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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
will require much more than a surface change to a different style of life; it requires a deep change to a new way of life. This is what we find in the call of our Master for maintaining moderation in all our dealings. He writes ―We are all family people, but we must be moderate in all our dealings and money is also essential for us everywhere. So it becomes our duty to have it for our maintenance and good living.‖
We have also noted that social systems which include monasteries, churches, mutts and ashrams and host of other secular and non-secular institutions tend to decline in performance as they become bigger, more complex and increasingly incomprehensible. They also become less amenable to democratic control, and more vulnerable to disruption at key points. There is evidence that we may be pressing against the limits of our ability to manage large bureaucracies in their current configurations. Spiritual persons always preferred small to big and lived a philosophy of enough is enough. This applies to individuals and can easily be applied to institutions. But for that a great spiritual
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