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Confucius is credited with saying: "Men of superior righteousness spontaneously keep practising the middle path, equally away from extremes." [1] Maha Avatar, July-September 1981, page 29

Shri Mataji has spoken about Confucius:

Confucius because he talked about humanity. He said that humanity’s important and the collective. But without realization how do you understand collectivity? (1990-02-28)

Confucius wanted to establish a quality of people, a category of people who would have a feeling for others and we say in samajikata or the public-minded people. Mostly human beings are selfish. They live for their families. At the most they may live for some relations of theirs. But some of them are of a category who rise above that limited sphere and become conscious about the needs of the society. Now when we see somebody dying or getting drowned in the sea we find somebody jumping to save that person. In that case who saves is not that person, but the collectivity that is within this gentleman. He feels something of his part and parcel is getting drowned and he must save that part and parcel, so he jumps to save that. In the same way in the fire, in any catastrophes when we find people dying to save others, we can explain that innately we are collective beings. Within us there is a collective feeling, and when this collective feeling is expressed in this manner, you prepare grounds for the Divine to work through because the Divine is something that is absolutely collective. (1986-10-09)

You have to feel the humanism of Confucius within you. (1985-05-07)

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Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs;[1] 551–479 BC)[2][3] was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...(more)

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 See also: [[Ten Primordial Masters]]
-==From [http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sahajhist  Saints, Sufis and Yogis]==
+'''Confucius''' is credited with saying: "Men of superior righteousness spontaneously keep practising the middle path, equally away from extremes."
+[http://www.divinecoolbreeze.org/DCB-magazine/NIRMALA-YOGA/Maha-Avatar/Maha-Avatar-JulySeptember-1980/] ''Maha Avatar'', July-September 1981, page 29
-Confucius (551-479BCE) was a Chinese sage, teacher and administrator, whose ideas have profoundly influenced Chinese society through 2,500 years. His observations and teachings are to be found in the ''Analects'' (''Li chi''), which were mostly compiled by his disciples and successors in later years. There are alternative versions of his life in the later ''Mengzi'' by Mencius, and also in the later ''Zuozhuan''.
+'''Shri Mataji''' has spoken about Confucius:
-His family and personal name was Kong Qiu. He is also known as Kongzi or Kong Fuzi (lit: Master Kong). The Latinized name, Confucius, is derived from Kong Fuzi, and was first used by the Jesuit missionaries to China in the sixteenth century.
+Confucius because he talked about humanity. He said that humanity’s important and the collective. But without realization how do you understand collectivity? [https://www.amruta.org/1990/02/28/talk-to-sahaja-yogis-singapore-airport-1990/ (1990-02-28)]
-Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has stated that Confucius was an incarnation of the Primordial Master, who “taught the humanity how we can improve our relations with other human beings” (1995-0913), and who “wanted to establish a quality of people, a category of people who would have a feeling for others and we say in samajikata or the public-minded people” (1986-1009).
+Confucius wanted to establish a quality of people, a category of people who would have a feeling for others and we say in ''samajikata'' or the public-minded people. Mostly human beings are selfish. They live for their families. At the most they may live for some relations of theirs. But some of them are of a category who rise above that limited sphere and become conscious about the needs of the society. Now when we see somebody dying or getting drowned in the sea we find somebody jumping to save that person. In that case who saves is not that person, but the collectivity that is within this gentleman. He feels something of his part and parcel is getting drowned and he must save that part and parcel, so he jumps to save that. In the same way in the fire, in any catastrophes when we find people dying to save others, we can explain that innately we are collective beings. Within us there is a collective feeling, and when this collective feeling is expressed in this manner, you prepare grounds for the Divine to work through because the Divine is something that is absolutely collective. [https://www.amruta.org/1986/10/09/speech-in-lions-club-calcutta-1986/ (1986-10-09)]
-In 1990 in Hong Kong, Shri Mataji observed that Lao Tse was working out the left side, and that Confucius was working out the right side. (reported by Alex Henshaw)
+You have to feel the humanism of Confucius within you. [https://www.amruta.org/1985/05/07/shraddha-is-faith-after-enlightenment-vienna-1985/ (1985-05-07)]
+== wikipedia ==
-Bibliography:
-''The Analects of Confucius'', translated by Burton Watson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007);
+Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs;[1] 551–479 BC)[2][3] was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius (more)]
-Mark Cartwright, ‘Confucius’  [2012]
-http://www.ancient.eu.com/Confucius/ ;
-Raymond Dawson, ''Confucius'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981);
-Alex Henshaw, ‘The left and right side’ in ''Eternally Inspiring Recollections of our Divine Mother'', edited by Linda J.Williams (London: Blossomtime Publishing, 2nd ed., 2013), vol.5:125;
-Jeffrey Riegel, ‘Confucius’ [2002; rev. 2013]
-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
-http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius ;
-Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Berthrong, eds., ''Confucianism and ecology: the interrelation of heaven, earth, and humans'' (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998);
-Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds., Confucian spirituality (New York: Crossroad, 2003)