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ming it. Gurudev Tulsi has a firm belief that even if violence may have reached its extreme, the creed of Non-violence will retain its relevance because it is a natural state of mind. Storm and turbulance may disrupt but cannot be permanent. He wants to jolt the human thinking hy saying that the question is not to evaluate Ahimsa, but to establish it. He agrees that today is the testing period for the creed, but if Ahimsa provided solution to present-day problems, then it will establish itself by itself. To talk of establishing Non-violence without strengthing 'it is like talking of mythical 'Akash Kusum." And for establisbing it, he opines the invariableness of the change of heart and the training of mind. According to Guru dev Tulsi four things work as impediments in establishing of nonviolence :
1. Practice of impure means 2. Lack of faith in Non-violence 3. Lack of experiements and training in i 4. The degeneration of compassion.
It means that however ideal the object may be unless the inteHect following it is not pure the ideal cannot be achieved. That is you cannot establish Non-violence by the means implying violence. Means are as important as eod, pure end cannot be achieved by impure means. A blood-soaked cloth cannot be cleaned by blood itself-pure water is needed to do it.
The second impediment is the lack of faith in its efficacy. This is most important because unless you have complete and real faith in it, it is useless going after it. It amounts to dishonesty intent. Then the urge does not emanate from the heart and it is superficial.
The third impediment is lack of training in it. Howsoever god your intentions and firm your faith, unless you are trained in it, it is useless and nonproductive. For this you have to consider the following: 1. Every body notices the arms but, nobody tries to find out the
urge of manufacturing and keeping it. The "why" of it. 2. Non-violence is related to the human urges and the natural
environment accompanying it. 3. To see if the position of terror and violence has anywhere beca
met successfully with non-violence. 4. Have we taken non-violence to mean “Not killing” only or have
we taken it with deeper implications. 5. It is said that in front of a genuine Non-violent person even a
violent person loses his urge of violence, has it been verified to
be a truth or a myth ? 6. There are various modes and methods of violence, how many of
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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 |