi. Acarya ministers/cabinet from the elected representatives irrespective of their parties. It will lead to greater stability, better Santosananda Avadhuta was made the national convener of the party. Ravindra Singh, who had been working as the representation and stop horse-trading. Media Secretary, PBI, Delhi was inducted into the national committee as Public Relations Secretary. 4. Usurpation of natural resources of Odisha must be stopped: Nature has endowed Odisha with lots of On this occasion Sundaram Chaudhary and RP Nirala sang a few inspiring Proutist songs and thrilled the minerals yet it is the poorest state of India. It is because big corporations and capitalists are usurping the natural audience, making the atmosphere charged with revolutionary fervour. They were accompanied by Pranav Koul, wealth that belongs to local inhabitants of the state. So far minerals and other resources worth Rs.60,000 crores have Publication Secretary, PBI, whose silent but relentless contribution made the convention a grand success. been drained out of Odisha. PBI demands that this money must be returned to the state and used for the emancipation In his concluding speech Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta reminded everybody of the high ideals and practical of Odiya people, who are languishing in poverty and unemployment leading to social unrest. needs Proutist Bloc, India stands for. He said that while our economy needs to be decentralized to fulfill the needs and aspirations of the masses, the politics must be centralized in the hands of staunch moralists, or rather politics A large number of PBI cadres and office-bearers from Bihar, Odisha, Maharastra, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar should be considered the domain of only moralists. He said that politicians at the helm who are steeped in corruption Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi etc. gathered at Jantar Mantar and voiced the demands and concerns mentioned pose a challenge to his manhood. He called upon all the cadres of the party to work vigorously to bring an abrupt end above. In addition to the party cadres the gathering included some activists related to other socio-political to the rule of immoralists, fulfilling the wish of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar,the founder of the party. movements who had come to support the demands of PBI. It was also resolved that party will hold its next national convention in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The speakers including Rajesh Singh, Madhukar Nistane, Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Kanhu Charan On March 3, 2014, PBI held a day-long dharna to voice its following demands for the economic democracy and Behura and other cadres unequivocally spoke about the need of implementing PROUT and, how and why only a political stability in India: Proutist government can implement it to bring about economic democracy in the country. Whole day Proutist songs 1. Right to employment should be made a fundamental right : PBI strongly believes that the Right To sung by RP Nirala kept everybody in a revolutionary mood. A memorandum stating the above demands was also Employment should be declared a fundamental right in the constitution, so that state and central governments leave submitted to the President, the Prime Minister, and the Home Minister of India. PBI Fields Eight Candidates Rajasthan University Hosts National Seminar in Odisha General Elections on Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s Contributions Bhubaneswar : Proutist Bloc India ( PBI ) Odisha state has fielded total eight candidates in the ensuing General Elections to Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies – two from Parliamentary constituencies and six from assembly constituencies. ( Odisha comprises two Samajas according to Proutist socio-economic zones-----Kosal Samaja and Utakal Samaja ). Following is the list of candidates with their respective constituencies and Samajas :

Dr. Kulmani Nayak Shankar Lal Agrawala Dolakar Bhoi Aditya Pradhan Acting Chairman of Odisha State PBI Sambalpur Parliamentary Constituency Deogarh Assembly Constituency Kantamal Assembly Constituency Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency Symbol : Flute Kosal Samaja Symbol : Flute Kosal Samaja Symbol : Gas Cylinder Kosal Samaja Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Jaipur : Department of Sanskrit, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and Renaissance Universal, Jaipur Chapter jointly organized national seminar on Shrii Shrii Ananadamurti’s contribution to Philosophy, Language, Literature, Music, Science and Economics at the premises of Sanskrit Department, Rajasthan University, Jaipur. The seminar was inaugurated by Prof. Vinod Shastri, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Rajasthan University, Jaipur. Prof.Shastri dwelt at length on multifaceted personality of Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji . He also said Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji has written more than 200 books on philosophy, science, sociology, history, linguistics, economics, yoga psychology, ethics, metaphysics, music etc. He further said research work on Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji's philosophy deserves to be started immediately in all universities. Prof. Beena Agrawal, HOD, Sanskrit, Rajasthan University, Jaipur delivered welcome speech. She explained the meaning of Dharma in the light of Shrii Anandamurtiji's teachings. Acharya Vishveshvarjii,a senior Acharya of Ananda Marga delivered introductory speech. Prof. Kusum Jain, Department of Philosophy, Rajasthan University, Jaipur presided over the first session of the day long seminar. Dr. Ram Nath Jha, Associate Professor, Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi gave talk on Ananda Sutram (Spiritual Philosophy) of Ananda Marga. He explained the essence of Ananda Sutram Hrisikesh Sadangi Khageswar Bal Pitambar Bhuiyan Chandramani Dehuri in philosophical and scientific mode and mentioned that Anandamurtiji has given substantial thoughts to start research Bhubaneswar North Assembly Constituency Bhubaneswar Ekamra Assembly Constituency Bhubaneswar Central Assembly Constituency Telkoi Assembly Constituency on the causal principles for understanding the mystery of creation of forms of objective world. He has also discussed the Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja ( Keonjhar District ) specific potential particles to cause the state of mass in the gross reality. The scientists have been able to study the nature Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja of sub particles which are the substrata of this universe but they are unable to understand the quantified particles which are the cause of given sub particles such as electron, protron etc. In this way the scientific contribution of Anandamurtiji is 200 years ahead in comparison to modern scientific experiments. Dr. Jha also talked about the nature of consciousness Dr. Nilu Singh - PBI Candidate as mentioned by Anandamurtiji in his foundational text Ananda Sutram. According to this text consciousness known as Shiv is the controlling reality of matter in contrast with the western from Muzaffarpur Parliamentary Constituency philosophy which claims matter as the fundamental principle. The philosophy of Anandamurtiji can play an important role to establish sustainable society where the material aspects of life is controlled by a higher state of consciousness by Muzaffarpur ( Bihar ) : Dr. Nilu Singh is contesting from Muzaffarpur educating society to lead their life as dignified existential need and not on the basis of greed. Dr. Jha concluded that the Parliamentary constituency in Bihar as Proutist Bloc India candidate. She is the philosophy of Anandamurtiji is the bridge between the traditional wisdom and the modern scientific achievements. The Head of Women's wing of Bihar State Committee. contemporary society essentially requires his philosophy to get equipped with the traditional knowledge and its Proutists of the district feel very enthusiastic to see her as their candidate. application in the context of modern sciences as well as day to day duties of our life. Dr. Ram Singh Chauhan, Sanskrit Dr. Nilu Singh is well known for her social service activities. Recently she has Department, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sharma, Department of Philosophy, Rajasthan actively campaigned for preventing the construction of dam on Bagmati river University, Jaipur delivered speech on Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s Spiritual Philosophy. Prof. J.D.Sharma, Zoology which has already displaced many families due to this project and is likely to Department, Rajasthan University, Jaipur spoke Anandamurtiji’s views on environment and animals. She also displace several hundred families in future. She was on hunger strike for a week explained the philosophy of Neo-humanism of Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji which helps to understand the relationship during the agitation. surrounding animate and inanimate world. Prof. Beena Agrawal, HOD, Sanskrit, Rajasthan University, Jaipur presided

46 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 47 PBI Fields Eight Candidates Rajasthan University Hosts National Seminar in Odisha General Elections on Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s Contributions Bhubaneswar : Proutist Bloc India ( PBI ) Odisha state has fielded total eight candidates in the ensuing General Elections to Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies – two from Parliamentary constituencies and six from assembly constituencies. ( Odisha comprises two Samajas according to Proutist socio-economic zones-----Kosal Samaja and Utakal Samaja ). Following is the list of candidates with their respective constituencies and Samajas :

46 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 47 A Book on PROUT as a New Business Model This upcoming book ( by Apeksit Mulay ) has been authored in best interest of global semiconductor industry with US semiconductor industry as an example. It covers a broad range of topics which have not been covered by most articles and books published on this topic for sustaining the progress of US microelectronics and semiconductor industry. The book covers topics such as Strategic importance of semiconductor industry to national economy, semiconductor manufacturing economics, Macroeconomics, Counterfeit electronics, US manufacturing supply chain, loss of US dominance in global semiconductor industry, policies for revival of US semiconductor industry because of its national importance, existing business models in industry and innovative business model for brilliant future of industry, geopolitical events and their effects on future of US semiconductor industry, sustaining Moore's law to overcome physical and economic limits of Moore's law, Socioeconomics, Macro-finance and impacts of Progressive Utilization Theory on sustaining Moore's law. Apekshit Mulay (Apek) Sr. Failure Analyst at Evans Analytical Group, over the second session. Prof. Pradeep Kumar Das, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Book Preface Macro-economist, Freelance Writer, Author Studies, JNU, New Delhi, delivered his speech on Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s contribution to Syntax ( based on his In 1965, the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in publishing his paper“Cramming more components onto book Varna Vijinana ). He explained difference between the terms ‘Philosophy of Language’ and ‘Philosophy in integrated circuits" in Electronics Magazine (19 April, 1965), made the observation that in the history of Language’. The use of the language for philosophizing any concept is what he said should be the domain of ‘Philosophy of language’. However, for the structure of languages which are uniquely similar, one has to see the philosophy of this computing hardware the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. structural similarity. This according to him is something that can be dealt in ‘Philosophy in language’. He also mentioned This law is now used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning, and to set targets for research that there is a rich discussion of such type in Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s above mentioned book. Prof. Das started the and development. discussion with a line from Rgvedic statement which reads as ‘language cuts forms in the ocean of reality’. He equated The capabilities (processing speed, memory capacity, sensors) of many digital electronic devices have this with ‘.. the responses of human mind to the categorization of human languages are amazingly similar’. It is believed been improving at roughly exponential rates, and are thereby strongly linked to Moore's law. This exponential in linguistics that languages have some sort of abstract organic unity. We should say that the production and the technological improvement in the electronic devices has dramatically enhanced the impact of digital comprehension of sentences is ultimately nothing more than the firing of neurons. We must take some examples to prove electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Indeed, Moore's Law has characterized a driving what this means for the audience outside linguistics. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that has been enriched by force of technological advancements and socio-economic developments in the late 20th and early 21st Chomsky’s great contribution in the field. Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji has discussed Syntax as one of the chapters in the centuries. book-Varna Vijnanana---- the science on letters. The Chapter has all required ingredients that one needs to understand Moore's Law has had an amazing run for past several decades, with unmeasured economic impacts on US the complex nature of subject matter. It should not surprise us that this knowledge of syntax has been used extensively in Microelectronics industry. The progress of Moore's Law has even transformed the business model of US computational linguistics. Computational linguistics along with artificial intelligence is a very thriving field of studies in semiconductor industry and still continues to do so. However, now the immense problems of youth linguistic in modern times and will be strengthened as we work more and more on the structural similarities of the unemployment, huge capital investments, unsustainable trade and budget deficits as well as manufacturing languages across the world. Prof. Shalini Saxena, Department of Linguistic, Maharaja Acharya Sanskrit college, Jaipur, complexities constitute measures ofbankruptcy of economic wisdom, which are making it difficult to sustain spoke on Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s Contribution to Linguistics. Prof. Maya Rani Tak, Dean, faculty of fine arts and Moore's Law and its economic impact on US Semiconductor industry. There is hence an urgent need for new HOD, Music, Rajasthan University, Jaipur explained the essence of Prabhat Samgiita – Songs of new dawn. She told that ideas to constructively deal with these business and economic issues affecting the survival of the U.S. Shrii Shrii Anandamurtij has composed 5018 songs in eight different languages --- Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Bangla, Microelectronics industry. In this book, I have provided a solution for carving out a brilliant future of the US Angika, Magahi, Maithili and Urdu. She further said that according to Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji, the fundamental note Microelectronics and Semiconductor industry. The suggested solutions are resilient enough to solve the in his comprehensive ideology of life and in Prabhát Saîgiita is one of optimism. About his songs he says : “I am an economic and business problems facing this industry. optimist. Everyone should be an optimist in all matters, big and small. I have sung songs of hope to you and I shall The suggested recommendations call for a radical change in the economic thinking of semiconductor continue to do so. For I know that a person who aims to become whole, is sure to reach his goal. "Shrii Shrii Anandamurti founder of Ananda Marga was basically a spiritual preceptor. He wanted that the people who are stricken by despair and industry professionals and business leaders. These recommendations are (i) challenging the stereotyped sick with degeneration, to dance and sing their way towards the supreme attainment and bring to this earth, abundant economic views, questioning the sustainability of existing modes of conducting microelectronics business, and cheers and smiles, the river of heavenly music. For everyone is linked with everyone else through the kinship of the soul (ii) introducing new Research & Development (R&D) promoting ideas, business models, and economic – Vasudhaeva kutumbakam. There is no other way except this. But very often dark clouds of doubt hide the sun of faith. policies for revival of the U.S. semiconductor industry. Together, they constitute novel socio-technological and The traveler wavers. “Is this path then not for me?” One may be battered and bruised by the arrows of a thousand business-economic reforms towards a sustainable future of the microelectronics industry and its professionals. questions and doubts. The answers to such questions can be found in the songs of Prabhát Saîgiita. These songs are full of In this process of exposing the reader to an economic heresy, this book has also introduced a new business guidelines for spiritual seekers; the topics cover ardour, prayer, the pangs of separation, union, questioning, curiosity, the model for the U.S. Semiconductor industry based on what is known as Progressive Utilization Theory offering of the heart of the devotee, etc. She further told that Prabhát Samgiita contains songs to raise social (PROUT). But let us remember that John Maynard Keynes was also a heretic and so was the father of modern consciousness and to arouse in people the high ideal of universalism, so that they will feel inspired to create a universal economics, Adam Smith. The economic orthodoxy is repeatedly failing the business of operation for the U.S. family free from exploitation. The students of music department also sang three songs of Prabhat Samgiita. They Semiconductor Industry and its ability to sustain Moore's Law. So let heresy get a chance for continued enthralled the audience by their melodious voice. applicability of Moore's Law and the technological-business-economic growth of the U.S. Semiconductor Dr. Bela Joshi, Secretary, Renaissance Universal, gave vote of thanks. Industry towards maintaining its global leadership.

48 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 49 A Book on PROUT as a New Business Model This upcoming book ( by Apeksit Mulay ) has been authored in best interest of global semiconductor industry with US semiconductor industry as an example. It covers a broad range of topics which have not been covered by most articles and books published on this topic for sustaining the progress of US microelectronics and semiconductor industry. The book covers topics such as Strategic importance of semiconductor industry to national economy, semiconductor manufacturing economics, Macroeconomics, Counterfeit electronics, US manufacturing supply chain, loss of US dominance in global semiconductor industry, policies for revival of US semiconductor industry because of its national importance, existing business models in industry and innovative business model for brilliant future of industry, geopolitical events and their effects on future of US semiconductor industry, sustaining Moore's law to overcome physical and economic limits of Moore's law, Socioeconomics, Macro-finance and impacts of Progressive Utilization Theory on sustaining Moore's law. Apekshit Mulay (Apek) Sr. Failure Analyst at Evans Analytical Group, over the second session. Prof. Pradeep Kumar Das, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Book Preface Macro-economist, Freelance Writer, Author Studies, JNU, New Delhi, delivered his speech on Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s contribution to Syntax ( based on his In 1965, the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in publishing his paper“Cramming more components onto book Varna Vijinana ). He explained difference between the terms ‘Philosophy of Language’ and ‘Philosophy in integrated circuits" in Electronics Magazine (19 April, 1965), made the observation that in the history of Language’. The use of the language for philosophizing any concept is what he said should be the domain of ‘Philosophy of language’. However, for the structure of languages which are uniquely similar, one has to see the philosophy of this computing hardware the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. structural similarity. This according to him is something that can be dealt in ‘Philosophy in language’. He also mentioned This law is now used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning, and to set targets for research that there is a rich discussion of such type in Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji’s above mentioned book. Prof. Das started the and development. discussion with a line from Rgvedic statement which reads as ‘language cuts forms in the ocean of reality’. He equated The capabilities (processing speed, memory capacity, sensors) of many digital electronic devices have this with ‘.. the responses of human mind to the categorization of human languages are amazingly similar’. It is believed been improving at roughly exponential rates, and are thereby strongly linked to Moore's law. This exponential in linguistics that languages have some sort of abstract organic unity. We should say that the production and the technological improvement in the electronic devices has dramatically enhanced the impact of digital comprehension of sentences is ultimately nothing more than the firing of neurons. We must take some examples to prove electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Indeed, Moore's Law has characterized a driving what this means for the audience outside linguistics. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that has been enriched by force of technological advancements and socio-economic developments in the late 20th and early 21st Chomsky’s great contribution in the field. Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji has discussed Syntax as one of the chapters in the centuries. book-Varna Vijnanana---- the science on letters. The Chapter has all required ingredients that one needs to understand Moore's Law has had an amazing run for past several decades, with unmeasured economic impacts on US the complex nature of subject matter. It should not surprise us that this knowledge of syntax has been used extensively in Microelectronics industry. The progress of Moore's Law has even transformed the business model of US computational linguistics. Computational linguistics along with artificial intelligence is a very thriving field of studies in semiconductor industry and still continues to do so. However, now the immense problems of youth linguistic in modern times and will be strengthened as we work more and more on the structural similarities of the unemployment, huge capital investments, unsustainable trade and budget deficits as well as manufacturing languages across the world. Prof. Shalini Saxena, Department of Linguistic, Maharaja Acharya Sanskrit college, Jaipur, complexities constitute measures ofbankruptcy of economic wisdom, which are making it difficult to sustain spoke on Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s Contribution to Linguistics. Prof. Maya Rani Tak, Dean, faculty of fine arts and Moore's Law and its economic impact on US Semiconductor industry. There is hence an urgent need for new HOD, Music, Rajasthan University, Jaipur explained the essence of Prabhat Samgiita – Songs of new dawn. She told that ideas to constructively deal with these business and economic issues affecting the survival of the U.S. Shrii Shrii Anandamurtij has composed 5018 songs in eight different languages --- Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Bangla, Microelectronics industry. In this book, I have provided a solution for carving out a brilliant future of the US Angika, Magahi, Maithili and Urdu. She further said that according to Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji, the fundamental note Microelectronics and Semiconductor industry. The suggested solutions are resilient enough to solve the in his comprehensive ideology of life and in Prabhát Saîgiita is one of optimism. About his songs he says : “I am an economic and business problems facing this industry. optimist. Everyone should be an optimist in all matters, big and small. I have sung songs of hope to you and I shall The suggested recommendations call for a radical change in the economic thinking of semiconductor continue to do so. For I know that a person who aims to become whole, is sure to reach his goal. "Shrii Shrii Anandamurti founder of Ananda Marga was basically a spiritual preceptor. He wanted that the people who are stricken by despair and industry professionals and business leaders. These recommendations are (i) challenging the stereotyped sick with degeneration, to dance and sing their way towards the supreme attainment and bring to this earth, abundant economic views, questioning the sustainability of existing modes of conducting microelectronics business, and cheers and smiles, the river of heavenly music. For everyone is linked with everyone else through the kinship of the soul (ii) introducing new Research & Development (R&D) promoting ideas, business models, and economic – Vasudhaeva kutumbakam. There is no other way except this. But very often dark clouds of doubt hide the sun of faith. policies for revival of the U.S. semiconductor industry. Together, they constitute novel socio-technological and The traveler wavers. “Is this path then not for me?” One may be battered and bruised by the arrows of a thousand business-economic reforms towards a sustainable future of the microelectronics industry and its professionals. questions and doubts. The answers to such questions can be found in the songs of Prabhát Saîgiita. These songs are full of In this process of exposing the reader to an economic heresy, this book has also introduced a new business guidelines for spiritual seekers; the topics cover ardour, prayer, the pangs of separation, union, questioning, curiosity, the model for the U.S. Semiconductor industry based on what is known as Progressive Utilization Theory offering of the heart of the devotee, etc. She further told that Prabhát Samgiita contains songs to raise social (PROUT). But let us remember that John Maynard Keynes was also a heretic and so was the father of modern consciousness and to arouse in people the high ideal of universalism, so that they will feel inspired to create a universal economics, Adam Smith. The economic orthodoxy is repeatedly failing the business of operation for the U.S. family free from exploitation. The students of music department also sang three songs of Prabhat Samgiita. They Semiconductor Industry and its ability to sustain Moore's Law. So let heresy get a chance for continued enthralled the audience by their melodious voice. applicability of Moore's Law and the technological-business-economic growth of the U.S. Semiconductor Dr. Bela Joshi, Secretary, Renaissance Universal, gave vote of thanks. Industry towards maintaining its global leadership.

48 April 2014 | PROUT PROUT | April 2014 49 PRABHAT SAMGIITA { Song No. 150 } Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Give Strength, Give Me Strength I Want To Break All Bondages

BAL DA´----O MORE BAL DA´--O Give strength, give me strength SAB BANDHAN CHIRE DITE CAÍ, I want to break all bondages. SAB BANDHAN CHIRE DITE CA´----I Give melodies, give more melodies So I can always sing Your songs SUR DA´----O A´RO SUR DA´----O SADA´ JENO TAVA GAŃ GAÍ--, In the hopes and despair of gain or loss, SADA´ JENO TAVA GAŃ GA´---I--- Let my mind never be involved. In Your vast, cosmic vibration PAÓA´ NA´ PAÓA´R A´SHA´ NIRA´SHAÝ, Let me create a tiny stir. Let me merge myself in Your work MAN KE KAKHANO JENO NA´ JARAÍ Let me merge myself. EI, MAHA´ SPANDAN MA´JHE----, Let me create a tiny stir, let me merge myself. MAHA´ SPANDAN MA´JHE---- In Your work, let me merge myself. EK TÚKU NA´RA´ DIYE--, Let me create a tiny stir JENO JAÍ MISHE, Merging myself in Your work.

TOMA´RI KA´JE----- In monotonous, trite traditions MISHI-YA´ JAÍ GO-, MISHI-YA´ JAÍ GO- My mind refuses to remain EK TÚKU NA´RA´ DIYE MISHI-YA´ JETE CAÍ It wants to see, to be, in the nectar of melody TOMA´RI KA´JETE A´MI MISHI-YA´ JETE CAÍ In the earth’s countless flows. EK TÚKU NA´RA´ DIYE-- JENO JAÍ In the nectar of melody, it wants to see, to be MISHE TOMA´RI KA´JE----- On this earth, it wants to see, to be. EI GATAŃUGATIKTAÝ--, In countless flows, it wants to see, to be It wants to see, to be in the flow of melody MAN THEME JETE NA´HI CAÝ In the earth’s countless flows. DEKHE NITE CA´--Y SURER SUDHA´--Y, VASUDHA´R SHATEKA DHA´RA´------Y Give strength, give me strength DEKHE- JE NITE CAÝ, I want to destroy all my sam´ska´ras* DEKHE- JE NITE CAÝ Give melodies, give more melodies So I can always sing Your songs. SURER SUDHAÝ SE JE DEKHE- JE NITE CAÝ EI VASUDHAÝ SE JE DEKHE- JE NITE CAÝ SHATEK DHA´RAÝ SE JE DEKHE- JE NITE CAÝ DEKHE NITE CAÝ SURER SUDHAÝ, * Sam´ska´ras are the latent potential VASUDHA´--Y SHATEKA DHA´RAÝ reactions to past actions (karma) stored in the mind and awaiting expression in the present or BAL DA´----O MORE BAL DA´--O, future. SAB SAM´SKA´R BHENGE DITE CA´----I--- (2) SUR DA´----O A´RO SUR DAÓ----, SADA´ JENO TAVA GAŃ GA´---I--- (2) BAL DA´----O MORE BAL DA´--O (Translated from Bengali original)

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