By Gary Coyle
The basic principles of PROUT’s economy are part of the 16 principles that encapsulate Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar’s theory of progressive utilization. The four socio-economic principles eight to eleven, following the earlier seven social principles, are followed by what Sarkar calls the five fundamental principles of PROUT. All these principles are concerned with economics.
The increase in the standard of living of the people is the indication of the vitality of society.
Meritorious people should certainly receive greater amenities compared to the level of minimum necessities allocated to people in general, and there should be never ending efforts to raise the level of minimum necessities. For example, today common people need bicycles whereas meritorious …
There should be proper adjustment amongst these physical, metaphysical, mundane, supramundane and spiritual utilizations.
Purport: While promoting individual and collective welfare there should be proper adjustment amongst the physical, mental and spiritual and the crude, subtle and causal factors. For example, society has the responsibility of meeting the minimum necessities of every individual but if society arranges food and builds …
Evolution is the acceleration of the speed of the social cycle by the application of force.
Spiritual revolutionaries (sadvipras) will initiate and establish the intellectual (vipra) age by bringing under control the warriors (ks’attriyas) as soon as the warriors degenerate into exploiters. Here the advent of the intellectual age, which should have come in natural course, …
The surplus goods and services, after distributing the minimum necessities, are to be given according to the social value of the individual’s production.
The surplus wealth, after meeting the minimum necessities of the age, will have to be distributed among talented people according to their merit. Motorcars instead of bicycles, for example, should be provided to meritorious people in recognition …
There should be maximum utilization of physical, metaphysical and spiritual potentialities of unit and collective bodies of human society.
Purport: The collective body, collective mind and collective spirit must be developed. One must not forget that collective good lies in individuals and individual good lies in collectivity. Without providing for the comfort of the individual through proper food, light, air, …
In the nucleus of the social cycle spiritual revolutionaries (sadvipras) control the cycle in order to liberate all.
Spiritual revolutionaries are those moral and spiritual aspirants who want to put an end to exploitation and vice by the application of force. They do no belong to the periphery of this cycle because they will control the social cycle positioned as …
The minimum necessities of all should be guaranteed in any particular age.
The Cosmic Entity is my father, the Cosmic Force of Creation is my mother and the three worlds are my homeland. So every thing or object of this universe is the common property of all humanity. Nothing in the universe is cent per cent equal in both quality …
There should be maximum utilization and rational distribution of all mundane, supramundane and spiritual potentialities of the universe.
Purport: The wealth and resources inherent in the crude, subtle and causal worlds should be developed for the welfare of all people. All resources hidden in the five fundamental factors – solid, liquid, luminous, aerial and ethereal – should be fully utilized …
In the flow of the social cycle, a class is always dominant.
Originally, no well-knit social system had evolved. So we may call this age the proletarian (shu’dra) era. In those days all people survived by their physical labor. Then came the era of the valiant, which we may term the warrior (ks’attriya) era. This was followed …