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The Evolutionary Process and Pain
Seven sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, commerce without morality, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle, knowledge without character, and science without humanity. A society and culture free of these sins would be a society without violence.
-Mahatma Gandhi
COSMIC PRINCIPLE In the first chapter, we discussed the evolution of Indian Iculture and tried to define and conceptualize it. In this chapter, we move on to the next question: What is it designed to accomplish? How is it positioned in the overall scheme of things? How is it approached and orchestrated? And perhaps most importantly of all, what is its future if development is essentially concerned with human needs and their fulfilment in the final analysis.
There are many different ways to perceive and define development. People have a variety of needs—to breathe, bond, eat, love, create, procreate, recreate, work, and the like—that must be satisfied if they are to function effectively in society and survive. This gives rise to a complex set of social, economic, scientific, artistic, educational, recreational,
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