The main defect of hardcore capitalism is its more or less exclusive emphasis on the economic motive and financial indicators like GDP as the measure of human development. And the result is a society and culture which tends to convert every human activity, including those activities which express higher values like education, art or even spirituality, into a business with a commercial motive.
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After the financial meltdown in US many thinking minds in economics and business are beginning to recognise the limitations of traditional capitalism and trying to give a new direction to capitalistic thought and practice. This article presents a brief summary of this rethinking of capitalism.
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The previous article in this issue discusses briefly the emerging perspective on capitalism and its message for the future. The Indian social synthesis may perhaps provide a more holistic vision for restructuring capitalism. This article examines this ancient synthesis and its implications for reinventing capitalism.
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A holistic vision for incorporating higher values of the Indian synthesis into capitalism in the light of an evolutionary perspective.
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In this message, Sri Aurobindo brings out the need for political and cultural unity of India and for awakening the spiritual genius of India. The message also contains insightful observations on the true mission of aRead More…
The spiritual mind of India has to reinvent a more integral spirituality which can bring out a spiritual transformation of the entire life of human beings. A spiritual ideal has always been the characteristic idea andRead More…
India’s gift to the world is light spiritual. – Swami Vivekananda That which is Hearing of our hearing, Mind of our mind, Speech of our speech, that too is Life of our life-breath and sight ofRead More…
These eastern disciplines such as Vedanta, or Zen are not theories, philosophies psychologies or religions – rather they are primarily a set of experiments in the strictly scientific sense… To refuse to examine the results ofRead More…
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking? The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” – Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī “To take on debtRead More…
(The key to effective use of money lies in right giving and proper circulation with an intuitive understanding of the rhythms of the vital force behind it.) Homepage intro: how to use money in the rightRead More…
(On the occasion of India’s Independence day on 15th August) There is almost a consensus among modern intelligentsia that secularism, as it was conceived and practiced in the West, is the best ideology for democratic governance.Read More…
A Synopsis of Sri Aurobindo’s Major Works M.S.Srinivasan Sri Aurobindo is a versatile spiritual genius, who is not only a Master-Yogi with profound spiritual realizations, but also a great scholar and thinker who wrote extensively onRead More…
