SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
ON THE SOCIETY
“Despite 2000 years of evolution
in modern times, we have still not
managed to develop the
intelligence to create a society
that knows what love is. Our
society is still not a civilization, it
is still primitive and barbaric.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“The most important thing that
is happening in the world right
now is the emerging of the new
man.
With the new man, a great
revolution will bring the soul
in. Man will not just be a mind, a
psychological being, he will be a
spiritual being.
This new consciousness, this new
being, is the most important
thing, which is happening in the
world today. But the old man will
be against the emerging of the
new man, the old man will be
against this new consciousness.
The new man is a matter of Life
and death, it is a question of the
survival of the whole earth. It is
matter of survival of
consciousness, of survival of life
itself.
The old man has become utterly
destructive. The old man is
preparing for a global suicide
right now. Rather than allowing
the new man, the old man would
rather destroy the whole earth,
destroying life itself.
The old destructive man is
preparing right now for a third
world war. The global economical
and political elite and the war
industrial complex in the U.S.,
which runs the foreign policy of
the U.S, is right now promoting
for a third world war.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Wars are an outdated way to try
to solve conflicts, which are
unacceptable in the 21st century.
Instead of trying to conquer
yourself, wars are an unconscious
way to try to conquer life. Wars
are an unconscious way to try to
conquer death, which is the basic
fear in the West.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Sweden is not one of the
countries that will walk in the
front line in developing the new
man, the new consciousness for
the 21st century.
Sweden consists of separate
minds that do not allow each
other to grow, and whose focus
are to mantain status quo, which
creates a country without joy.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“There is a very simple
relationship between increased
socioeconomic rifts in the society
and increased violence,
criminality, war, increased lack of
trust between people, health
problems and social exclusion
– but it seems to be very difficult
for people to understand this
simple relationship.”
— Swami Dhyan Giten
“The climate change is the
greatest challenge for humanity.
The current climate change is an
outer mirror of our inner
consciousness.
It is an outer mirror of our
attitude to try to conquer nature,
instead of being in harmony with
nature, but in the end the part
can never conquer the whole.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“It is not many things that modern psychology agrees upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility.
The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours.
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “nobody at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles.
It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
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