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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

the speaking tree - An Ideology For A New Generation


To train the mind, a base is required. In this case, the base is sama-samája tattva, social equality. What happens then through this movement towards spirituality or protopsycho-spirituality? Those who practise proto-psycho-spirituality can easily recognise those who are `demons' in human form. Then, after recognising them, it is their duty to expose them to others also, to make people understand that they are repeatedly harming human society. It is not enough for one to personally unmask them; one must open the eyes of others also. Only in this way can the well-being of the world be promoted.It will not be sufficient to lie peacefully in wait, in isolated ivory towers.One will have to spread one's wings and soar high into the blue firmament. One need not run about in search of the Nave, the Hub, the Nucleus; the Hub of this circum-rotarian universe is the hub of the individual also. This circum rotarian universe is controlled by one Centre both collectively and on a unitary basis. Thus each and every grain of dust, each and every blade of grass ­ is being equally controlled by that Supreme Hub.
Now, if, by some means, an individual can make his individual psychospiritual hub coincide with that circum rotarian spiritual Hub, then that individual will feel oneness with every grain of dust, with every blade of grass ­ that will be his psychology . This very realisation will make one's life-force throb throughout the entire universe. By means of this proto-psycho-spirituality one can fight against all sorts of socio-sentiments. Hypocrites who use socio-sentiments or geo-sentiments (national, regional), can also be easily detected in the light of proto-psycho-spirituality .
What is proto-psycho-spirituality?
Since it is the mind which advances towards spirituality , it is called `psychospirituality'. And it is called `proto' in the sense that it is a flickering entity ­ it is like a flickering flame, not like a steady flame. It is not something unruffled or fixed; it is expressive of movement.Hence it is not complete psycho-spirituality but proto-psycho-spirituality .And the mobility portion within the sys talsis of proto-psycho-spiritu ality is purely psychic; and the blissful stillness within the systalsis is purely spiritual.
So it is a happy blending of psy chic and spiritual strata. Thus I call it `psycho-spirituality'.
One more thing: Whenever people, after performing some activity , think of the Nucleus of the circum-rotarian universe, their minds become all-pervasive. Such people can never think of harming others; rather they will think only of universal welfare. In that elevated state of mind, they will easily detect those `demons' in human form and will acquire the necessary capability to properly guide all those who tend to be misguided by all sorts of socio-sentiments. Intelligent people should clearly realise this, and then create public awareness of the importance of sama-samája tattva and protopsycho-spirituality to fight against socio-sentiment. This is how the path of liberation will open up.
This must be done, for although there may be some individuals who, knowingly or unknowingly , are fighting against this socio-sentiment, the majority of people are in darkness. That is why you will have to carry the collective with you, because the collective is yours. The collective is not outside you ­ your future is inseparably connected with the collective fortune. You must take the entire collectivity with you and move towards the sweetest radiance of the new crimson dawn, beyond the veil of the darkest night.
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Monday, March 02, 2015

Economic and Political Weekly: Table of Contents

Half-hearted Embrace

The centre is less than enthusiastic about the Fourteenth Finance Commission's landmark report.

Is Sarva Dharma Samabhava Back?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's is a neo-Vedantic Hindu interpretation of Indian secularism.
Editorials
We are killing our urban residents through the air they breathe.
Strategic Affairs
For two centuries and more the Anglo-Saxon world has convinced India that its interests are best catered to under their protective gaze. Will India be able to break out of this hegemony?
Commentary
India justifiably feels uneasy about what plans China may have for the Brahmaputra in Tibet. It needs to raise the issue whenever there is evidence of planned diversion. But given our vulnerability as a downstream nation it is clear that we need...
Commentary
Govind Pansare fought against the right-wing agenda to appropriate the syncretic political and cultural traditions of Maharashtra. This seemed to have earned him the ire of divisive forces and political opponents. 
Commentary
A false narrative about the civil war in Ukraine prevails in the West -- that this is a war between Ukraine and Russia. This hostile positioning of Russia is in line with the need to heighten tensions between the North Atlantic Treaty...
Commentary
The National Sample Survey Office's survey of consumption expenditure is woefully inadequate for estimating the number of food-insecure households in India. Future surveys of NSSO need to collect information on the four pillars of food...
Commentary
The horror of contemporary terror attacks and warfare is the conjoining of vulnerability with helplessness. What contemporary horror achieves is the utter and complete annihilation of the structures that constitute the sustaining world of the...
Commentary
Since independence, India's national health policies have been aspirational but the end results have been limited. The National Health Policy 2015, which is in the process of being finalised, should, in place of the earlier "broadband...
Commentary
The draft national health policy suggests that public health services should be held accountable according to commercial principles, which would have a deleterious impact on public health.
Book Reviews
Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas by Barabara Harriss-White with Elisabetta Basile, Anita Dixit, Pinaki Joddar, Aseem Prakash, and Kaushal Vidyarthee, Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2014; pp 189,...
Book Reviews
State, Civil Society and Right to Education by Jeebanlata Salam, Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2013; pp xv+258, Rs 795.
Insight
The oil crash of 2014 is expected to have a moderate impact on the global economy with oil importers seeing a boost in growth. The long-term impacts on climate change are difficult to predict but it is very likely that these might even be...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
These articles on the challenges of development in post-war or post-conflict societies offer an opportunity to engage critically with the issue from a viewpoint that embraces politically contextualised and non-paradigmatic approaches to war and...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
The value of civil society lies in that it provides a space for alternative views, debate, and dissent. Yet, this paper points out, civil society in post-war Sri Lanka is captive to the forces of local and global politics. While this has resulted...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
The policies of the Sri Lankan state since the late 1970s have seen a widening gap between its neo-liberal foundations and its attempts to claim popular legitimacy, and this structure of politics seems set to persist. This paper argues that the...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
In Nepal, a decade-long insurgency, led by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) continued till 2006, claimed more than 13,000 lives, and displaced thousands of people. Arguing that Nepal has moved forward in reintegrating its former...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
Secure and just land tenure, and sound management of land and natural resources are crucial to easing conflicts between farmers, the State, and extractive industries. This paper underlines that Myanmar cannot hope to achieve inclusive social and...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
Development projects in the North East are packaged as economic interventions to improve the lives of people, but are detached from militarised ground realities. These initiatives to rebuild post-conflict societies mainly focus on training...
Conflict, Transition And Development / Special Issues
Afghanistan's hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links between the economic and political marketplaces in the country, and the pervasive rent-seeking practices of...
Special Articles
This paper analyses crime against women and children in Delhi based on two data sources, the National Crime Records Bureau and an empirical data set of the Perceptions Survey of the Delhi Human Development Report, 2013. Using the NCRB data, the...
Special Articles
This study analyses the impact of keeping crude petroleum, natural gas, motor spirit (gasoline/petrol), high-speed diesel (diesel), aviation turbine fuel and electricity out of the value-added tax scheme. Specifically, the paper finds that...
Economic Notes
An analysis of the new 2011-12 series of National Accounts Statistics to understand the trends of GDP growth and the sector-wise break-up. Data up to the advance estimates for 2014-15 are explored. The service sector continues to lead growth,...
Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
The Aam Aadmi Party’s campaigning style, particularly in the run-up to the 2015 Delhi elections, has been drawn largely from the Left's cultural organisations. Yet its electoral success and popularity in Delhi has far outreached and...
Web Exclusives
Kanu Bhavsar, one of the leaders of the Navnirman movement against the corrupt Congress regime in Gujarat in the 1970s, passed away in Delhi on 3 February 2015. Although Bhavsar did not publish a book, set up an institution or make a political...
Web Exclusives
The World Social Forum 2015 being held in Tunis may not present a welcome prospect for those who await the immediate consolidation of an alter-globalisation agenda. However it does suggest that the process of resistance may yet be as important as...
Reports From the States / Web Exclusives
The workers’ agitation in the Gurgaon Manesar belt demanding better wages and working conditions questions the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s “Make in India” promises.