New Types of Problems in Our Time Oxford (England)

Public Program. Oxford (UK), 8 July 1980. I must apologise for being late today because we were under a wrong impression. We are today facing a new type of problem within our lives, which in the olden times people did not face. Most of them did not think of it; very few thought of it. They were contented people with their ignorance and they did not bother to find out what is beyond us. Perhaps that time we were trying to develop ourselves materially. We were trying to build our tubes and our trains and our hospitals but when that is all over, a new seeking starts in the being, the nature of which is an urge. But what we are seeking we do not know. It’s the first time such an urge starts. Before this we had an urge, say, to eat our food; we knew we were hungry, we have to eat. Or we wanted some shelters, we wanted to build our houses; we wanted comfortable life; we wanted to build our great civilisations, you can say, of affluent countries. But all those wants, very well known to us (so) we could plan about them think about them, were all right till we reached a certain stage of evolution. Suddenly we got exposed to a new urge within us which wanted to know something of the beyond, which was really of the beyond. Because whatever is of the beyond is not conceivable from this end. It cannot be Read More …