INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – THE CONCEPT OF PROGRESS
following in their little domains far from the cities. The
bringing of the values of the forest into the cities in a
sense is the beginning of a revolutionary process,
progress in this sense consists in the quantum of
achievement of the goals envisioned above to which we
have been adding a few more which are but
amplifications of the threefold goals of mystic life in
heaven. The historical process now underway is really
the spectacle of this movement in which the 'ingression
of the mystic unearthly ballet of categories' is forcibly,
psychologically, being conditioned at the political level.
If we could but look back in history to the decried
democracy of ancient times we could surely see that
the mystic beliefs of a few advanced souls has become
the materialistic beliefs of the common man—the
ignorant voter of a democracy all over the world.
Though men have not been educated to think as well
as they should they have been entrusted with the vote
that means that one is made of his individual choice of
the triple goals of a mystical earthism. Would it be
progress if these ideals of humanity were realized?
Obviously the social utopian would think so, and
modern man turned social mystic would embrace this
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