* [image: The Red Guards ruthlessly killed anyone they regarded as an enemy
of the regime. The picture shows prisoners killed by the riverbank after the
capture of Beijing]
*The picture shows prisoners killed by the riverbank after the capture of
Beijing. **The Red Guards ruthlessly killed anyone they regarded as an enemy
of the regime.
*
Some people, ideas and events have created havoc in human society during the
last two hundred years. This has led to suppression, repression and
oppression in social life. Let us discuss some of the different psychic
aspects of suppression, repression and oppression, the three psychic
calamities that the human beings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
have had to undergo.
During the last two centuries, capitalism and communism have caused much
suffering in human society. Communism has already died a premature death
while still in the stage of youthful vigour, but when capitalism dies it
will die a mature death. What caused the death of communism? It died due to
the reaction of the accumulated pain, suffering and tortures inflicted on
innocent people by the communist system which forced people to live
unnatural lives. Communism had to face a black death while dancing in the
ecstasy of terror and massacre.
[image: peoples_court.jpg]
*Picture: Farmers whose lands were taken away were tried by Mao's militants
in "People's Courts" and then ruthlessly killed.*
Capitalism and communism have polluted the air, water and environment in
this peace-loving world. By nature human beings are peace-loving, not
war-loving. It is capitalism and communism that have caused two world wars
and so many other sanguinary battles in the world in the recent past.
Both these systems have created suppression, repression and oppression in
the minds of the people. But while capitalism makes people slaves, communism
makes them worse than slaves. The word "slave" means "vanda'" in Persian and
"gula'm" in Arabic. In India you will find many names like Ram Gulam -- the
title "Gulam" is derived from the word for slave. You will also find the
title "pada" which means both "foot" and "rank" and refers to spiritual
ranking. Due to the suppression, repression and oppression caused by
communism, people are not turned into slaves, rather the human mind is
transformed into matter. This is because in communism human values do not
exist, so the human mind becomes inert like matter. In this state people
have no connection with the Self or soul.
Communism is a collection of contradictions. In countries where the
communists are not in government they support democracy, but in the
communist system there is no democracy, only dictatorship. Communists may
say they support democracy, but after winning power they go to any lengths,
including the adoption of undemocratic practices, to stay in power. They
advocate the commune system but the commune system has not been successful
anywhere in the world. They talk of classlessness, but practice party rule
by an elite. Communism is irrational and inhuman -- it is against the human
psyche.
Communism represents a double standard. How? Let us take an example. As per
the commune system, the ownership of the land rests with the state, but in
the Tevahaga' Movement of Bengal the communist leaders demanded that two
thirds of the produce from the crops should go to the tillers or landless
labourers, and one third to the actual owners of the land. This movement
took a dangerous form before independence in two districts of Bengal --
Faridpur and South 24 Paraganas -- when the labourers killed many innocent
land owners. After independence, the communist leaders changed their
strategy and propagandized that the ownership of the land should go to the
Bargadars or sharecroppers. In Bengal the sharecroppers had the right to
farm the land and could not be evicted, and were better off than the
landless labourers. The communists turned their backs on the landless
labourers and supported land rights for the sharecroppers, knowing full well
that in communism the ownership of the land rests with the state. See how
the communists went against their basic principles and practiced duplicity.
In communism the slogan is, "From each according to his capacity, to each
according to his necessity," but in the co-operative system the slogan is,
"Each will get according to his or her capacity." Due to this slogan, a
person will try to do more labour. People will put all their talent and
energy into a task and production will increase. In communism the leaders
themselves try to avoid labour. They prefer to sit in an office rather than
work hard, thus there is sluggish production. In the co-operative system,
people are issued shares in farming co-operatives based on the amount of
land that they farm under co-operative management. In the communist system,
this type of participation is absent, so people do not feel oneness with
their work. They are led to believe that their needs will be supplied by the
state, so they have no incentive or interest in the system.
Due to PROUT, a sympathetic vibration has started throughout the globe.
People have started thinking that they no longer need to be oppressed by the
rotten philosophy of communism. They have realised that they are not like
donkeys which carry sugar but have no right to eat it. As long as the
communist leaders had power they suppressed the people, but today the people
are rebelling against their leaders due to their education and rational
thinking. If both education and rational thinking are present, people will
definitely rebel against oppression. Even if one of these factors is there,
people will also fight against an oppressive regime.
People have already thrown out the rotten philosophy of communism and now
they are eager to fill up the gap that has been left behind. We should not
waste any more time. This vacuum should be immediately filled by PROUT.
If PROUT had not been propounded, it would have taken another thirty years
to throw out communism. The day I formulated the five fundamental principles
of PROUT, I realised that this would be the death-knell of communism.
Communism died a premature death by at least 30 years. PROUT came in 1959,
but communism collapsed in 1989. If PROUT had not come, communism would have
lasted 30 to 35 years more. Now communism has to quit the field.
In communism, the leaders want to control the people through brute force,
but in PROUT we will inspire people through selfless service. Communists do
not support selfless service, and believe that if people are given service,
then they will become satisfied and not revolt against the system. But this
belief is false. In the great Bengal famine more than five million people
died due to starvation, but nobody revolted. If you do service, if you teach
people and encourage them to develop their rationality, then they will
revolt against an inhuman system. Disorganised and irrational people are
incapable of launching a revolution.
Where there is torture of good people, the system which supports it will
surely be destroyed. There are many good people in this world who want to do
good work. You should convince them, work with them and organise them to do
maximum service for the suffering humanity.
Marx was a good man. He had strong feelings for suffering humanity, and out
of compulsion to do something he wrote his theory. However, his theory was
not practical. He did not understand the practical implications of his
theory when he propounded it. The books of Marx reflected his concern for
the downtrodden humanity and convinced many people. Leaders like Lenin and
Mao took up the task of materialising his ideas in the society. They were
not bad people, but as they tried to materialise the theory of Marx they
encountered many practical difficulties. Realising that the theory was
defective, they became frustrated and started committing many atrocities.
Stalin was a demon who killed millions of people. This all occurred because
of the inherent defects of Marxism.
Now Marxism is being eradicated from the whole world. Only in one state in
India, West Bengal, is communism still accepted. Now communism has gone
totally berserk -- a special type of madness where the beginning, middle and
end is defective. People infected with this psychic disease can do anything
-- they can kill others for any reason, and they can even kill themselves.
Even if there is something in communism -- I do not say there is, but even
if there is -- people aspire for democracy because they can not stand
communism. See the example of Czechoslovakia today. No doubt there are
defects in democracy and people realise these defects, but still they want
democracy because it is better than communism. PROUT supports democracy in a
limited sense -- we support restricted democracy -- because a better form of
government will come in the future. Certain democratic principles are best
for the time being.
In communist states, you will find the triangle of suppression, repression
and oppression in full force. Communism is based on these three defects. But
amongst these three oppression has occurred the most, repression next and
suppression the least. The people must be freed from physical suffering and
psychic ailments caused by the suppression, repression and oppression. These
three psychic catastrophes have split, shattered and destroyed the human
mind.
Suppression occurs when the mind is prevented from expanding and all its
outlets are closed, sealed and blocked. The nature of the human mind is that
it wants to expand. Even if some force does not want the mind to expand,
still the mind must try to expand. In Sam'skrta suppression is called
"pradamana".
Repression occurs whenever you are faced with trouble, whenever you want to
express your feelings, or whenever you want to be in an open atmosphere. In
Islamic countries, for example, women want to participate in sports and
games, but they are prevented. In communist countries there are many people
who want to criticize communism, but if they do they will be in trouble and
sent to concentration camps. There are also places where people want to sing
and dance freely, but if they do they will face difficulty and be punished.
In Sam'skrta repression is called "avadamana".
Repression directly affects the subconscious mind. Gradually the psychic
structure is severely damaged, and finally the mind is totally changed. The
result is that people are inflicted with a defeatist psychology and an
inferiority complex. Let me give you an example. The headmaster of a Harijan
school once asked a student to fetch him some drinking water, but the boy
did not move. Instead he asked a non-Harijan friend in a low voice to do as
the headmaster requested. But the headmaster intervened and asked the boy
why he would not comply with the request. The student replied, "Sir, I am an
untouchable by caste. How can you drink water touched by me?" This is an
example of how repression can bring about a change in the psychic structure.
This psychology has prevailed in India for a long time. A so-called low
caste man will refuse to give you a tumbler of water out of fear because the
feeling of inferiority built up over hundreds of years has been injected
into his mind. For centuries so-called low caste people have lived a life of
humiliation and insult, and consequently their minds have become inert.
Tragically, they accept this condition as the result of their fate.
Oppression occurs when you are opposed and punished for what you have done
or for what you want to do, and as a result your desire to do something
worthwhile dies forever. In Sam'skrta this is called "damana".
In the past there was much suppression, repression and oppression in India.
In ancient times the Aryans used to perform religious rituals which
necessitated enormous quantities of foodstuffs like milk, ghee, rice, etc.
These were taken from the non-Aryans who consequently suffered from
shortages of food. So the non-Aryans used to attack the Aryans while they
were performing their religious rituals to recover the stolen food. Were the
non-Aryans doing anything wrong? No. But the Aryans propagated the notion
that the non-Aryans were demons and tried to infuse inferiority complexes
into their minds.
In the mythological epic the Ramayana, Ram is the apostle of capitalism and
Aryan supremacy while Ravana represents the non-Aryans. Ram is called
"Marya'da' Pursus'ottama". What is Marya'da Purus'ottama? When Parama
Purus'a comes into the world His actions and behaviour will be just like
that of Parama Purus'a although He is in human form. This is the meaning of
Marya'da' Purus'ottama. However, Ram did not behave like Parama Purus'a --
he was not up to this standard. He killed Sudroka, a non-Aryan, when he was
performing worship, and he killed him out of a sense of Aryan supremacy. At
that time people believed that only Aryans and not non-Aryans should perform
worship, but this dogmatic view cannot be supported. Ravana, a non-Aryan, is
regarded as a demon in the Ramayana, but his behaviour indicates that he was
not demonic. When he kidnaped Sita he did not take her to his palace but
instead arranged a separate place for her with women attendants. If he had
been an evil man he would not have done this. Nevertheless, Ram killed him.
This act also indicates that Ram was not Parama Purus'a.
Human beings, universal humans, have had to undergo tremendous struggle due
to suppression, repression and oppression and the catastrophes created by
capitalism and communism. Wherever there is suppression, repression and
oppression human beings are forced to follow the path of dogma. Communism
preaches dogma, capitalism preaches dogma, and so-called religions based on
the scriptures also preach dogma. Now is the time for the emergence for the
third psychic force where there will be no more suppression, repression and
oppression. Let the mind develop according to its longings; let the mind be
free. Let there be a human society of coordination and co-operation.
This is the last stage. We are waiting for the rising sun with crimson rays.
Even now the crimson rays are a bit visible... (13 November 1989, Calcutta).
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