Tulsi Prajna 1998 01

SR No.: 524594
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

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these can be met with Non-violence ? 7. If traditions carry on with violence by arms, why is it not so with non-violence ? If on seeing an arms bearing person we are attracted to it, is it the same while seeing a Non-violent person ? if not, why not?
If the fields related to such puestions can be researched, he is sure that some new facts of Non-violence will emerge.
Fourth impediment is the development of self sacrificing spirit. A non-violent person does not think in terms of whether he will win, whether he will survive. Instead his language is; let all live; let all develop.
It can be summarised that till the brain and intellect is not trained, the remnants of violent thinking will persist there. Without removing those "Sanskars" (Previous memories), raising of slogans and organisation of seminars, will achieve nothing. If forces of nonviolence organise and conduct research in these areas, there is no doubt non violent way of life will settle with a primary. Practice of Non-violence
In scriptures, pages and pages are abound in glory of non-violence-Ahimsa. In the present times, Gurudev Tulsi is respected as next Mahatma Gandhi, as the person who was trying to establish a non-violent order of life and society.
Though he lived a complete non-violent life, he was practical enough to realize and admit that all the problems of the world could not be solved by non-violence alone. But at the same time that also did not mean that it was weak or useless in itself. There is force in nonviolence, but the ground for it needs leveling and preparing. Just as hollow ground does not produce anything, similarly without suitable preparation, non-violence alone will not produce much. He answers the question of where should it be practised in an innovative way. He says "I do not believe it is a matter of temple or mosque or gurudwara only. It should be practised in all aspects of the practical life, such as business and politics—the primary field of human activity.
In modern times, there is something lacking somewhere in its somewhere in its propagation or usc, that it is not being so effective, perhaps one reason is that we expound its negative values only, perhaps through expounding its positive aspect, we can make it moro practical.
To those, who consider non-violence as a useless creed. he says, "today violence commands arms power, training, press, experiment, huge finance for publicity etc., if the same amount of energy, timo and resources were spent in expounding, propagating and training