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Integral growth means the net growth of the world. Integral growth is the purpose of the world, and getting utilized for this big purpose is our individual purpose.
Integral growth happens through creation. Creation can be either creation of a new species, a great scientific invention, or just a tiny value creation.
A simple example of creation is a shopkeeper in a village procuring goods from a nearby town and selling with an amicable profit. It adds value to all – to the shopkeeper as well as the villagers. The net value of the world is increased.
Creative transactions, as the example cited above, increase the value of the world – thus contributing to growth.
Destructive transactions diminish the value of the world – they waste effort and resources. Using your marketing skills to sell goods which actually does not add value to your customers are examples of destructive transactions.
Pure competition adds no value to the world. Integral growth comes from creation, and not from competition. Competition misutilizes our abilities.
Opportunities of creation, when executed, give birth to more opportunities. Quite opposite to the common belief that the world has limited resources and opportunities for which people are competing, the world is infinitely evolving.
Take an example. Raw iron metal is of little value. But somebody took the opportunity of making bi-cycles out of it. People took the opportunities to use bi-cycles to go to their workplaces. Work moved faster, giving birth to further opportunities.
Like this, in the creative plane, opportunities are multiplying in this world exponentially.
Some people believe that the amount of wealth in the world is limited. In contrast, what we pondered above clearly implies that the wealth in the world is exponentially growing.
