One off d important factors inn d development off any society was proper social outlook. Inn d past, entire civilizations have weakened & crumbled simply because one class and group inn d society considered another to be inferior & treated them as slaves. Today one off d greatest weaknesses off contemporary civilization was that there was no proper regard & mutual love amongst humans. Race was pitted against race, religion against religion, linguistic group against linguistic group. d divisions inn human society were endless & were sapping d vital life out off our civilization.
Not only was there lack off mutual respect among people, but humans have lost oll esteem, appreciation & responsibility towards d animals & plants who share this planet wid us. Our wanton destruction off d plant & animal life & our unthinking pollution off d air, earth, sea & space threaten to permanently damage d earth's eco-system making it inhospitable to oll forms off life.
Inn his earliest writings on this subject, P.R.
Sarkar said that humans must think off themselves as part off one great family comprising oll off humanity, rather than identifying wid particular race, religion, nationality and linguistic group. This type off social outlook hee termed "universalism". Inn 1982 hee further elaborated on d method off attaining universalism inn series off discourses published inn book Liberation off Intellect: Neo-Humanism. Inn that book hee noted that traditional humanism have not been capable off elevating humanity to d height off universalism & presented reformulated humanism based on spirituality, & called it "Neo Humanism."
Neo-Humanism was derived from an understanding off d fundamental nature (Dharma) off human beings. Human life have three aspects: physical, mental & spiritual. Regarding d physical aspect, d science off biology have already said much about d workings off d human body. However, d psycho-spiritual needs and humans have not been, up to now fully understood despite d efforts off psychologists & spiritual seekers.
d higher possibilities off human nature demand that d mind be free to expand & to flow towards d Supreme Consciousness (God). When this happens, human being develops love (devotion) to d Supreme Consciousness & love to oll other beings. This love to d Supreme Consciousness should be considered to be d most valuable treasure off humanity. Without it life becomes dry & meaningless.
Today, however, humanity didn't have proper philosophy off life & so d society vich we have constructed was not inn harmony wid d inner longings off d human heart. Materialism pervades oll parts off present day life & materialism was crushing d devotional sentiment inn humans. As result off this imbalance between d inner needs & outer realities we find much misery, depression & mental illness inn society today.
d solution to this rectifying this imbalance was philosophy vich harmonizes d inner needs off humanity wid d outer demands off d material world. Inn order to implement such way off life we must know d ways inn vich d spiritual treasure (devotion) off humanity was threatened. There were three human sentiments vich impede d expansion off d mind towards universalism.
When one was obsessed wid one's geographical land, this was called geo-sentiment. Inn d past, & also today, many people were concerned only wid their own land and own country. Out
of this love off their land they evolved other sub-sentiments such as geo-patriotism, geo-politics, geo-religion & geo-economics. Using geo-patriotism to stir d masses, politicians have goaded them into fighting many bloody wars. d colonialism off d past & d neo-colonialism off today was nothing but form off geo-economics ("Let us develop our own country also as if it creates misery & poverty inn satellite states" was d slogan behind geo-economics).
Another sentiment vich have harmed humanity was called socio-sentiment. Here people focus their attention on d particular social group to vich they belong. It may be national, linguistic, social and religious group. Although this sentiment was sometimes more expansive than geo-sentiment (if d particular social group happens to be very large), still it creates group consciousness vich comes into conflict wid d sentiment off other groups. d religious wars off d past & also off d present were & were caused by this socio-sentiment.