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A daring vision of
humanity's future.
Every
system has merits and demerits. (In the present) social system the demerit is
that as life becomes easier and easier, the physical capacity of human beings
will gradually decrease. In ancient times people used to walk great distances
with bare feet, carrying only a single cloth, but today people rarely move
without footwear or proper provisions. Human strength will decrease in the
future, but with the progress of society we have no alternative but to accept
this situation. A day will come when the eyes and the bones in the human body
will become weak. Almost all people will wear glasses and have false teeth. In
the future there will also be tremendous changes in the structure of human
beings. Human intellect will become sharper, the cranium will become larger and
the nerve fibres more complex. Not only will such changes occur in human beings,
similar changes will occur in animals and plants too...
As
life becomes increasingly easy, there will be greater opportunities for
intellectual pursuits. A day will come when there will be hardly any need for
human beings to work. This may sound strange and perhaps we might not like to
hear such a thing, but that day will surely come. Physicality will be
transformed into more and more intellectuality, and intellectuality will be
transformed into the culminating point of spirituality.
This
movement to intellectuality will also take place in certain animals, such as
dogs, monkeys and cows. It may be that in 1,000 years monkeys will reach the
stage of evolution that human beings have achieved at present. At that time
human beings will be making tremendous progress in the realms of intellectuality
and intuition. The human beings of that future age will be very sensitive. The
efferent (outward conducting) nerves will be more active than the afferent
(inward conducting) nerves, and subtle experiences will be more common than they
are now. Today human beings seldom have subtle experiences, but in the future
they will occur naturally and spontaneously. The functional jurisdiction of the
brain will also increase. Similarly, many animals will become more sensitive and
their vocabulary will increase. With intellectual development vocabulary
increases... The functional jurisdiction of the brain of animals will increase
too.
With
the help of spiritual practices, humans of the future will increase the
functional jurisdiction of their brains with accelerating speed. People may
think that they cannot make rapid spiritual progress unless the size of the
brain, and hence the size of the cranium, is increased. But this is not so
because human beings can increase the jurisdiction of their thinking. Today
human beings are progressing in the realm of intellectuality. To attain the
culminating point of spirituality the human beings of today have to face less
obstacles than the people of the past. The development of the glands and the
amount of the hormone secretions is much greater than 100,000 years ago, and the
glands will develop and increase their secretions by much more in the next
100,000 years. In 100,000 years, human beings will conceive of things which are
beyond their conception today...
As
humans gradually move along the path of evolution, they will increasingly
understand that they are more psychic than physical... With psychic changes
physical changes will also occur. Humans of the future will feel strange when
they see the structure of humans of today. Similarly, the humans of today would
feel disturbed if they could see what the humans of the future will look like.
According
to human psychology, people do not like to think much about the future. Rather
they prefer to dwell on the past. The future may or may not happen as human
beings plan, so there is always a risk involved in speculating about the future.
One day the physical and psychic structure of human beings will become divine.
It may happen that human beings will not like this mundane world anymore... They
will think that it is better to merge into Supreme Consciousness and leave the
world forever. This transformation in human psychology will come about through
spiritual practices. So I advise each human being that as long as you are alive,
you should try to build yourself in a nice way, in a complete way. But you
should not only build yourselves, you should also build human society in the
same way...
The
satisfied physical needs will lessen the physical obstacles which inhibit human
progress, and human beings will experience all-round development, especially in
the intellectual stratum. They will get the opportunity to develop in the
intellectual stratum without any hindrances. The truth of humanity, the veracity
of humanity, will go on increasing in different areas of expression. That is why
I say that there must be guaranteed minimum requirements and guaranteed maximum
amenities for all human beings, and that these must go on increasing. These
amenities must be good for the physical and psychic development of human beings,
or at least for one of the two.
P.R. Sarkar (1921-1990)
founded Renaissance Universal in 1958. This essay is excerpted from the book Proutist
Economics by Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, © 1992, Ananda Marga Publications.
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