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( 14 ) Swami Shardhanand, and Rajpal are recent happenings of the present times. The murderers have after a sentence of death by a Court of Law, and execution at the gallows, been applauded as martyrs.
Kill the Enemy. Political Himsa, the killing of armies in battle, murder in mass, is justified as a necessity for national existence. On a declaration of war, each and every one of the countries engaged in war, consider that theirs is a just cause, and the hostile party is in the wrong. All the combatants pray to the same one God, to help them in destroying the homes and hearths of the hostile people, and pray for victory, which spells destruction of the opposing armies. Such is the excitement created by the priests, the clergy, the followers of the Prince of Peace, that even churches and hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries and museums, factories and workshops, shops and granaries, are not spared, nor are friends and relations. The crime committed at Kurukshetra ruined India that was. Mahabharata devastated Bharata Varsha, the land of Bharat. The battles of the Crusade, the wars of the Roses, the French Revolution the war of American Independence, the Havoc of 1857, the Revolution in Russia, the Great War, in which India and the leading great Powers of the world were engaged for five long years, have very largely contributed to Himsa on a huge scale, which though justified as political necessity, is Himga unpardonable.
Municipal Slaughter. A very cruel slaughter and on a very extensive scale, is committed in the name of municipal and national economy, for the preservation of health and of property from pests. The whole-sale destruction of stray dogs and of rats is horribly cruel. Widespread campaigns for the extermination of locusts were organised by Provincial Governments and Indian States, in which high salaried officers, with high-sounding academic degrees, obtained from Foreign Universities, were engaged, and heavy allowances and retinues and expensive corps of subordinate officials
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| SR No. | 001105 |
| Book Title | Purusharthsiddhyupay English |
| Original Sutra Author | Amrutchandracharya |
| Author | Ajit Prasad |
| Publisher | ZZZ Unknown |
| Publication Year | 1933 |
| Total Pages | 160 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Ethics, & Principle |
| File Size | 11 MB |