Baba
Prout vs today’s global workforce
Namaskar,
As we enter into the culminating phase of the vaeshyan era, there are many issues that abound:
(a) Capitalist exploitation is becoming more & more intense;
(b) the economies of world are tied together more than ever;
(c) the ongoing use of an immigrant work-force and floating laborers;
(d) the outsourcing of work to various lands like China and so-called third-world nations etc.
For all these reasons and more today's global economy is precariously perched, and the common people are the ones suffering. Here is a Proutistic look at a few of the key issues.
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Capitalist exploitation: workers suffer
Capitalists create industry wherever they can find cheap labor and low costs to maximize their own profit. One of the repercussions of this is that capitalists force innocent and hungry workers to go where the industry is, leaving particular areas desolate and creating unrest all around.
Prout philosophy states, "Where there is no proper economic development, surplus labour develops. In fact all undeveloped economic regions suffer from surplus labour, and when the surplus labour migrates to other regions the region remains undeveloped forever." (1)
And this is what we see happening today. A few such examples are the undeveloped economies of Central America (i.e. El Salvador & Honduras) where unemployment abounds and surplus labour / workers head to the US for work. Once they arrive in the US, they are paid low wages and capitalists delight in their arrival. Worker migration is also at an all-time high throughout Asia and around the world. Such capitalists should not get scope to disrupt the whole economy and pressure workers to migrate from place to place for their daily bread.
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All in all, amongst other reasons, in capitalism big business swallows up smaller ones and things are cheap but the money is tied up in the hands of a few; so the common people cannot afford the commodities. Thus money gets centralised in one area and the gap between rich and poor is huge, and it is mounting every day.
In contrast, Prout creates an active economy with money rolling in local areas. By this way, workers need not be subject to all sorts of tortures and trials by having to move all around the globe in search of work, leaving their families behind. Rather a strong economy should be created in each and every samaj and the various samajas should have relationships characterized by coordinated cooperation. In that way, Prout is concerned with the holistic development of the entire community.
Self-sufficiency protects people & invites growth
Baba has introduced His samaj theory based on self-sufficient socio-economic units. In this system, industry gets developed where there are raw materials and an existing labour force. Where those living in an area get ample scope to work in that area, at the same time keeping an open door policy to others interested in residing in that samaj.
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Prout philosophy states, "In modern India there are two distinct areas – one of surplus labour and the other of deficit labour. That is why people usually migrate from surplus labour areas to other regions. However, the very concept of surplus labour is a relative one. Where adequate opportunities for proper economic development have not been created, there is surplus labour. Labour becomes surplus in all undeveloped socio-economic areas. When surplus labour moves to another region, the undeveloped area has every chance of remaining undeveloped forever." (2)
Prout philosophy states, "According to PROUT, wherever there is surplus labour, top priority must be given to creating employment for all local labour. This policy will raise the standard of living of the local people and the whole area. If this policy is not implemented and surplus labour is allowed to move to other regions, and the Marxist policy that, “those who sow shall reap” is followed, then all tea plantations, coal mines and other natural resources will be controlled by outside labour. Local people will lose control over their natural resources. This will create a very dangerous situation." (3)
1st priority to local workers
Prout philosophy states, "PROUT's opinion is that local people must have first priority in employment opportunities. As long as there is not full employment for local people, continuous efforts must be made until all local labour is fully employed. In addition, no fresh developmental programmes will be started until there is further demand for labour. Scandinavian countries did not commence any new development schemes for this reason." (4)
Prout philosophy states, "Where there is no proper economic development, surplus labour develops. In fact all undeveloped economic regions suffer from surplus labour, and when the surplus labour migrates to other regions the region remains undeveloped forever. In areas of surplus labour provision should be made to immediately employ the local people.”
"While providing employment to local people, local sentiments should also be taken into consideration. Maximum agro-industries and agrico-industries should be established on the basis of the socio-economic potential of the region, and various other types of industries should be established according to the collective needs. This approach will create enormous opportunities for new employment. Through such an employment policy, increasing the standard of living of the local people will be possible." (5)
Conclusion
In the Prout system raw materials are not sent out from the samaj so that other more powerful regions can profit and get rich from those resources. And secondly, in the Prout system, ample local jobs are available so workers do not have to travel thousands of miles away and live in some unknown land to earn a living. Rather the buildup of the samaj system guarantees that people will get jobs close to home, in the area in which they live. After taking all this into consideration, others may freely immigrate to another samaj so long as they have merged their socio-economic feeling and interest with that place. That is our PROUT policy.
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Hence Prout is concerned with the needs of an area and is geared towards making communities self-sufficient and the whole Prout philosophy is working in the favour of the exploited mass-- so that the common people can rise up and develop themselves.
Namaskar,
in Him,
Vidya’sagar
References
1. Some Specialities of Prout's Economic System
2. A Few Problems Solved - 2, Agrarian Revolution
3. A Few Problems Solved - 2, Agrarian Revolution
4. A Few Problems Solved - 2, Agrarian Revolution
5. Some Specialities of Prout's Economic System
== Section: Important Teaching ==
Inward journey, not external display
Here Baba condemns the use of such dogmatic malas and rosary beads etc.
Ananda Marga ideology states, "I have said it before and I say it again, that Sádhaná means fight against Avidyá. This fight is internal, not external. External or ostentatious fight will achieve nothing. In such a fight one's entire capability culminates in the acrobatics of dressing and decorating of one's exterior with málá (a rosary or string of beads for saying prayers), tilaka (a conspicuous mark between the eyebrows with sandalwood-paste or vermilion, jholá (a little sack for the rosary) and candan-chápa (or the mark of sandalwood paste on the forehead, arms and chest). Instead, spiritual aspirants have to fight against their inner, base propensities, and when they will wear the crown of victory, they will then realize that there is absolutely no difference between them and Brahma – they have become Brahma Himself." (1)
Reference
1. Subhasita Samgraha - 3, The Intuitional Science of the Vedas – 6: Avidyá
== Section: Important Teaching ==
How AMPS became divided
Prout philosophy guides us, “Human unity is purely an ideological unity, which means unity in the psychic sphere. Where there is psychic unity, physical unity will also occur. In the realm of unity, unity is always psychic – ideological unity means unity in the subtlest level of the mind. However, psychic or ideological unity may be affected if we encourage the exploitation of one group by another. So to avoid this there should not be any scope for exploitation in society. And to ensure this we have to start a new order to safeguard the interests of the exploited masses. So for a proper social synthesis what we require is a common philosophy of life; that is, ideological unity. But to check exploitation in the physical sphere requires something more than this, and this something more comprises a common constitutional system, a common penal code, and the availability of the minimum essentialities of life.” (1)
Reference
1. Prout in a Nutshell - 15, Talks on Prout
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