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TULSI-PRAINA
This exposition of the postulates is a rare document on the subject that Gurudev Tulsi bas produced. A new Concept of Abimsa :
The first Guru of Terapanth, Acharya Bhikshu, established some new concepts about Ahimsa. But unfortunately the then existing society could not digest those values and consequently he had to face opposition and struggle. Now Gurudev Tulsi has tried to present it in the new context. Some of the concepts are given below : 1. Pure Ahimsa is converting the heart to Non-violence without
which some element of violence in some form or the other does
remain present. 2. To believe that smaller ills are sometimes to be accepted for the
bigger good is not Ahimsa. Ill or bad should not be accepted
at all even in infinitesimal quantity. 3. To use violence even to convert/change one to non-violence is
not permitted. 4. Ahimsa is not on a barter basis, that is "you be not bad to me,
I will not be bad to you", but you have to be good and non
violont unconditionally, whatever the other does. 5. Ahimsa is basically to save one from mental degradation not a
means to survival. Who is non-violent (Abimsak)?
Who can be called non-violent is a point on which Indian Rishis/Munis have pondered a lot. Gurudev Tulsi has said that we will fiod people in big oumbers who will praise non-violence, but only a few who will really understand it. That is why he has repeatedly said that the concept of non-violence has more to fear from its friends than from its focs. He has narratted his teachings on the subject as under: 1. He who welcomes the death on its approach with calmness, can
be a true Ahimsak (Non-violent). 2. A non-violent person remains calm in all circumstances. 3. An Abimsak refrains from killing even though having the power
to kill. 4. An ahimsak secs the inner core of the thing and not the outor
shell. 5. A true non-violent, even gives his own life to convert the oppos
ent's heart to non-violence. 6. If an ahimsak is unable to face a violent person then he is not
truc Non-violeat.
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| SR No. | 524594 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1998 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1998 |
| Total Pages | 200 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 8 MB |