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The Great Shift

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
We are witnessing rapid shifts in almost every field of human activity. But the greatest shift is
happening within ourselves. We tend to consider the outer changes as the cause for the inner.
However, a careful consideration shows that it is possibly the other way round. This article
discusses some of the key aspects of this shift within and outside.

The world is undergoing a rapid shift in every them. The votaries who attribute it to the
field of life. The shift is so rapid that if a scientific advancement need to remember
person who lived in 1950 were to be suddenly that the winds of change started as a revolt to
transported into 2025, barely 75 years ago, he the existing world order and social structure
would find it impossible to believe that the built by reason, Science and industry. Its
world has taken such a leap. This leap is not general nature which involved not just
only in the field of science nor is it due to the revolutionary discoveries in science but in
unprecedented discoveries of Science alone. politics, psychology, social institutions, ways
What is now being dimly recognised is that of thought and life, art and music and poetry,
perhaps the human consciousness itself has cinema, physical culture, health indicate that
taken almost an evolutionary leap. It is this the reasons for the change are something else,
that is opening the doors to new possibilities in something deeper, something more intrinsic
every field. New ideas are emerging in every than the surface events, perhaps something
field, new discoveries are being made, new inexplicable. If we collate this with the Mother’s
ways of life are being experimented upon. statements and Sri Aurobindo’s prevision, we
Of course, there are always those who would can safely conclude that a silent spiritual
attribute it to the unprecedented scientific revolution is quietly taking place in the
and technological advancement much like human consciousness and the changes we
the chicken and egg puzzle. But leaving aside see on the surface are its results and not the
the cause for a moment, it can no longer be cause.
denied that children today, in fact since the
sixties, are different from those who preceded There are several signs that indicate this. In

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