Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
Suppression, Repression and Oppression
by Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Some
people, ideas and events have created havoc in human society during the last
two hundred years. This has led to suppression, repression and oppression in
social life. Let us discuss some of the different psychic aspects of
suppression, repression and oppression, the three psychic calamities that the
human beings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have had to undergo.
During the last two centuries, capitalism
and communism have caused much suffering in human society. Communism has
already died a premature death while still in the stage of youthful vigour, but
when capitalism dies it will die a mature death. What caused the death of
communism? It died due to the reaction of the accumulated pain, suffering and
tortures inflicted on innocent people by the communist system which forced
people to live unnatural lives. Communism had to face a black death while
dancing in the ecstasy of terror and massacre.
Capitalism and communism have polluted the air, water
and environment in this peace-loving world. By nature human beings are
peace-loving, not war-loving. It is capitalism and communism that have caused
two world wars and so many other sanguinary battles in the world in the recent
past.
Both these systems have created
suppression, repression and oppression in the minds of the people. But while
capitalism makes people slaves, communism makes them worse than slaves. The
word "slave" means "vanda'" in Persian and
"gula'm" in Arabic. In Indiayou will find many names like
Ram Gulam -- the title "Gulam" is derived from the word for slave.
You will also find the title "pada" which means both "foot"
and "rank" and refers to spiritual ranking. Due to the suppression,
repression and oppression caused by communism, people are not turned into
slaves, rather the human mind is transformed into matter. This is because in
communism human values do not exist, so the human mind becomes inert like
matter. In this state people have no connection with the Self or soul.
Communism is a collection of contradictions. In
countries where the communists are not in government they support democracy,
but in the communist system there is no democracy, only dictatorship.
Communists may say they support democracy, but after winning power they go to
any lengths, including the adoption of undemocratic practices, to stay in
power. They advocate the commune system but the commune system has not been
successful anywhere in the world. They talk of classlessness, but practice
party rule by an elite. Communism is irrational and inhuman -- it is against
the human psyche
Communism represents a double standard.
How? Let us take an example. As per the commune system, the ownership of the
land rests with the state, but in the Tevahaga' Movement of Bengal the
communist leaders demanded that two thirds of the produce from the crops should
go to the tillers or landless labourers, and one third to the actual owners of
the land. This movement took a dangerous form before independence in two
districts of Bengal-- Faridpur and South 24
Paraganas -- when the labourers killed many innocent land owners. After
independence, the communist leaders changed their strategy and propagandized
that the ownership of the land should go to the Bargadars or sharecroppers. In Bengalthe sharecroppers had the right to farm the land
and could not be evicted, and were better off than the landless labourers. The
communists turned their backs on the landless labourers and supported land
rights for the sharecroppers, knowing full well that in communism the ownership
of the land rests with the state. See how the communists went against their
basic principles and practiced duplicity.
In
communism the slogan is, "From each according to his capacity, to each
according to his necessity," but in the co-operative system the slogan is,
"Each will get according to his or her capacity." Due to this slogan,
a person will try to do more labour. People will put all their talent and
energy into a task and production will increase. In communism the leaders
themselves try to avoid labour. They prefer to sit in an office rather than
work hard, thus there is sluggish production. In the co-operative system,
people are issued shares in farming co-operatives based on the amount of land
that they farm under co-operative management. In the communist system, this
type of participation is absent, so people do not feel oneness with their work.
They are led to believe that their needs will be supplied by the state, so they
have no incentive or interest in the system.
Due to PROUT, a sympathetic vibration has
started throughout the globe. People have started thinking that they no longer
need to be oppressed by the rotten philosophy of communism. They have realised
that they are not like donkeys which carry sugar but have no right to eat it.
As long as the communist leaders had power they suppressed the people, but
today the people are rebelling against their leaders due to their education and
rational thinking. If both education and rational thinking are present, people
will definitely rebel against oppression. Even if one of these factors is
there, people will also fight against an oppressive regime.
People
have already thrown out the rotten philosophy of communism and now they are
eager to fill up the gap that has been left behind. We should not waste any
more time. This vacuum should be immediately filled by PROUT.
If
PROUT had not been propounded, it would have taken another thirty years to
throw out communism. The day I formulated the five fundamental principles of
PROUT, I realised that this would be the death-knell of communism. Communism
died a premature death by at least 30 years.
PROUT came in 1959, but communism collapsed
in 1989. If PROUT had not come, communism would have lasted 30 to 35 years
more. Now communism has to quit the field.
In communism, the leaders want to control the people
through brute force, but in PROUT we will inspire people through selfless
service. Communists do not support selfless service, and believe that if people
are given service, then they will become satisfied and not revolt against the
system. But this belief is false. In the great Bengalfamine more than five million people died due to starvation, but nobody
revolted. If you do service, if you teach people and encourage them to develop
their rationality, then they will revolt against an inhuman system.
Disorganised and irrational people are incapable of launching a revolution.
Where there is torture of good people, the
system which supports it will surely be destroyed. There are many good people
in this world who want to do good work. You should convince them, work with
them and organise them to do maximum service for the suffering humanity.
Marx was a good man. He had strong feelings
for suffering humanity, and out of compulsion to do something he wrote his
theory. However, his theory was not practical. He did not understand the
practical implications of his theory when he propounded it. The books of Marx
reflected his concern for the downtrodden humanity and convinced many people.
Leaders like Lenin and Mao took up the task of materialising his ideas in the
society. They were not bad people, but as they tried to materialise the theory
of Marx they encountered many practical difficulties. Realising that the theory
was defective, they became frustrated and started committing many atrocities.
Stalin was a demon who killed millions of people. This all occurred because of
the inherent defects of Marxism.
Now Marxism is being eradicated from the
whole world. Only in one state in India,
West Bengal, is communism still accepted. Now
communism has gone totally berserk -- a special type of madness where the
beginning, middle and end is defective. People infected with this psychic
disease can do anything -- they can kill others for any reason, and they can
even kill themselves.
Even if there is something in communism --
I do not say there is, but even if there is -- people aspire for democracy
because they can not stand communism. See the example of Czechoslovakiatoday. No doubt there are defects in democracy and people realise these
defects, but still they want democracy because it is better than communism.
PROUT supports democracy in a limited sense -- we support restricted democracy
-- because a better form of government will come in the future. Certain
democratic principles are best for the time being.
In communist states, you will find the triangle of
suppression, repression and oppression in full force. Communism is based on
these three defects. But
amongst these three oppression has occurred
the most, repression next and suppression the least. The people must be freed
from physical suffering and psychic ailments caused by the suppression,
repression and oppression. These three psychic catastrophes have split,
shattered and destroyed the human mind.
Suppression occurs when the mind is
prevented from expanding and all its outlets are closed, sealed and blocked.
The nature of the human mind is that it wants to expand. Even if some force does
not want the mind to expand, still the mind must try to expand.
Repression occurs whenever you are faced
with trouble, whenever you want to express your feelings, or whenever you want
to be in an open atmosphere. In Islamic countries, for example, women want to
participate in sports and games, but they are prevented. In communist countries
there are many people who want to criticize communism, but if they do they will
be in trouble and sent to concentration camps. There are also places where
people want to sing and dance freely, but if they do they will face difficulty
and be punished.
Repression directly affects the
subconscious mind. Gradually the psychic structure is severely damaged, and
finally the mind is totally changed. The result is that people are inflicted
with a defeatist psychology and an inferiority complex. Let me give you an
example. The headmaster of a Harijan school once asked a student to fetch him
some drinking water, but the boy did not move. Instead he asked a non-Harijan
friend in a low voice to do as the headmaster requested. But the headmaster
intervened and asked the boy why he would not comply with the request. The
student replied, "Sir, I am an untouchable by caste. How can you drink
water touched by me?" This is an example of how repression can bring about
a change in the psychic structure.
This psychology has prevailed in Indiafor a
long time. A so-called low caste man will refuse to give you a tumbler of water
out of fear because the feeling of inferiority built up over hundreds of years
has been injected into his mind. For centuries so-called low caste people have
lived a life of humiliation and insult, and consequently their minds have
become inert. Tragically, they accept this condition as the result of their
fate.
Oppression occurs when you are opposed and
punished for what you have done or for what you want to do, and as a result
your desire to do something worthwhile dies forever.
In the past there was much suppression,
repression and oppression in India.
In ancient times the Aryans used to perform religious rituals which
necessitated enormous quantities of foodstuffs like milk, ghee, rice, etc.
These were taken from the non-Aryans who consequently suffered from shortages
of food. So the non-Aryans used to attack the Aryans while they were performing
their religious rituals to recover the stolen food. Were the non-Aryans doing
anything wrong? No. But the Aryans propagated the notion that the non-Aryans
were demons and tried to infuse inferiority complexes into their minds.
In the mythological epic the Ramayana, Ram
is the apostle of capitalism and Aryan supremacy while Ravana represents the
non-Aryans. Ram is called "Marya'da' Pursus'ottama". What is Marya'da
Purus'ottama? When Parama Purus'a comes into the world His actions and
behaviour will be just like that of Parama Purus'a although He is in human
form. This is the meaning of Marya'da' Purus'ottama. However, Ram did not
behave like Parama Purus'a -- he was not up to this standard. He killed
Sudroka, a non-Aryan, when he was performing worship, and he killed him out of
a sense of Aryan supremacy. At that time people believed that only Aryans and
not non-Aryans should perform worship, but this dogmatic view cannot be
supported. Ravana, a non-Aryan, is regarded as a demon in the Ramayana, but his
behaviour indicates that he was not demonic. When he kidnaped Sita he did not
take her to his palace but instead arranged a separate place for her with women
attendants. If he had been an evil man he would not have done this. Nevertheless,
Ram killed him. This act also indicates that Ram was not Parama Purus'a.
Human beings, universal humans, have had to
undergo tremendous struggle due to suppression, repression and oppression and
the catastrophes created by capitalism and communism. Wherever there is
suppression, repression and oppression human beings are forced to follow the
path of dogma. Communism preaches dogma, capitalism preaches dogma, and
so-called religions based on the scriptures also preach dogma. Now is the time
for the emergence for the third psychic force where there will be no more
suppression, repression and oppression. Let the mind develop according to its
longings; let the mind be free. Let there be a human society of coordination
and co-operation.
This is the last stage. We are waiting for the rising sun with crimson rays. Even now the crimson rays are a bit visible. These crimson rays are the rays of PROUT.
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