The Economy of Permanence: A Quest for a Social Order Based on Non-violence (स्थायी अर्थतन्त्र)

Economy of Permanence
FOREWORD
Like this brochure on the 'PRACTICE & PRECEPTS OF JESUS' Dr. Kumarappa's on
'THE ECONOMY OF PERMAENCE' is a jail production. It is not as easy to
understand as the first. It needs careful reading twice or thrice if it is to be
fully appreciated. When I took up the manuscript I was curious to know what it
could contain. The opening chapter satisfied my curiosity and led me on to the
end without fatigue and yet with profit. This doctor of our village industries
shows that only through them we shall arrive at the economy of permanence in
the place of that of the fleeting nature we see around us at present. He tackles
the question - shall the body triumph over and stifle the soul or shall the latter
triumph over and express itself through a perishable body which, with its few
wants healthily satisfied, will be free to subserve the end of the imperishable
soul? This is 'Plain living and High thinking'.
On the train to Bombay. 20-8-1945.
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