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and that contributions could be invited from persons whose lives
and outlook had been deeply affected by K and his teachings. And
that is how we have here a collection of eighteen articles from per-
sons who are eminent in different fields of endeavour and have in
their own unique ways engaged deeply with the teachings. Looking
at the wide range of fields from which our eighteen authors come—
education, academic philosophy, traditional religious teachings,
management of organisations, concern with environment aware-
ness and protection and so on—we may be led to ask whether there
is any common theme with which they are all concerned.
On a close look at their writings, we find that there is such a
common theme: all of them have seen that “the inner always over-
comes the outer” and that “what you are within, you bring about
outwardly.” This strand appears to run implicitly or explicitly
through all the articles. Though the fields of endeavour of each of
the authors in the outer world differ, their inner vision is the same:
they all share the common insight that if we wish to bring about
order in the outer world, it is of much greater and fundamental
importance to establish order in the world of our inner experience,
rather than simply aim to find solutions to ‘fix’ the problems in the
outer world.
The essential difference between the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ is that
while the truths we arrive at about the outer world are conceptual,
explanatory and representational, those discovered in the inner world
are existential and transformational. Hence, inner transformation is
primary while outer changes are secondary. It is with this inner exis-
tential transformation that all our authors, each in his or her own
way, is concerned, as will be clear in going through the articles.
Keeping this in mind, we may look at the authors from the point
of view of the backgrounds from which they come, without intend-
ing to tightly categorise or classify them. It is worth mentioning
that we have among our authors those who come from the back-
ground of a traditional spiritual teaching—Chidananda Swami,

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