Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar: Difference between revisions

Although Sarkar spent only seventeen years of his life working full-time for his organisations (1966–1971 & 1978–1990), he left behind a vast legacy, including over 250 books written on a wide variety of topics. Many of this books are compilation or collections of speeches given by the author during spiritual or social meetings. He is primarily known as the [[spirituality|spiritual]] teacher behind [[Ananda Marga]], but Sarkar wrote over 1500 pages on his economic [[Progressive Utilization Theory]] (PROUT) and several thousand more pages dedicated to [[linguistics]] and the study of [[language]]s; Sarkar's writings on linguistics included among other works, ''Shabda Cayanika'' ("A Collection of Words"), an unfinished, twenty-six volume dictated encyclopaedia on the [[Bengali language]].{{sfn|Ānandamūrti|1996|p=9}} Beyond this he wrote books on sociology, agriculture, history, literature, education, medicine, [[cosmology]], and philosophy, also notably founding the philosophy of Neohumanism in 1982 and the Theory of Microvita in 1986. In his Theory of Microvita, Sarkar "believed that the atoms and the subatomic particles throughout the boundless universe are imbued with life."<ref name="The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies">{{cite book|title=The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WzxQAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=6 November 2012|year=1998|publisher=Institute of Historical Studies.|page=101}}</ref>