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General Editorial
It gives me great pleasure to present here the monograph “The Law of Non-Violence (Ahimsā): Its Relevance for all times”, written by my elderly friend, Shri V.P. Kothari, B.A., LL.B., Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, Gulbarga (Karnataka). Shri Kothari has a comprehensive perspective of the present-day problems facing humanity as a whole. He is moved by a sympathy for man ; and he is out to find a panacea for the contemporary maladies of mankind. He finds it not so much in the achievements of science and technology culminating in the Atom Bomb, as in the Law of Ahimsā, the spirit of which he has inherited and further cultivated by the contact with living embodiments of its practice such as Āchārya Samantabhadra Mahārāj. As an advocate, he has a clear grasp of the basic facts, and he presents his case quite effectively. All reasonable thinkers, who have no ulterior motives, should feel that Shri Kothari has put well his case for further earnest thought on and the sincere pratice of Ahiṁsā, individually and collectively.
On account of quick communication and faster means of travel, the world has become smaller and human beings in different parts of it are brought face to face. Progress in science and technology has put tremendous powers in the hands of man. But as things are developing, terrorism or violence, both individual and organized, is on the increase; and different nations are seized with the lust for power.
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