The individual creates the group or society

One fine day he and his friend are talking to each other and here is the conversation. H - He HF - His Friend HF : Where are you coming from? H : I am coming from the park; today I joined the “DYAN” group. This group contains a small group of people who gathers in the park and does meditation, yoga and discuss about social reform. I am feeling satisfied by joining this group. HF : Is not satisfaction a hindrance to deep understanding about something? Is not the revolution of an individual has greater significance than collective revolution? H : But all the revolutions in the world are collective. HF : I don’t think so, the energy for those revolutions has been spread out from an individual, it may be Bhudha, Marx, Hitler, Tagore, Girban, Galib…etc. Some of them might have destroyed or brought peace to society, but they all took birth from the explosion of an individual’s insight into the disorder of human life. Even your “DYAN” group has also came from an individual’s mind isn’t it? H : There are so many youngsters doing charity work collectively, do you say it is wrong? HF : Yes and No! H : How come yes and no, it should be either yes or no? HF : They are wrong, when they are easily getting satisfied by just joining, (or) by doing some little work and think they did marvelous job (or) waiting for an article to come in the news paper or television about their group (or) when they compare with what they have done with what other group has accomplished. To put it simply when you don’t die to the good that you have done to others the self becomes strong. They are not wrong, only even though they are working collectively each group member is exerting his own energy to understand the issue and try to have new insights about the problem, the individual should not get carried away by the group. He must have capacity to question his own understanding as well as the group. I am not saying he should be in conflict with the group, but the mind should not be slave to any other, the other might be a group, religious organization, guru, ideology, ideal…etc. In one of the meeting Jaya Prakash Narayan quoted like this “When a human being is working and the desire for fame or recognition are absent GOD will be along with him” http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known