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Baba wrote and said

  • Theory and Practice - The theory which springs out of fundamentals can be materialized with little effort. But that materialization will depend upon the effort, time and opportune moment. When theory precedes practice, however, the theory may or may not be materialized. There are four main factors which are responsible for the failure of any theory.
  • Fine Art and the Artists - As the sense of subtle aesthetics was developed in human beings in the course of evolution, a desire for the creation of art was also awakened in them. The ideal of the artist is be to established in transcendentality beyond the bounds of the sensory world. So the artists, or more precisely, the worshippers of fine art, have to be spiritual aspirants if they want to move on the right path.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism
  • Testing His knowledge of languages - Baba's knowledge of languages was by now an open secret. During field walk Baba would very often speak about various languages, taking words from several languages and explaining their origin and derivation. He used to say that Sanskrit was the richest of languages, with a vocabulary of five-hundred thousand words, followed closely by English. Amongst the Indian languages, Bengali has the largest vocabulary with one hundred and twenty-five thousand words.
  • He to whom the wind speaks - The tantra sadhana that Baba has given is an incomparable boon for the upliftment of human society, and it would be appropriate to term it as Rajadhiraja (King of Kings) Yoga Sadhana. This sadhana is based on the age-old Ashtanga Yoga, but Baba has transformed and refined its practices, making them more scientific in approach and easily acceptable to the general public.
  • Where did life come - In the book "Baba in Fiesch" on page 49 is written: "He mentioned that the Alps were the area where life first came to existence on this planet. These mountains were originally higher than the Himalayas. It was quite hot on the earth in those days and only on the top of the Alps at zero degree centigrade temperature did life begin. This is the necessary temperature for this process to start".

History

Nothing in this world is meaningless - rather everything is meaningful. Suppose a person stumbles while walking in a field ; even this is not meaningless. Another person bursts into laughter ; that also is not meaningless. Itiha'sati itiyarthe itiha'sa - "That which brings smiles,

is called history or itiha'sa." Thus amidst smiles and tears, human beings move forward. The branch of human knowledge which depicts these joyful or tearful events is called history

World news

Saturday, 3 September 2007
Music, Artists

Saturday, 11 August 2007

  • Pakistan's circular history - The story of Pakistan is one of remorseless tug and pull between the civilian and military rulers on the one hand, and the liberal and religious forces on the other.

Science

Thursday, 23 August 2007
Psychology

Tuesday, 19 December 2006

  • Martian microbes established on earth - Controversial claims have again emerged that Martian microbes could have established themselves here on Earth after hitching rides on meteorites.


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NHE Introduction

Education are those who have learned much, remembered much and made use of their learning in practical life.



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21-June-2008

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23-August-2007
Margiipedia has one new Science portal. This science portal is about the science at large. News and discoveries related what Baba wrote and said. World definitions on different expression of nature and how Baba define them and the application.


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Organisation
AMURT signed a contract with UNICEF to build 26 temporary primary schools in Yogyakarta following last May's devastating earthquake. AMURT had prepared the design and specifications for for this project which includes 4 other NGO’s who between them are building 100 temporary schools.


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The fiery lectures to inspire the masses. Throughout history millions of people have died due to artificial famines created by other human beings. While walking along a road, weary, plodding legs have given way and a person has collapsed in a pitiful heap on the ground, yet he or she has refrained from stealing. Although a high standard of morality is one reason why the person did not make a last desperate bid for self-preservation, it is not the only reason. Starving people, particularly if they lose their vitality by slow degrees, do not have the moral courage to fight. Knowing the end is sure, they seek refuge in the arms of death. Basing their way of life on incorrect philosophical and

religious teachings, they accept their miserable situation as destiny. Perhaps, at that time, if they were led by a spirited leader and inspired by his or her fiery lectures, or if they received guidance about the course of action to take, they would collectively attack the prevailing social structure. In such circumstances, their actions might perhaps be described as immoral, but they certainly would not contravene the dharma of human existence.

The renaissance movement aims for an enlightenment and a resuscitation of subtler and higher thinking in human beings. I want that every person should be guaranteed the minimum physical requirements of life, every person should get scope for the full exploitation of psychic potentiality, every person should get equal opportunity to attain absolute truth, and endowed with all 73 the glories and achievements of the world, every person should march towards the Absolute. In and through this movement human beings should be made conscious of the purpose and meaning of life.

What is death? When we fail to find a link between the preceding form and the succeeding form, then we say that the preceding form has undergone death. Suppose you return to some village where, twenty years before, you had been very fond of a boy of five years of age. No matter how much you search, you cannot find this five-year-old boy. Then you may say that the form of this boy of five died, but not that the boy died.

What is time? Time is the mental measurement of the motivity of action. Wherever there is action, there is time. The root word of “temporary” is tempus, from which also the word “time” comes.

Human civilization is not one flower, but a beautiful garden with innumerable flowers of so many scents and so many varieties.

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Spiritual

Human life is an ideological flow - Animals can move and the mental faculty is also a bit developed. Man also can move and the mental faculty is still more developed. But the difference between man and animal, the fundamental difference between man and animal, is that man (human life is an ideological flow) moves towards spirituality, and for an animal there is no spirituality – only eating, drinking, sleeping and dying. Human life is an ideological flow, and there lies the fundamental difference between man and animal.

Fasting is based on science - Our system of fasting is completely based on science. Baba told very clearly that it is purely related to Body and mind but indirectly helps in spiritual path also. It is based on the position of the Sun and other planet. In general calendar people calculate their date as per mid night to mid night but our system is "AHORATRA" system means morning to next morning.

The human search for real progress - What is progress? `Prakrsta gati ityartha pragati.' Where movement is towards Shubha it is called progress. Where movement is not associated with Shubha it is retardation. For instance, going up the hill or down are both movements, but in different directions.

Education

Gurukul

The Gurukula system of education is the oldest on our planet, tracing its roots back 10,000 years to the time of ancient civilization and dedicated to the highest ideals of all-round human development: physical, mental and spiritual.

At the Gurukula, all the aspects of one's personality are developed utilizing an integrated curriculum that empowers the student to know oneself and develop the confidence and empathy to utilize knowledge for serving the society. Gurukula encompasses intellectual cognitive abilities but extends it to include the development of intuition, aesthetics and a futuristic and ecological perspective based on universal outlook.


Prout

Language Issue - Every living being has its own inherent tendency to express and symbolise. In the evolutionary process of creation, where higher species have evolved, living beings try to express their feelings by gesture, posture or by some sound. In a general sense, this acoustic expression of ideas is called language.

Civilisation - What is civilization? The subtle sense of refinement that we come across in the different expressions of life is called civilization. Let me give you an example. Suppose some guests have arrived at our home. We may address them imperatively, "Come" or we may welcome them by saying, "Please come in."

Prout organisational structure - Proutist Universal has a global organizational structure. The world is divided into nine Sectors. Each sector has four Areas and within each area are Provinces. Within the provinces, local jurisdictions also exist.

Women Proutists/Girl Proutists - There should be coordinated, cooperative leadership between men and women.. The oppression of women in our society happens in very subtle as well as very overt ways. Women's attractiveness is used as a commodity to sell everything from cigarettes to car parts.



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