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Both action and meditation are needed for human well-being. If only one or the other is there, there will be no health, individual or social. Through pravrtti (प्रवृत्ति), one establishes a welfare society through the improvement of economy and the political system. Through [[nivrtti (निवृत्ति)]] one achieves a value-oriented life that comes from humanity's inner spiritual dimension.<ref name=":0" />

Both action and meditation are needed for human well-being. If only one or the other is there, there will be no health, individual or social. Through pravrtti (प्रवृत्ति), one establishes a welfare society through the improvement of economy and the political system. Through [[nivrtti (निवृत्ति)]] one achieves a value-oriented life that comes from humanity's inner spiritual dimension.<ref name=":0" />

Otherwise, plenty of wealth, power, and everything else you may have through pravrtti, but with only pravrtti and no nivrtti, society will be all right in the short run, but in the long run, it will be in trouble. The whole of modern Western civilization today is in trouble because there is no emphasis on nivrtti, there is emphasis only on pravrtti—work, work, and work; earn more and more money, but remain inwardly poorer and poorer, until one be-comes a nervous wreck. Many people are suffering thus in the modern world. I often quote the German philosopher Schopenhauer from his book, The World as Will and Idea; mind you, he told this about 130 years ago and what he said then is absolutely true today. He said: 'When men achieve security and welfare, now that they have solved all other problems, they become a problem to themselves.' How literally true is this for men and women in this mod-ern age! Even in our own country, there is the endless pursuit of money, power, and pleasure; and the result is the creation of widespread value erosion and increasing violence. That is not the way to maintain a healthy human society. The second ele-ment, nivrtti, is lacking. So ankara says Preittinam saksat abhyudaya-niWeyasa-hetuh, 'a philosophy of life which integrates social welfare and spiritual freedom', through action and medi-tation. There is one point to be mentioned in this context. Udaya after abhi means welfare; abhi means together, not alone; it is an

There is stress in modern civilization because there is no emphasis on [[nivrtti (निवृत्ति)]], there is emphasis only on pravrtti (प्रवृत्ति). German philosopher Schopenhauer said: 'When men achieve security and welfare, now that they have solved all other problems, they become a problem to themselves'<ref>Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea</ref>. When there is the endless pursuit of money, power, and pleasure, the result is the creation of widespread value erosion and increasing violence<ref name=":0" />. All this is due to lack of [[nivrtti (निवृत्ति)]].

 

This is So ankara says Preittinam saksat abhyudaya-niWeyasa-hetuh, 'a philosophy of life which integrates social welfare and spiritual freedom', through action and medi-tation. There is one point to be mentioned in this context. Udaya after abhi means welfare; abhi means together, not alone; it is an