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THE VOWS ARE VERY ESSENTIAL
I have particularly noted the vous prescribed at page 528 and they are undoubtedly very essential to raise the moral and spiritual height of cur people. The difficulty with us unfortunately, has been not the ·want of a proper philosophy of life, but the want of prac. tie of our ancient philosophy, From what I have seen all these years in all walks of life, I feel the necessity of
„HON'BLE SHÁI G. V. NAVALANKAR SPEAKER LOK SABHA INDIA.
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f the principles, which we always have on our lips.Non-violence has to be a creed of the life of everyone of us. It is difficult to make it a creed. I requires the acquisition of a good number of qualities. L'nless a man shreds his fear-complex, speaks truth and looks upon others the same way in which he looks upon himself, it is not. possible for him to practise non-violence; and again, mere physical non-violence is not enough. There must be nonviolence in thoughts as well as in words and deeds. It is only when we begin in practise on a large scale nondialence of this type that we shall be able to realise full democracy, Mere absence of the foreigner or a machinery for election does not give us democracy in the reat sense.
the term. In other words, it is necessary to spiritualise pur
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individual as well as national life.
(His letter No.
1954)
