Re-engineering India
Integral Humanism
Synthesizing the Quartet of
Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha
for Lasting Global Peace & Prosperity
Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Propounder of the Philosophical Foundations of Integral Humanism
(Born 25th September 1916 – Dead 11th February 1968)
Humankind, according to Upadhyaya, has four hierarchically organized attributes of body, mind, intellect and soul which corresponded to the four universal objectives of dharma (moral duties), artha (wealth), kama (desire or satisfaction), and moksha (total liberation or ‘salvation’). While none could be ignored, dharma is the ‘basic’, and moksha the ‘ultimate’ objective of humankind and society. He claimed that the problem with both capitalist and socialist ideologies is that they only consider the needs of body and mind, and were hence based on the materialist objectives of desire and wealth.
According to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism, the primary concern in India should be to develop an indigenous development model that has human beings as its core focus. It is opposed to both western capitalist individualism and Marxist socialism, though welcoming to western science. Integral Humanism seeks a middle ground between capitalism and socialism, evaluating both systems on their respective merits, while being critical of their excesses and alienness.
Integral Humanism rejects social systems in which individualism ‘reigns supreme’. It also rejects communism in which individualism is ‘crushed’ as part of a ‘large heartless machine’. Society, according to Upadhyaya, rather than arising from a social contract between individuals, was fully born at its inception itself as a natural living organism with a definitive ‘national soul’ or ‘ethos’ and its needs of the social organism paralleled those of the individual.
Recipients of Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Reengineering India 2020
Re-engineering India Narratives
Bolstering National Integration & Innovation
