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===Toward wholeness===
by [[Author::Benedictus Montecrossa]]

If the yoga of an individual being is a systematic integration of all his parts into a whole personality, then the systematic integration of all members of a society into a single living being must be the yoga of community, a yoga of awareness, of becoming conscious as a group. No extraordinary preparation or means are necessary for this yoga. The simple recognition of the society as a living being is the beginning and is sufficient to guide us.

But life in a community does not mean that everybody must have the same conceptions, the same philosophy, or even worship the same gods. God forbid! The more spiritualized man becomes, the less he will try to impose his own ideas on others, the more different he will be from others, the more he will appreciate individuality in others and discover himself in them. The more truly individual man becomes, the richer the society.

The whole splendour of man has always been a synthesis, the integration of the great individual in a great society. But if in the past such a society could be a single city or a single nation, the great society of the future can be only the whole of mankind, as an echo chamber for the voice for its great men.

However, the society =1 cannot be limited to man. It must be as thoroughly dedicated to the harmony of all planetary life, of its plants and its animals, as it is to the harmony of the nations. A philosophy which respected human life only would not be a true philosophy, which is a knowledge of love and a love of knowledge. All the saints, yogis and ashrams of the past were famous as protectors and friends of [[animals]].

As we have suggested in our editorial, the society =1 is destined to become the whole biosphere, the whole earth and finally the whole universe.

The systematic integration of all beings into a society is a problem of systems management. A rocket can be built only if, from the very beginning, all the parts which will be needed are integrated into the rocket's system. So also the into the organism of a total socialization, every child born, every natural resource, all technological progress has to be systematically built, not by cutting the parts to the necessary size but by utilizing each part according to its individuality.

Integration, socialization together with individualization are purely evolutionary problems, and we need only wait half a million or so years for the next step in human evolution to be accomplished. But will we be allowed this half million years, or will nature become impatient? Or will we become impatient? Perhaps we want to live now in this ideal society, this society of the future? If so, we shall have to accelerate evolution.

Luckily for us nature has been for thousands of years preparing this next step. Even the ancestors of our ancestors longed to live in such an ideal society. All the religions of man, all his works of art, whatever he has created in his cultural endeavours are born of this longing, this aspiration to be able to enjoy living together.

Sometimes man succeeded for one or two generations in creating a golden age, a society which suggested perfection. But it was always on a small scale, restricted to a class or a few families, and therefore evanescent. There were too many forces working against man, surrounded as he was and is by social formations which favour his most aggressive and ferocious elements. But again and again the great programmers of mankind, concerned about the race as a whole, have said: “Know yourself,” and “Love your neighbour”. They have been taken for idealists, of course, but the counsel they gave is the only practical course to follow if man is to become ''by choice'' a social being.

Our ancestors at best contented themselves with a little goodwill, and that represented a gigantic step. Or they were satisfied with external forms of politeness, gratifying but insufficient. Consequently they tried to impose rules and regulations more and more severe, institutionalized restraint, and arranged for punitive measures. With such iron rules, the golden rule the programmers had given about the Kingdom of God, about the earthly paradise, the city of love, was more and more disregarded. Yet the programming, the only effective rule for building that society of the future, is still: “Know yourself,” or in other words: “Love your neighbour as your beloved self”.

If this rule had to be followed perfectly and integrally from the moment of the society's founding, there would be no society. But let us remember that this is an evolving feed-back and not a moral commandment. Neither love nor knowledge can be commanded, only grown into, and the opportunity to grow into it is offered to us. In order that this society may become a reality, each one of us has to undergo, to submit to a psychic mutation. It is in the process of this mutation that we shall discover the secret of “Know yourself,” and “Love your neighbour,” and the secret of why they are inseparable or indivisible statements. We shall become really ourselves and at the same time all others. Because in the final analysis, if there is one being on earth which is not a part of the society =1 we have not yet found a truly planetary civilization and so our society will perish, since it has not fulfilled man's destiny: to become whole, and be himself.

==See also==
*[[=1 "The voice"]]

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