Quotations: February 2007 Archives

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Any non-human or human being who wants to break the solidarity of society must be opposed. You will have to fight against such elements. You will have to fight all antisocial and anti-human forces in Asia, Europe, the world and the entire universe, and you must fight as a single entity. Whenever you fight against inhuman forces, all socio-economic units will fight as one. In this fight, you must fight for all the suppressed and oppressed people of the world.

~ Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar ~
Hard working people

Combating Religious Fanaticism

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The only way to combat religious fanaticism is to strengthen the logical wave. Through the study of science, we know that an eclipse is a physical phenomenon. The deities Ráhu and Ketu have nothing to do with it. Although this sort of superstitious belief is no doubt diminishing, there are some people who still worship mythological deities because they believe that the deities can be propitiated to release the sun and the moon from an eclipse. The reason is that the fear psychosis in human beings is stronger than logic. When human rationality is strengthened, irrational ideas will vanish from society. Many people today advocate the formation of theocratic states (dharmarasta). But when they use the term theocratic states, they mean religious states, not states which uphold the cause of righteousness. We should strive to establish states which uphold righteousness (dharma), and for this the physical sentiments that are the basis of religion should be ignored. People must remain aloof from dogmatic religious ideas. Some people perform religious observances which relate to the moon - after sighting the moon, they start their religious penance. But what will happen to those who will live on the moon itself [in future]. Rational thinking will remove the fear psychosis from the human mind - rationality will defeat fanaticism.In India, the Aryans tried to establish the Vedic religion by destroying the Austric religion. In the Buddhist period, particularly during the reign of King Binbisai of Magadh, Buddhism was imposed upon non-Buddhists. Later, the Hindus forcibly converted Buddhists and Jains to Hinduism. During the Muslim period, the Islamic rulers forcibly imposed Islam in India, Iran and Egypt. Contemporary Egypt is a mixture of Arabian civilization and Islamic religion. Countless Jews were forcibly converted to Christianity. During the British rule of India, the Christians propagated Christianity in a very psychological way, consequently thousands of Hindus became Christians. Before the British came to India, there were hardly any Christians in the country. In the Muslim period, many Hindus were converted to Islam by both psychological pressure and physical force. Besides this, many Hindus embraced Islam because they were disgusted with the defects in Hinduism. At that time, along with severe religious upheaval, there was also extreme social disparity, and as a result many people turned to Islam. Even today, some missionaries are converting people into their respective religions by taking advantage of the people's educational backwardness, superstition and poverty. The medieval crusades are also burning examples or the suppression of one religion by another.

~ Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar ~ _____________________________________
Color of Sunset

Understanding in the Heart, By the Heart

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"It is not sufficient to merely read or to write about deathlessness; it has to be understood in the heart, by the heart. As long as the call of the Great doesn't reach the innermost recess of the heart, spiritual practice remains as dead as the worship of the crude. In order to convey the call of the Great to one's heart, one's every physical and mental expression has to be directed slowly and gradually with all one's sweetness and devotion, to one's inner being. According to the extent of this introversion people will realize more and more deeply the vastness of their goal as compared to transitory nature of physical entities. They will not then seek in vain the eternal entity in the transitory physical world. Then the transitory entities will keep on gradually merging in one vast eternal Being and in this process a deep and sincere yearning for the Supreme Eternal Consciouness will awaken in them."

~ Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar ~
The Path of Bliss

Out of great struggle alone comes evolution

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"All the created objects in this cosmological order are dynamic. Nothing is stationary, all have to move, movement is compulsory. This movement alone is 'Dharma'. Different creatures have [obtained a] mind for the sake of pleasure. The undeveloped and underdeveloped creatures gradually move ahead in the path of evolution out of great struggle. Out of struggle alone dogs, monkeys and jackals attain their lives. This has to be accepted, that there is certainly struggle in animal lives. Take for example, the case of wild creatures. Now these creatures have to move about in search of food. For instance, there are tigers, deer and boars in the forest. They have to move here and there in search of food. And together with this, they have to think where they will go and how they will procure food. Thinking like this, or worrying like this, their psychic development is affected due to physical and psychic clash. Because of this, a little development is effected. After their death all these creatures attain higher bodies of more developed creatures. As for instance, you will mark there are various categories of dogs; some of them have more intellect and some have very little. This is also true in the case of human beings."

~Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar~
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Evolution

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