Is the spiritual purpose of human life to be found outside the context of society? Bhagawan, our Loving Lord, firmly explains to us today.

What has sociology or the social sciences to do with the sciences of the spirit or the inquiry into the human spirit? This is a question that is commonly raised. So too, many do ask: What has the spiritual student and sadhaka to do with society and its problems? It must be said that both these attitudes are wrong. No society can find its fulfilment, and no social ideal can fructify without the blossoming of the spirit of man. Mankind cannot realise the Divinity whose expression it is, without careful and constant attention being paid to the cultivation of the spirit. How else can this Divinity express itself than in and through individuals? We can apprehend only the jagat (world), this moving and inconstant play; we cannot see or hear, smell or taste or touch the Director of the play, God. In the same manner, we can apprehend the individual, but not the entity named Society. For Society is no separate and distinct complex formed out of elemental components. Society is the divine proliferation produced by the Will Supreme. Society cannot justify itself by planning to divide the spoils gained out of Nature either in equal shares or unequal shares. The consummation that must inspire Society has to be the establishment and elaboration in every social act and resolution, of the knowledge of the One Universal Atma and the bliss that knowledge confers.