Today mankind is confronted with a number of basic and baffling problems like,

How to reconcile -

4      Individual liberty with social discipline,

4      Incentive for individual development with urge for equality,

4      Economic growth with social justice;

4      Basic organic unity with apparent diversities;

4      State authority with industrial and civic self-governments;

4      System with spontaneity,

4      Social order with statelessness;

4      Self-restraint with self-unfoldment,

4       Rationalism with consciousness of the office and limitations of reason;

4       Specialisation with integrated view;

4       Material advance with spiritual elevation;

4       National self-reliance with international cooperation;

4      Liberty without licentiousness,

4      Discipline without regimentation;

4      Status without privileges;

4      Unity without uniformity,

4      Stability without stagnation,

4      Dynamism without adventurism;

4      State authority without stateism;

4      Technological advance without loss of humaneness;

4      Material prosperity without crude 'materialism';

4      Vertical arrangement of societies without their horizontal division;

4      Humanism without homo-centricism.

On a national plane too, there are a number of urgent and challenging problems like
How to reconcile -

4      Expansion of employment opportunities with up-to-date modern technology;

4      Decentralised processes of production with increase in productivity;

4      Nationalisation with public accountability;

4      Pace of urbanisation with cultural background;

4      Micro-planning at lower levels with macro-planning at national level;

4       Integration of various natural groups with the preservation of their distinct group characteristics;

4      Bharatiya values of life with the modern scientific and technological advance;

4      Demands of the modern age with the Sanatana ideals of Dharma*.

4       Evolution of the world state enriched by the growth and contribution of different natural cultures; and

4       Evolution of Manava Dharma** enriched by the perfection of all the religions including 'materialism'.

Needless to add that this enumeration is illustrative, not exhaustive Reconstruction and research go invariably together. Research -- intensive as well extensive -- in all departments of national and international life.

BMS is convinced that these basic problems cannot be solved except on the basis of a Bharatiya Model.