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Today’s social system is unnatural because it is based on differentiation. Therefore a true
student of Gandhian Thought should have the guts to revolt against this. Revolutionary spirit should be

always independent, and awakened. With self-sacrificing boldness it should vouch that the state power
and military dominance shall keep out of the independent and co-operative self-government of local

republics.

Loka-Sangraha
Loksangraha is a special word coined by the Bhagavad Geeta to convey all that the wisest

men have to do during their lifetime. The word was first mentioned in Chapter 3.20 and 3.16. It is
declared that only when you walk the path of Loksangraha, from the beginning of your life till the end

of it, as a Sadhaka, you have a chance of reaching to perfection. If you divert to any other direction
you will be shattered to pieces, both outside and inside. Vinoba explains that Loka-sangraha is the

quality of uniting people, not to allow them to split up, to negate parochialism, partitioning and partiality
at any cost. Advaita is reality and Asambheda is the method of realising the reality. This means that the

whole community of human beings should live with mutuality, sharing, love, and lubricating with the
sense of propriety.

The seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of the Bhagavad Geeta mention nine topics where
Lok-Sangraha leads to light the path.

I. The field of Faith
II. The field of Food -Consumption

III. The field of Yajna –Ecological concern.
IV. The field of Dana –Social concern.

V. The field of Tapa –Bodily concern.
VI. The field of surrender.

VII. The field of work -Action, behavior.
VIII. The field of knowledge.

IX. The field of the agent of action - The human being
This whole work of loksangraha is based on science. We all know that to-day through empirical

experiments it is proved that every atom or micro-unit in the universe whether it is perceivable or
unperceivable to human eye, is a combination of electron, proton, and neutron. Further analysis takes

us to Cathode Rays and still further to the ‘United field’ of any genes or species. In olden times, when
empirical evidence was not available humans achieved this knowledge by extreme austerity which

developed their inner faculties to reach out to those subtle truths. In the Indian spiritual parlance this
trios was described as Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.Sattva is the quality of brightness Tamas is the

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