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0. In the background
- UK will need 123,300 years to return Bharat the 45 trillion that tey plundered.
- We cannot jump directly to work with the following ten ingreduients unless we are aware the answers for a few tough questions
- It is risky to be right on matters that governments are wrong about.
- + the presentation in laptop
1. Readiness for Penetration Wars
The wars today are no more devastative, but penetrative. In place of the borders, today war happens at the level of individual’s buying capacity, culture, psychology, and the governance (the systems) that monitor individual behavior.
As have the formats of war changed, so must the kind of army – the need for a Prosperity Army. (More in Addwit Vyavsaay Upanishad)
2. Filling Up Dangerous Gaps
The levels of (so-called) “aspirations” are high today, like never before. Even if these are pseudo-aspirations, (nothing more than urge to copy someone else), the individual behavior is largely controlled by the same; the anyhow-somehow’ tendencies resulting in greed, corruption, crime, cheating.
Reason? Aspiration-skills gap, aspiration-character gap. Skills and character… Where are the origins of degradation, where did we go wrong? (More in AKS 2.0 – Deploying Ancient Knowledge Systems)
3. Financial Acumen In Middle Class
The middle-class, living a typical corporate lifestyle, is too busy, and too ignorant about basics of money – unaware and ignorant that most of them are busy creating liabilities rather than assets. Debt-driven economy and demand-driven society depicts not the prosperity, but an antithesis of it.
Solution? The middle-class on a long learning curve for financial acumen. (More in Addwit Money Matters)
4. Sloganeering-free Atmnirbharata
Atmnirbharata cannot be founded upon political sloganeering. Atmnirbharata, the local self-reliance, is inadequately defined – Atmnirbharata for a nation and Atmnirbharata for a family, in current formats of governance, are pulling the cart to two opposite directions. Atmnirbharata policies bounded upon (political) sloganeering will prove to be self-defeating; and very soon.
Atmnirbharata is the first unit for prosperity. But how? Six critical life positions. (More in this awareness course)
5. Firm Connectedness with the Three
Don’t trust these words, do your own survey – (up to) 80% of people who receive formal education, who move to a different (metropolitan) city, get disconnected from the three – ancestral land, parents, and culture. The disconnect only gets accumulated over generations, and as a result, we disconnect from the “source” of prosperity.
This isn’t a silent problem. This is a screaming crisis – screaming loud. (More in AKS 2.0 – Deploying Ancient Knowledge Systems)
6. Need for a Darshan
To quote from the work of Ericsson and Chamess – “unless there is a clear philosophy directive behind a training program, the trainees will be lost”. Philosophy provides definitions, outlines what, why, and how (the roadmap) for what we want to accomplish; as well as provides the much-needed ideological horsepower for sustaining the trajectory.
Where else can we draw such philosophy for prosperity from, if not from the days it prevailed?
7. If the Quadrant is Difficult, Begin with Triad
Prosperity in true sense, is always ethical, because it works at intersection of the four Varnas, four Ashramas and four Purusharthas. We are using the term “Ethical Prosperity” only to reiterate, to draw attention to the ‘ethical’ dimension of it. Why? Because, we have lost the sense (the taste and art) of balancing the four – Dharm, Arth, Kaam, Moksh.
Solution? If our current lifestyle does not allow to accommodate Dharm and Moksh, then, we can make a beginning with the triad of Arth, Kaam, and Naitikata. This triad promises what is worth the efforts, even if it takes a few generations to accomplish visible Ethical Prosperity. (More in AKS 2.0 – Deploying Ancient Knowledge Systems)
8. Economic War: Economic Shatrubodh
The common people (customers and small business owners) need to recognize this one fact – the systems and surroundings (rules, norms, markets, narratives) we are expected to survive and thrive in, are part of a “war strategy” where, in all its likelihood, the common people is the target.
Solution? An unprecedented, credo-level discipline and awareness among masses. (More in Kasht Customers Ke)
9. “Modernity” Under Scrutiny
Remember, there used to be evenings (?), children playing in garden (?), grandparents chuckling in the joy of being in a rich neighborhood? We cannot break free from one set of rules that guide our lifestyle to another, unless we take up a serious scrutiny.
Is that worth it? Yes, it can be a gift from our generation to the next. The onus is on our generation who are at the cusp – in a position to see all the three – the past, the present, and the future.
10. Ethical Prosperity: Includes Numbers, & More
Ethical Prosperity is just as pragmatic a possibility as have been the other milestone in humanity development – Shoony, Ayurved, Yog, Dhyan, etc. However, till that is understood, accepted, and practiced, the number-centric power systems may (will) impose resistance. That’s natural. No-one wants to let go the power.
Solution? It’s only a matter of time when the weight of have-not’s brings down the forcefully accumulated (centralized) power circles. (Richard Poe, Wave 4). Hence, the power can play catalyst role rather than imposing resistance.
[This article is based on the (upcoming) talk by Dr. Arvind Agrawal, Addwit Institute, https://addwit.org/ on 28 January 2026 at SamRiddhi Conference hosted by ReThink India Institute, https://rethinkindia.online/].
