Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the difference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
former President, Ethiopia
War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
President James Madison (1751–1836)
PROUT Editor's note: It becomes impossible to speak of PROUT without simultaneously speaking of the Supreme Consciousness, for the simple reason that PROUT is based on cardinal human values, and those values are realized when a human being's mind becomes parallel or coincides with the mind of the Supreme Consciousness. Hence, in order to study PROUT, we also need to study the Supreme Consciousness.
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THE SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS
You know, there is nothing disorderly in this Universe. Everything moves according to certain rules. In this solar system of ours, the sun is the nucleus, and so many planets are moving around the sun. In this etherial system, the earth is the nucleus, and the moon is moving around it. Similarly, in the atomic system also there is a nucleus and electrons move around the nucleus. In our cosmological order the Supreme Consciousness is the nucleus and so many animate and inanimate objects are moving around Him, knowingly or unknowingly. Human beings move knowingly and other animals, other less developed living beings, and also inanimate objects - even some human beings - move unknowingly, unconsciouly. The radius of those who move unknowingly remains unchanged, or even, due to their mean propensities, their radius may increase. But spiritual aspirants always try to lessen the length of their radius. They come closer and closer to the Supreme, and when they come to the nearest proximity, they become one with the Nucleus, and that is the stage of Salvation.
Now, so many entities, so many individuals are moving around Him; they have so many physical structures - long, short, white, black, learned, illiterate - but the common goal is the Nucleus, the Supreme Consciousness. There should be no shyness, no hatred, no complex in human beings because that Nucleus is the bigger "I" of everybody - that Nucleus is the Supreme Progenitor of all.
Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji
"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man,
woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will
build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every
hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."
Charles Sumner
"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the
people."
Frank Kent
"I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride."
William James
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
President Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
"The Supreme Consciousness is there in you as the oil is in the oilseed. Crush the seed through spritual practice (sa'dhana') and you attain Him; separate the mind from Consciousness and you will see that the resplendence of the Supreme Consciousness illuminates your whole inner being. He is there like butter in curd; churn it and He will appear from within. Churn your mind through spiritual practice and God will appear like butter from curd. He is like a subterranean river in you. Remove the sands of mind and you will find the clear, cool waters within."
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
