Ahimsa the Ultimate Winner

SR No.: 001630
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N P Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 298
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Ahimsa
File Size: 18 MB

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WHEREAS tremendous advances in science and technology have created a glamour world of comforts and luxuries; at the same time they have also been misused for producing nuclear bombs and other lethal weapons of mass destruction;
WHEREAS religions have propagated the world as one family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam); at the same time possessive and exploitative instincts of humans have divided the society into haves and have-nots, harmed the larger living world and upset the ecological equilibrium;
WHEREAS in recent times great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King have courageously and effectively used Ahimsa for gaining respectively political independence. ending apartheid and fighting racial discrimination; at the same time the world has drifted towards escalating violence and barbarous terrorism in all spheres of life causing much physical suffering, mental distress and engulfing humanity in a syndrome of fear and insecurity.
The Pledge
In the light of the above and in this year of Ahimsa coinciding with 2600th birth anniversary of Jain prophet Mahavir. we, the Signatories to the Declaration recall the teachings of Mahavir of Non-Violence being the Supreme Religion (Ahimsa Parmo Dharmaha) and solemnly pledge:
To commit ourselves with courage and resolve to the culture of non-violence in our day to day lives and to propagate actively the building up of a global commitment to the culture of nonviolence at individual as well as collective levels.
To call upon the Secretary General of the United Nations to take the initiative to include in the Preamble to the UN Charter the concept of "irrevocable commitment to the culture of NonViolence."
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