Whoever violates the principles of morality (Yama-Niyama) should not get the opportunity of representing the people. If power is given to an incompetent person, it will be equivalent to leading society astray in cold blood.

In regard to intellect, living beings may be divided into two main groups – those who want to share their wisdom, and those who do not want to. The more a group favours the sharing of wisdom, the more is their social instinct; and those who do not, their collective social mind cannot develop in the proper way due to lack of mutual understanding.

Sadvipras are those whose efforts are directed towards the attainment of Bliss. They are strong in morality and always ready to wage war against immoral activities. Those who strictly adhere to the principles of morality, are ensconced in sacrificing service (Tapah) and are ready to wage war against immoralists are Sadvipras. Only those sadvipras are safe from destruction and extinction who can work for the welfare of the human society. Therefore, it becomes the prime duty of everyone to make themselves and others Sadvipras.

Building anything on humanistic lines requires a foundation of real love and affection for humanity. A truly benevolent society will never come into being under the leadership of those who are solely concerned with profit and loss. Where love is paramount, the question of personal loss or gain does not arise. The basic ingredient for building a healthy society is simply genuine love; how then is it possible to establish such a society through coercion or legal compulsion?

The one who exploits the masses is also a person; this must never be lost sight of even for a moment. The human family is a conglomerate of different elements of the human race. Reforming and guarding against human frailties with a liberal and tolerant outlook, we have to proceed together towards the path of benevolence.

The poverty and misery of people in any country are the sins of the leaders. True leaders should always be vigilant and think how to work best for the human society; they must be ever cautious that under their guidance the people are not led to darkness, death and immorality.

Your duty is threefold. Your first duty is to observe morality and do intuitional practices. Without this you cannot have mental determination. Your next duty is to unite the moralists of the world, otherwise righteousness (dharma) will not endure. This will be your real duty. You will become great by this, for ideation of the Great makes one Great. At the third stage, you will have to mercilessly fight against sin wherever it has inhabited the world. You will have to propagate this mission from door to door.

Ours is the subjective approach and an objective adjustment – the happy blending between the objective world and subjective goal. While moving towards the subjective goal, you must maintain adjustment with the objective world. There is no other alternative. When the human society is ensconced in this supreme idea, in the very near future it will become more constructive, with proper planning. Humanity of the entire universe will unite, and we are anxiously waiting for that happy moment.

To satisfy their hunger, the haves mis-utilise their physical and intellectual wealth and force the have-nots to become slaves and sinners to try to appease their own hunger. In the background there is a big exploiter; in the front, his agents are half-naked children. This is the cause of the downfall of society.

Society needs an impetus for life, vigour and progress and for this Ananda Marga advocates the “Progressive Utilisation Theory” (PROUT) which calls for progressive utilisation of all factors of the universe. Those who support these principles may be called Proutists.

Let everyone enjoy as much as they like on the subtle mental plane. Let everyone possess as much mental and spiritual wealth as possible. But individual hoarding of mundane resources and wealth must be stopped, even by force if necessary. In reality both physical and mental cravings are born of mental hunger. It is certainly possible to transform the craving for physical enjoyment into intellectual hunger by channeling it towards a different goal through proper education. Human society today is badly in need of such education.

In our Marga (our way, or path)
humanity as a whole is considered as one family
belonging to the race of human race.

In such a society,
injustice due either to economic background,
sex or racial considerations will be unknown.

Those who are at the helm of society are absorbed in strife and suspicion, or in reckoning their loss and profit. They have no desire to think of humanity. There is no room for mercy, sympathy or fellow-feeling. All are self-centred.

At present the worth of life is ascertained with an eye to money.
One who possesses wealth commands respect and passes for a noble person.

Nowadays if you have no money you cannot expect to get honour.
The poor people belonging to all other classes have to woo the moneyed people
just for the sake of earning a livelihood.

Human values are taboo here.
Human beings are now but a medium of earning money.

There should be one universal legal and criminal code for the universal humanity.
It is not at all desirable that there be different laws for different people,
different countries, different communities.

All laugh in happiness, cry in sorrow, beat their breasts in mourning.
Why must we separate human from human
with a thousand and one imaginary distinctions?