You may ask, "what is it that you want to do? If You Don't Want Us To Join Any Society Or Accept Certain Theories, What Is it Then That You Want To Do?" What I Want To Do Is to Help You, The Individual, To Cross The Stream of Suffering, Confusion And Conflict, Through Deep And Complete Fulfillment. This Fulfillment Does Not Come Through Egotistic Self Expression, Nor Through Compulsion and Imitation. Not Through Some Fantastic Sentiment and Conclusions, But Through Clear Thinking, Through Intelligent Action, We Shall Cross This Stream Of Pain And Sorrow.
There Is a Reality Which Can Be Understood Only Through Deep And True Fulfillment. Before We Can Understand The Richness and The Beauty OF Fulfillment, Mind Must Free Itself From The Background Of Tradition, Habit, and Prejudice. For Example, If You Belong To a Particular Political Party, You Naturally Regard All Your Political Considerations From The Narrow, Limited Point Of View Of That Party. If you have been brought up, nursed, conditioned in a certain religion, you look at life through its veil of prejudice and darkness.
That Background Of Tradition Prevents The Complete Understanding Of Life, And So Causes Confusion And Suffering. I Would Beg of You To Listen To What I Have To Say, Freeing Yourself For This Hour At Least From The Background In Which You Have Been Brought up, with its traditions and prejudices, and think simply and directly the many human problems. To be truly cirtical is not to be in opposition. Most of us have been trained to oppose and not to criticize.
When a Man Merely Opposes, It Generally Indicates That He Has Some Vested Interest Which He Desires To Protect, and That Is Not Deep Penetration Through Critical Examination. True Criticism Lies In Trying To Understand The Full Significance Of Values Without The Hindrance Of Defensive Reactions. We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation. We Have Class Distinction And Racial Hatred, The Stupidity Of Nationalism And The Appalling Cruelty Of War.
There Is Exploitation Of Man By Man. Religions With Their Vested Interests Have Become The Means Of Exploitation, Also Dividing Man From Man. There is anxienty, confusion, hopelessness, frustration. We See All This, It Is Part Of Our Daily Life. Caught Up in The Wheel Of Suffering, If You Are At all Thoughtful You Must Have Asked Yourself How These Human Problems Can Be Solved. Either YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OF THE CHAOTIC State Of The World Or You Are COMPLETELY ASLEEP, LIVING IN A FANTASTIC WORLD, IN AN ILLUSION.
Please understand that I am talking to you as an individual, not to a collective group or to a particular party. So the question is? How Can There Be This Profound Individual Revolution? Is there is this true, voluntary revolution on the part of the individual, then you will create the right environment for all, without the distinction of class or race. Then The World Will Be a Single Human Unit. All following is detrimental to completeness. To Have This Profound Revolution.
You Must Become Fully Conscious Of The Structure Which You Have Created About Yourself And In Which You Are Now Caught. That is, we have now certain values, ideals, beliefes, which act as a net to hold the mind, and by questioning and understanding all their significance, we shall realize how they have come into existence. Before you can act fully and truly you must know the prison in which you are living, how it has been created and in examining it without any self-defense You Will Find Out For Yourself Its True Singnificance, Which No Other Can Convery To You.
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