We came from the jungle in the hope of doing better in our villages and cities, but our villages and cities have failed. Man had the potential to either rise above the animal or fall way below it. Man has continuously been making the wrong choice. If you cannot build your cities and your social systems on spiritual foundations, then it is better to stay in the jungle. If your family, your workplace, your institutions do not run on spiritual grounds, then they better not run at all.
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Acharya Prashant: Our culture and civilization have gone wrong. We came from the jungle in the hope of doing better in our villages and cities, but our villages and cities have failed. We still find in many ways the jungle to be better than our villages and cities.
There is nobody who is not sometimes seized by a strong desire to return to the jungle. Does that not happen? It is because that which we call our education, our society, our systems, our thought, our philosophy, our civilization—all are based on very material grounds. There is no spiritual basis to them, so they have failed to take us to a level of consciousness higher than that of the jungle. I have often said that animals are in many ways better than human beings.
Man had the potential to either rise above the animal or fall way below it. Man has continuously been making the wrong choice. If you cannot build your cities and your social systems on spiritual foundations, then it is better to stay in the jungle. If your family, your workplace, your institutions do not run on spiritual grounds, then they better not run at all.
