Question: Well, you have been talking about bringing a progressive mood in the society – what is the meaning of that?
Shri Shri Thakur: Progressive mood means love and admiration to some higher Ideal – like the way admiration1
for Lord Budha made it possible for King Ashoka to build an empire
which is beyond our imagination today. We have to do all those things
which can verily bring in such progressive mood and for this to set in,
we have to start spreading all elevative ideas – much like the way,
Nietzsche, Marx or Lenin did in the past.2 On one hand we have to publish ideas which can keep this progressive mood running, at the same time we also have to discourage opposing publications and start moulding
all the schools and colleges. For this we require complimenting plays,
theatre shows, scriptural narrations, novels, bioscopes, radio
broadcasts, inspirational lectures, dramas and above all – new type of
textbooks – Elevating Literature!
Foot notes:
1 – "Why
was Plato irresistibly charmed and subjugated by this man, Socrates?
When he saw him, he understood the superiority of the Good over the
Beautiful. For the Beautiful realises the True. The sight of a really
just man caused the dazzling splendours of visible art to pale away in
Plato's Soul, then to give place to a diviner dream. This is the reason
Plato, forgetting and leaving all he had hitherto loved, gave himself
with all the poetry of his soul to Socrates in the flower of his youth. A
great victory of truth over Beauty., big with incalculable consequences
in the history of the human mind." – The Mysteries of the Elensis by Plato
"And
so I think that he last session of life, the song which rises from all
elements and all angels is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated
freedom." Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 – "Socialism
as a power in Europe may be said to begin with Marx. It is true that
before his time there were Socialist theories, both in England and in
France. It is also true that in France, during the revolution of 1848,
Socialism for a brief period acquired considerable influence in the
State. But the Socialists who preceded Marx tended to indulge in Utopian
dreams and failed to found any strong or stable political party. To
Marx, in collaboration with Engels, are due both the formulation of a
coherent body of Socialist doctrine, sufficiently true or plausible to
dominate the minds of vast numbers of men, and the formation of the
International Socialist movement, which has continued to grow in all
European countries throughout the last fifty years. " – Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russel
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15,
1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet,
composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion,
morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a
fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Karl Heinrich Marx
(5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist,
sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His
ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and
the socialist political movement. He published various books during his
lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848)
and Capital (1867–1894); some of his works were co-written with his
friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist
revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution
of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during
its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of
Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist
economic system.
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