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464 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1962
If you鈥檙e a Tantrik, you don鈥檛 renounce the world or deny its value; you don鈥檛 try to escape into a Nirvana apart from life, as the monks of the Southern School do. No, you accept the world and make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.
First, because it simply isn鈥檛 possible for Pala to go on being different from the rest of the world. And second, because it isn鈥檛 right that it should be different.
What are boys and girls for in America? Answer: for mass consumption. (鈥�) Whereas in Russia there鈥檚 a different answer. Boys and girls are for strengthening the national state. (鈥�) And in China it鈥檚 the same, but a good deal more so. What are boys and girls for there? For cannon fodder, industry fodder, agriculture fodder, road-building fodder.