Discourses on PROUT

Discourses on PROUT

File:Discourses on PROUT-Cover.jpg Discourses on PROUT front cover
Author	Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Language	English
Subject	Philosophy
Publisher	Ananda Marga-Ananda Printers
Publication date	1959 (IND)
Media type	print
Pages	34
ISBN	81–7252–20–4

Discourses on PROUT is a book of 34 pp. published for the first time on October 17, 1959 in Jamalpur (India) by the philosopher and social reformer Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar aka Shrii Shrii Anandamurti (1921–1990). It contains a summary of lectures delivered by P. R. Sarkar to the first conference of Progressive Utilisation Theory (PROUT). The book was originally published as "A Discussion" and renamed "Discourses on PROUT" in the current 'edited' version.

The author begins by framing the concept of universalism in a philosophical and spiritual background, then extending his vision on the socio-economic context and giving multiple suggestions for a new organization and renewal of human society, considered by the author to be one and indivisible. At the end of the volume Sarkar advocates the advent of a "Cosmic Society", based both on a new spiritual vision and on a decentralised socio-economic structure, which guarantees the fundamental human values and social wrights.

See also

• Ananda Marga
• Ananda Marga College
• Ananda Sutram
• Law of Social Cycle
• Other Social cycle theories
• Sadvipras
• Ravi Batra - Indian-American economist, academic and author of books on PROUT and on the Law of Social Cycle.
• The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism

References

Sources

• Sarkar, Prabhat Ranjan (1959), Discourses on PROUT, Ananda Marga Publications, ISBN 81–7252–20–4 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help); Text "city:Jamalpur" ignored (help)