August 25, 2025
How do I bring about total development? Note the question: How do I bring it about? Hidden in this question is the answer that it is “I” that brings about development. In order to bring about total development, I must bring about self-development first. I must have integrated, total inner development, which we call spiritual development.
Once this is there, then whatever it touches will become totally developed. For example, we can all go into the fields and cultivate the whole of Mauritius. That is total development. But, as I am doing this, I am also watching for signs of sectional feeling. Do I want some kind of development for myself - for my clan, my community, my this, my that?
Then I am already violent. The desire for sectional development is itself violence! Unless I prevent it from rearing its head in me now, I cannot prevent it later, and total development will not happen.