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   PROUT Gems   
      
   An examination of the 4th principle of PROUT   
      
   If a particular person is endowed with all three potentialities (physical,   
   mental and spiritual) and if only their physical services are utilized, then   
   they may not be able to serve the society with their intellectual or   
   spiritual potentialities. So there should be proper adjustment in the   
   process of encouraging service from individuals or collective bodies.   
      
   Here "proper" means progressive. According to PROUT's law of adjustment one   
   should utilize mostly that potential which is most subtle in a person, and   
   only secondarily the less subtle one. The utilization of subtler and more   
   rare potentials should always be preferred.   
      
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   The 4th fundamental principle of Prout states:   
      
   "There should be a proper adjustment amongst these physical, metaphysical,   
   mundane, supramundane and spiritual utilizations."   
      
   Purport: While promoting individual and collective welfare there should be   
   proper adjustment amongst the physical, mental and spiritual and the crude,   
   subtle and causal factors. For example, society has the responsibility of   
   meeting the minimum necessities of every individual but if society arranges   
   food and builds a house for everyone under the impetus of this   
   responsibility, individual initiative becomes retarded. People will   
   gradually become lethargic. Therefore society has to make such arrangements   
   so that people, in exchange for their labour according to their capacity,   
   can earn the money they require to purchase the minimum necessities. In   
   order to raise the level of minimum necessities of people the best policy is   
   to enhance their purchasing capacity.   
      
   The law of adjustment further stipulates that while taking services from a   
   person who is physically, mentally and spiritually developed, society should   
   follow a balanced policy of adjustment. If only one of these three   
   capacities - physical, mental or spiritual - is developed in a person,   
   society should take the one that is developed. If both physical and   
   intellectual capacities are sufficiently developed in a person, society   
   should adopt the policy of adjustment, which takes more intellectual service   
   and less physical service, because intellectual power is comparatively   
   subtle and rare. If all three capacities - physical, mental and spiritual -   
   are found in one person, society should make greatest use of their spiritual   
   service and least of their physical service.   
      
   The greatest service to the cause of social welfare can be rendered by those   
   who have acquired spiritual power, and the next service by those having   
   intellectual power. Those having physical power, though not negligible,   
   cannot do anything by themselves. Whatever they do is done under the   
   instructions of those with intellectual and spiritual power. Hence the   
   responsibility of social control should not be in the hands of those who   
   have great physical capacity, or in the hands of those endowed with courage,   
   or in the hands of those who are intellectually developed, or in the hands   
   of those with worldly skills. Social control should be in the hands of those   
   who are spiritual aspirants, intelligent and brave all at the same time.   
   (See Ananda Sutram 1962 by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti / P R Sarkar)   
      
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   In this regard one must ask, what can quench the human apiration?   
      
   If land is bountiful and per capita income is very high, does it mean that   
   the all-round micro-psychic conations or the all-round micro-psychic   
   aspirations of the people are fully quenched or not?  That is, taking the   
   human entity as a microcosm, will their aspirations be quenched by physical   
   and then psychic longings and gains?   
      
   The answer must be no. To quench the all-round micro-psychic longings of the   
   people, there must be the following:   
   - Psycho-spiritual education. As there can be balkanization of society if   
   there is no psycho-spiritual education, eg this is evident by fighting   
   between religions.   
   - Rule by moralists and people of ethical calibre based on universal   
   cardinal human values.   
   - A balanced structure.  Eg in the political structure at least the three   
   arms of government - legislature, executive, judicial.   
   - Ever-increasing purchasing power. If the per capita income is $500 and the   
   price of acquiring food per year is $800, the condition of the people will   
   be very bad.   
      
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   It is essential also that there be the availability of minimum   
   essentialities of life.   
      
   The availability of minimum essentialities of life plays a vital part not   
   only in achieving world fraternity but also in the development of human   
   personality. Every human being has certain minimum requirements, which must   
   be guaranteed to him or her. Guaranteed availability of foodstuffs,   
   clothing, medical assistance and housing or accommodation should be   
   arranged, so that people may be able to use their surplus energy - energy up   
   till now engaged in procuring the necessities of life - in subtler pursuits.   
   Side by side, there should be sufficient scope for providing other amenities   
   of the progressive age. To fulfill the above responsibilities, sufficient   
   purchasing capacity should be created. If the supply of requirements be   
   guaranteed without any conditions of personal skill and labor, the   
   individual may develop the psychology of idleness.   
      
   The minimum requirements of every person are the same, but diversity is also   
   the nature of creation. Special amenities should therefore be provided, so   
   that diversity in skill and intelligence is fully utilized and talent is   
   encouraged to contribute its best for human development. It will therefore   
   be necessary to make provision for special emoluments, which can cater for   
   special amenities of life according to the age and times. But at the same   
   time there should be constant effort to reduce the gap between the amount of   
   special emoluments and the bare minimum requirements of the average   
   individual. The guaranteed supply of minimum requirements must be   
   liberalized by increasing the provision of special amenities pertaining to   
   the age and also simultaneously bringing about a decrease in the provision   
   of special emoluments given to the few. The never-ending effort of proper   
   economic adjustment must ceaselessly continue at all times with a view to   
   assisting the spiritual, mental and physical evolution of humanity, and   
   letting humanity develop a Cosmic sentiment for a Cosmic ideal and world   
   fraternity.   
      
   In this socio-conomic set-up humanity is at full liberty in the spiritual   
   and mental spheres. This is possible because the spiritual and psychic   
   entities for which people can aspire are themselves unlimited and the extent   
      
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