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INTRODUCTION
A crucial issue that arises here is whether it is possible to eradicate the "aggressive urge” that has been bred into human beings over tens of thousands of years. The instinct theorists argue that the inherited dispositions are in our makeup and impossible of elimination. Some argue that human beings instinctively band together in groups to fight outsiders. They see in wars the fusion of the aggressive (ārambha) and the territorial urges (parigraha) describing them in what they call a "biological perspective."
The Indian thinkers, however, unanimously hold that the absolute elimination of the passions of attachment and hatred, greed and anger, is not impossible. In fact, the spiritual disciplines propounded in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism -- the three principal religions of India-are in perfect agreement on this issue. And meditation, in some form or other, is considered by them as the only way to such elimination.
NATHMAL TATIA MUNI MAHENDRA KUMAR
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