By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar The bondages that human beings are likely to suffer from are not purely physical – they are psychic and spiritual as well. The fundamental cause behind physical bondage lies in the psychic realm. The tortures, the exploitations, of human by human are no doubt physical phenomena, but these events have…
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The Principle of Social Equality
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar Dynamism is the essential characteristic of this world. The world is called jagat because it is always in motion.1 Just as there is individual movement, there is movement in collective life as well. This very movement requires three things: First, an inspiration – an impetus from behind. When one person…
Devotional Sentiment and Neohumanism
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar In a previous discourse, I said that human beings reach the culmination of devotion by subjective approach through objective adjustment. I also explained how devotion develops through various psychic expressions. Now we should clearly understand both the introversial aspect (the subjective approach) and the extroversial aspect (the objective adjustment). These…
The Status of Inanimation in the Philosophy of Neohumanism
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar Neohumanism includes within its scope not only human beings and animate creatures, such as plants and animals, but all inanimate entities as well, for the scope of Neohumanism extends down to the smallest particles of sub-atomic matter. What is Neohumanism? Neohumanism is newly-explained humanism. “Humanism” and “humanity” have been very…
Trifarious Expression
By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar You know, all expressions in this universe are divided into three strata – physical, psychic and spiritual – and not a single stratum among them is unimportant or negligible. For the integrated development of this world, we want all three of these strata to be properly developed, and their speed…
Sentiments
From the works of Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar Geo-sentiment grows out of love for the indigenous soil of a country. From this geo-sentiment many other sentiments emerge, such as geo-patriotism, geo-economics and geo-religion. Socio-sentiment is more expanded than geo-sentiment. It pervades a particular social group. Instead of thinking about the welfare of a particular geographical…
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Holistic Solutions
Neohumanist Review Editors Climate challenges are complex issues. For example, why do droughts occur? Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar offers:* “What are the most important causes of drought? There are three main causes. The first is the wanton destruction of plants or indiscriminate deforestation, the second is low pressure systems over oceans and big seas, and…
Letter To the Editor
Michael Towsey, Hobart, Tasmania, November 2023 Ravi Batra’s fascinating article (NHR, September 2023) on the 30-year inflation cycle suggests that the cycle can be explained by the following causal sequence: Social crisis → Government deficit spending →Increased money supply → Inflation.(Each arrow to be read as “causes”.) This sequence requires serious social crises to arise…
Enabling Transformative Learning
By Marilyn Mehlmann This article is derived partly from the book Empowerment – A Guide for Facilitators and partly from the workshops on ‘Values, Empowerment and Transformation’ held 14-15 July, 2023 at Ydrefors, Sweden. It looks briefly at the nature of transformative learning and its relation to empowerment; and at the role of the facilitator…