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NONVIOLENCE
suffering without injuring others in deed or thought, demands an unflinching and living faith in man's goodness, a faith in the human spirit or Rāma, as Gandhi said.
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What we are referring to here is mankind's common future and not a future characterized by the antagonism of different groups or nations. Violence, ignorance and exploitation go together. Science, Sarvodaya and Ahimsa make a golden triangle which symbolizes man's destiny and his future. Equally certain is it that in a non-violent struggle there are no losers or victors; instead all are uplifted or become more human than before. A non-violent society is not to be conceived as the end of progress, a static, riskless living, but as a beginning of a new chapter in man's evolution infinitely richer in potentialities than anything that has gone on before. The growth of science and technology, the population explosion and large scale urbanization are three obvious pressures acting on man's future urging him towards a non-violent, reason-based world in which the true interest of mankind will not become subordinated to individual and sectional interests. Man's future ultimately depends on more knowledge and more knowledge in turn on an open world. The efforts of all supporters of international co-operation, individuals as well as nations, will be needed to create in all countries a demand for an open world. That itself would be a significant contribution towards a non-violent world.
Science and technology have brought the people of the world closer together than ever before. Dista
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