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बुद्धिप्रभा [ता. १०-१०-१९६३ husnility and love. (3) Ahimsa. brotherly civilisation must And ahimsa, Mahavira taught. be built up. Hate will not is anything but inaction or help us. Today, the nations cowardice. Ahimsa is somet- spend the wealth of emotions hing very positive. Indeed, in strife. We must bring it is something more even God into national life. It is than vittue. It is a shakti, the power of the Spirit we an energy. It is the energy sced to rebuild numanity. of peace, ths will-to-peace
If I were asked to express in a warring warld.
in one word the very soul [3]
of India, I would say :I find the pages of history “Ahimsa.” And the eternal strewn with wreck and ruin. quest of India has been to Wars! Destruction ! Reli- utter and embody ahimsa gious persecutions ! Civilisa- in thought and art and tions have failed. Power and worship and lifc. pride shour in our fierce cry The principle of Ahimsa of progress. We have not influenced India in her dealcarried the vision of Ahimsa ings with the world. She into our life. Our food, our dreamt no dreams of domcommerce, our social life, inion and conquest and is there not more hinsa than she became a Guru even of ahimsa in them ? And what Japan and China, countries do we have in modern jealous of lhe "stranger." politics ? Counsels of passton India was not a militarist or the energé of Ahimsa ? nation : het reverence for
One thing I strongly feel: Humanity Saved her from this civilisation of Himsa imperialist ambitions. It was ( violence ) must go. A a great political truth which
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