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Namah The (Missing) Human Touch

conscious creatures into robotic machines. suppressed within. The second and more
For that is the direction towards which an comprehensive solution is the incorporation
entirely analytical approach, devoid of love of human values at every level of education.
and beauty, will take us. Finally, the only real way to transmit these
deeper and higher human values is through
Besides, we tend to become identified living examples in the family as well as in
with whatever we are dealing with day and society at large. This is only possible through
night and fall in love with. It is said, a further spiritual evolution of the human
and with sufficient reason, that each race. Who will be the leaders and the pioneers
technological advance leads to some is hard to say, but even a small beginning in
kind of biological amputation. The more this direction will be much more helpful than
we advance technologically, the more a host of debates and discussions or theories
dwarfed we become in those dimensions and advices.
and aspects that are not technologically
driven. While we cannot reverse the gifts of
technological advancements despite it being
a mixed bag, what we need is to not let us
be overwhelmed by them, or lose all that is
beautiful, humane and divine in us. That is
the real danger. In trying to look after the
body through equipment and machines, are
we losing our soul?

The way forward

How to incorporate these deepest highest
human values in our education and practice
is a matter of discussion and cannot be dealt
with in a summary manner. But the urgency
is there. One possible solution suggested by The Mother reminds us:
those who recognise the problem is to enact
laws. But ethics have no real value if they are “The best example to give would be the
imposed from outside and practised out of unalloyed serenity and immutably peaceful
fear. Fear is the worst teacher and whatever happiness which belong to one who knows
we do or don’t do out of fear is short-lived how to live integrally this thought of the One
and breaks down at the first opportunity. God in all.
Even if the fear of law is strong, it doesn’t
change anything within us and hence remains “From the point of view of our present
always suspect in its impact apart from the environment, here is the idea which, it seems
fact that fear often makes a society ruthless to me, it is most useful to spread:
and aggressive, with a proclivity to violence
as a release of the anger and the anguish “True progressive evolution, an evolution

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