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FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD PEACE AHIMSA AND ANEKANTA 239
effective because it is backed by love. Let the stronger and richer nations befriend the downtrodden and thus establish hegemony of love. We appeal to the ruling powers to make an experiment with love and friendship as moral weapons and keep the destructive nuclear weapons in cold storage. This was the ideal which moved Mahatma Gandhi. This ideal can produce tangible results if the powerful nations are induced to give a trial to this principle. The weaker nations too must not be misled to have recourse to violence as the means of selfamelioration. This pursuit of non-violence will play an effective role in national and international spheres if there is consciousness of the futility of extreme measures which is the objective of anekanta attitude of mind.
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