... The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity The gathering of the essential powers of administration into the hands of the sovereign is completed when there is unity and uniformity of judicial administration,—especially of the criminal side; for this is intimately connected with the maintenance of order and internal peace. And it is, besides, necessary for the ruler to... administering the civil law and the right to modify the laws relating to property, marriage and other social matters which concern the public order of society, comprise its civil side. But the unity and uniformity of the civil law is of less pressing and immediate importance to the State when it is substituting itself for the natural organic society; it is not so directly essential as an instrument. Therefore... judicial administration and neither possessed nor felt any need of a uniformity of jurisdiction or of a centralised unity in the source of judicial authority. But as the State idea develops, this unity and uniformity must arrive. It accomplishes itself at first by the gathering up of all these various jurisdictions with the king as at once the source of their sanctions and a high court of appeal and the ...
... most nearly concerns the particular need of the centre of order which has been called into existence, its political and military function. It aims first at a sufficient and then at an absolute unity and uniformity of administration. The monarchies which the need of concentration called into being, drove first at a preliminary concentration, a gathering of the main threads of administration into the... short work of this aristocracy and swept away the relics of the ancient system. In establishing a rigorous uniformity it did not reverse but rather completed the work of the monarchy. An entire unity and uniformity legislative, fiscal, economic, judicial, social was the goal towards which French absolutism, monarchical or democratic, was committed by its original impulse. The rule of the Jacobins and the ...
... Motion went a long way towards it - holding together the smallest particles and the hugest heavenly bodies within the terms of the same mathematical equations. And this sense and discernment of unity and uniformity in the physical universe - this reduction of that universe to a harmonious seizability by the thinking mind which looks Page 120 always for simple fundamental all-integrating ...
... The Drive towards Economic Centralisation The objective organisation of a national unity is not yet complete when it has arrived at the possession of a single central authority and the unity and uniformity of its political, military and strictly administrative functions. There is another side of its organic life, the legislative and its corollary, the judicial function, which is equally important; ...
... observed, without consideration for passing caprices. Unity does not entail uniformity; the latter is nothing but a deformation and a caricature of the former. It is the confusion between unity and uniformity which is so harmful in political ideologies. It may be argued that the guidance of the soul we recognize is nothing more than the "voice of conscience", the moral sense of right and wrong ...
... outlook in recent times. A very fundamental principle – the very postulate on which the whole edifice of physical Science has been built up – is now being called in question. We thought that the unity and uniformity of Nature is a cardinal fact and nothing can shake it. Well, it appears that solid basis too has proved to be no more than an eidolon. The search for a universal principle of Nature is ...
... Egoistic fissiparousness was never to be encouraged ; the quest for the organised whole, for the collective existence, was deemed indispen sable. But what was envisage d in the quest was a unity without uniformity, a concord without monotony and always the movement was towards the inner as the foundation of the outer. Here an important point must be made explicit. Mother India has striven ...
... demanding anything from others, each one should first strive to eliminate them from himself. 4.7.1969 Peace through human unity : Unity through uniformity is an absurdity. Unity must be realised through the union of the many. Each one is part of the unity; each one is indispensable to the whole. Oct, 1969 Page 42 You must all agree. That is the only way... 41 Unity, Harmony, Collaboration Any sincere attempt to bring peace and unity among men is welcome in Auroville. 30.7.1968* * Q: How can people having different values live and work together in harmony? The solution is to go deep within oneself and find the place where all the differences combine to constitute the essential and eternal Unity. 4.5 ...
... existence." Unity, not uniformity, is the law of life "Absolute uniformity would mean the cessation of life, while on the other hand, the vigour of the pulse of life may be measured by the richness of the diversities which it creates. At the same time, while diversity is essential for power and fruitfulness of life, unity is necessary for its order, arrangement and stability. Unity we must create... create, but not necessarily uniformity. If man could realise a perfect spiritual unity, no sort of uniformity would be necessary; for the utmost play of diversity would be securely possible on that foundation. If again he could realise a secure, clear, firmly- Page 36 held unity in the principle, a rich, even an unlimited diversity in its application might be possible without any fear of... the life-soul in the individual, it tends to exaggerate the egoism of the mental and vital being and prevent the recognition of unity with others on which alone a complete self-development and a harmless freedom can he founded. Collectivism at least insists upon that unity by entirely subordinating the life of the isolated ego to the life of the greater group-ego, and its office may be thus to stamp ...
... centralisation and uniformity brought about the smallness and feebleness of the individual; mechanisation prevailed, and the Empire lost even its great conservative vitality and died of an increasing stagnation. From this example, we can conclude as to what is likely to happen if the push towards unity which has become prominent comes to be sustained only on the basis of uniformity, centralisation... is the inner breath of the world. This is the reason why when we are considering the question of the solution of the problem of the universal solidarity or of human unity, we have suggested that if unity must not degenerate into uniformity, the only way is to emphasise the need for a spiritual change, a change which does not run away from the world, but a change that transforms the world with the power... Its necessity is still being conceived in terms of the drive towards economic centralisation, legislative and social uniformity and towards mechanisation even in matters of human management and control of human affairs. It is still not being recognised that the social and political unity of humankind is not necessarily propitious, and its necessity lies in the fact that humanity can fulfil its higher ...
... word "unity." 1 May I know, Sweet Mother, why this change was made? 1 "O India, land of light and spiritual knowledge! Wake up to your true mission in the world, show the way to union and harmony." — Message for the inauguration of All India Radio, Pondicherry, 23 September 1967. Page 22 Because most people, when they hear the word "unity", understand uniformity and ...
... want to know the joy and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions. 18 September 1969 Peace through human unity: Unity through uniformity is an absurdity. Unity must be realised through the union of the many. Each one is part of the unity; each one is indispensable to the whole. October 1969 Page 202 Will a day come when there will be no more poor... those who want to hasten towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity. 16 March 1967 Conditions for living in Auroville From the psychological point of view, the required conditions are: (1) To be convinced of the essential unity of mankind and to have the will to collaborate for the material realisation of that unity; (2) To have the will to collaborate in all that furthers future... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. 8 September 1965 1) Who has taken the initiative for the construction of Auroville? The Supreme Lord. 2) Who participates in the financing of Auroville? The Supreme Lord. ...
... divinise the physical body. 20 September 1967 In the message for the radio You substituted the word "union" for the word "unity". 5 May I know, Sweet Mother, why this change was made? Because most people, when they hear the word "unity", understand uniformity and nothing can be further from the truth. 25 September 1967 Page 368 Does spontaneity come spontaneously ...
... reaction of her gradual advance. The crushing domination of Roman uniformity was a device, not to kill out permanently, but to discourage in their excessive separative vitality the old smaller units, so that when they revived again they might not present an insuperable obstacle to the growth of a true national unity. What the mere nation-unity may lose by not passing through this cruel discipline,—we leave... and art the mediaeval tendency to intellectual uniformity, stagnation and obscuration. The old clan-nation perished, except in countries like Ireland and Northern and Western Scotland which had not undergone the Roman pressure, and there it was as fatal to unification as the city state in Italy; it prevented Ireland from evolving an organised unity and the Highland Celts from amalgamating with the... progressed through a long balancing of centripetal and centrifugal tendencies in which the feudal system provided a principle of order and of a loose but still organic unity. The second was a movement of unification and increasing uniformity in which certain features of the ancient imperial system of Rome were repeated, but with a less crushing force and exhausting tendency. It was marked first by the creation ...
... al sense of social development, and again in this question of a particular people's life and culture in all its parts and manifestations. I have insisted that uniformity is not a real but a dead unity: uniformity kills life while real unity, if well founded, becomes vigorous and fruitful by a rich energy of variation. But the writer adds that the idea of taking over what is best in occidental civilisation... which still in some directions continues,—to imitate European civilisation and to make ourselves a sort of brown Englishmen, to throw our ancient culture into the dust-bin and put on the livery or uniform of the West was a mistaken and illegitimate endeavour, I heartily agree. At the same time a certain amount of imitation, a great amount even, was, one might almost say, a biological necessity, at any... n, a making the thing settle into oneself and turn into characteristic form of our self-being. The impossibility of entire rejection arises from the very fact of our being a term of diversity in a unity, not really separate from all other existence, but in relation with all that surrounds us, because in life this relation expresses itself very largely by a process of interchange. The undesirability ...
... Japanese art teaches 'the unity of art with life'. 1916-1917 Stays for a year in Tokyo with Dr. Okhawa Shumei, a Zen practitioner and an active sympathiser with the Indian freedom movement. Shumei: 'We sat together in meditation every night for an hour.' Gives the talk 'To the Women of Japan'. Meets one of Tolstoy's sons, then on a tour to promote world unity through uniformity of dress, language... remodel society - to make it 'fit to contain' a perfect humanity. - Nov 2 First entry in the published Prayers and Meditations'. '...I have now a constant and precise perception of the universal unity determining an absolute interdependence of all actions.' - Nov 7 Meets Sufi mystic and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan. He tells her that for the sufis there is 'a state higher than that of adoration... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.' -Sep 16 Declares, during the Indo-Pakistan war, 'It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because ...
... persons, that we should not dogmatize, lest we eliminate everything, finally leaving nothing but a Cartesian God, one and universal by virtue only of his narrowness. Perhaps we still confuse unity with uniformity. It was in the spirit of that tradition that Sri Aurobindo was soon to write: The perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each man is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the... struggling with life becomes either an empiric or a doctrinaire. 210 It seizes upon a bit of truth, one drop of divine illumination, and makes it a universal law; it constantly confuses unity with uniformity. Even when it is capable of understanding the need for diversity, it is practically incapable of implementing it, because it only knows how to deal with what is invariable and finite, while... narrow range of its visual field; it is unsealed, seeing in a single glance large extensions of space and time. 34 The essential difference with other planes lies in the evenness, the almost complete uniformity of the light. In a particularly receptive illumined mind one would see, for example, a bluish background with sudden jets of light, intuitive flashes, or moving luminous eruptions, sometimes even ...
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