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INTROSPECTION AND CLARIFICATIONS
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Question: In the new Economics, what is the place for population control?
Answer: In my view, if man is not starving and poor, population will not increase. Poverty has a close correlation with demographic growth. Population increases as poverty increases. The day starvation is prevented and proper nutritious food is available to the people, the rate of population growth would go down. Malnutrition and population growth are closely related. Anybody can verify this. An average common man does not have as many children as a poor person.
Question: When will the sixth kalkhand' (time block) come? Can the conditions likely to arise during this period of time be averted?
Answer: For the sixth time block to come, there are several years to go. It is possible that, if industrialisation continues unabated and the hole in the zone umbrella expands beyond limits, the kalkhand' due thousands of years from now may arrive much sooner. It is very difficult then to avoid future hardships and the kalkhand. Even today the number of people who think about realities is very few, and the number of people who think about comforts and luxuries is very large. We have often heard that people have died due to drinking alcohol, what is there to worry? After all we have to die one day. Man's attitudes have become somewhat like this today. In a situation like this. what forecast can be made?
Question: What should be done to bring about change in mental attitudes? What is the best way for that?
Answer: If the method of training of the mind is linked with education, then substantial transformation can be expected. In other words, if change is to be brought about from inside, if mental transformation is to be achieved, the work will have to be started from education itself.
Question: What is the Principle of Vibration? There is very little knowledge about it. Is this scientific phenomenon a product of the Indian philosophy?
Answer: Vibration is one total principle. There is, however, not much knowledge about it because today's science is merely
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