... fail to understand his Yoga because it has no external renunciation like the orthodox paths. But the greatest difficulty is encountered by Indians in regard to his ideals of collective life and international unity. What has a Yogi to do with these things ? It is likely that his two books on the subjects of collective life, The Human Cycle and The ideal of Human Unity will appeal more easily to European... flow of events one hardly sees signs Page 63 that might encourage optimism about the ideal of human unity. The difficulties seem to be Himalayan. The highest realised unit of international unity, the U. N. 0 ., is divided into two ideological camps and cold-war is already in progress in Korea and Berlin; China is divided into two parts; Laos is the battle-ground for the two rival... establishing unity of mankind was made after the first World-War and it to ok the form of the League of Nations. Its constitution and procedure lacked all the elements necessary to bring about real international unity. It insisted on unanimity as a rule which reduced its power of effective action and as Russia and America did not, join it, it lacked the representative character also. It was an oligarchy of ...
... little clans and small regional nations of brief duration and usually of loose structure; it created only artificial empires which went to pieces and left chaos behind them. What then of this international unity now in the first obscure throes of the pre-formatory state resembling a ferment of cells drawing together for amalgamation? What is the compelling necessity behind it? If we look at outward things... things only, the necessity is much less direct and much less compelling than any that preceded it. There is here no vital necessity; mankind as a whole can get on well enough without international unity, so far as mere living goes; it will not be at all a perfect, rational or ideal collective living of the race,—but after all where is there yet any element in human life or society which is perfect... strength of the idea of nationality expressed in the novel formula of the principle of self-determination to which the great world-empires have had to pay at least a verbal homage. The idea of international unity to which this intervention of the revived force of nationality is leading, takes the form of a so-called League of Nations. Practically, however, the League of Nations under present conditions ...
... be itself final, it is only an imperfect beginning useful and necessary as a primary nucleus of that larger institution in which all the peoples of the earth can meet each other in a single international unity: the creation of a World-State is, in a movement of this kind, the one logical and inevitable ultimate outcome. This view of the future may under present circumstances be stigmatised as a... very remote and, except after a world-shaking struggle, hardly feasible. At one time it was possible to regard as an eventual possibility the extension of Socialism to all the nations; an international unity could then have been created by its innate tendencies which turned naturally towards an overcoming of the dividing force of the nation-idea with its separatism and its turn towards competitions ...
... life. That would be the most potent power that an individual can bring to bear upon this problem. An American wrote a book, "Ethics of American Foreign Policy." Somebody asked me to speak about international unity and gave me this book. So I took it as a theme. It was an association of International Fellowship in Madras. The writer advocated creating public opinion to influence the policy of the Government... opinion..." ? That will take how many years, you do not know. The parties are already organized, their programmes are formulated and they work on that basis. Government will not bring about international unity. It is the consciousness that will work. Inner factors have to be evoked into operation. Psychological powers will work, not only political and economic powers. And psychological powers become ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XIV The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity - Its Enormous Difficulties The study of the growth of the nation-unit under the pressure indeed of a growing inner need and idea but by the agency of political, economic and social forces, forms and instruments shows us a progress that ...
... trumpeted during the war, but of which an opportunist statesmanship has made short work and reduced to a deplorable nullity. A true principle of self-determination is not at all incompatible with international unity and mutual obligation, the two are rather indispensable complements, even as individual liberty in its right sense of a just and sufficient room for healthy self-development and self-determination ...
... programme he has put before the individual and the collective man is dynamic and its carrying out would require not only human but also divine Tapas. He advocates the pressing need of realising international unity and peace, which cannot be realised without active will. Harmony and beauty are, according to him, the highest attributes of the Divine. In addition to all these elements that are commonly stressed ...
... San Francisco and a not unimportant step in the movement towards the removal of the old separatism, oppositions and incompatibilities which are the undesirable side of nationalism and towards international unity and the growth of a new world and one world which is the future of humanity. We are of the opinion that if this programme is properly carried out with the approval of public opinion, it will ...
... petty egoism and intolerable obstacle to great common interests, or, it may be, to the decision of conflicts between great world-wide interests. It is probable indeed that in any constitution of international unity the great Powers would see to it that their voice was equal to their force and influence; but even if the constitution were outwardly democratic, yet in effect it would become an oligarchy of ...
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