PROUT: August 2005 Archives

The sama'ja cakra [social cycle] moves on. After the Shu'dra Age [the age of manual workers] comes the age of warriors that is, the Ks'attriya Age; next comes the Vipra Age [the age of intellectuals]; then the Vaeshya Age [the age of capitalists]; and then, after shu'dra revolution,* in the second parikra'nti [peripheric evolution] of the social cycle, comes a new Ks'attriya Age the age of the ks'attriyas who led the shu'dra revolution. The social cycle moves on in this manner. By merely espousing idealism, its rotation cannot be checked.

Party politics is one of the factors which stands, or tries to stand, in the way of human unity. In fact party politics is even more dangerous than disease-causing germs. In party politics all the refined attributes of the human mind, such as simplicity and the spirit of service, slowly but surely get totally destroyed. Party affiliation commands more respect than individual ability; service to self, not service to people, is the main motto; ministerial office, rather than human welfare, is considered superior; and mass deception, political somersaults, etc., are most common phenomena. Instead of rectifying themselves, politicians want to accomplish everything through their grandiloquence. By identifying the weaknesses in others and by resorting to bombastic language, they incite one section of people against another so that they can usurp the seat of power and cling to it. Human beings will have to remain vigilant against persons of this type.