Discourses on PROUT
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| File:Discourses on PROUT-Cover.jpg The front cover of "Discourses on PROUT" | |
| Author | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Philosophy |
| Publisher | Ananda Marga Publications |
Publication date | 1959 (IND)[1] [2] |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 34 |
| ISBN | 81–7252–20–4 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Discourses on PROUT is a book of 34 pages published for the first time on October 17, 1959 in Jamalpur (India) by the philosopher and social reformer Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar[note 1] aka Shrii Shrii Anandamurti (1921–1990).[note 2] It's a part of the social writings of Sarkar and contains a summary of lectures delivered by the author 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[3] 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
Footnotes
- ^ Giani Zail Singh, seventh president of India has said about Sarkar: "Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was one of the greatest modern philosophers of India. (Inayatullah, 2002).
- ^ Between 1955 and 1990 the author wrote in English, Bengali and Hindi. He wrote in the name "Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar" when treating sociology, economics, philology and various other subjects, and in the name ""Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti"" when focusing on spiritual topics. Many of his books he gave as dictations; others were compiled from his discourses, some of them in small pocket-books.
Citations
- ^ "Discourses on PROUT" cover page as it appears on the publisher's web site, Ananda Marga Publications, 2012, retrieved 24 December 2012
- ^ http://shop.anandamarga.org/books/sarkar/prout.htm
- ^ Sarkar 1959, p. 3.
Sources
- Sarkar, Prabhat Ranjan (1959), Discourses on PROUT, Ananda Marga Publications, ISBN 81–7252–20–4
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