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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run, the path of non-violence may be hard to traverse but ultimately only in this lies the salvation of society. Non violen: is the force which has kept man from becoming a beast. Gurudev Tulsi has tried to make it a people's cult and movement "because" says he “the use of non-violence in social ethics is the foundation of morality. A person who cannot feel the friendship towards others, cannot be moral also". A simple proof to substantiate it is that desipte the disparities of big and small in various forms in society, there still is peace and stability-otherwise if it were not so, a system of snatch and grab would have ensued bringing anarchy in its wake. The common saying that non-violence does not fullfil the needs of life and therefore cannot be a success, is full of pitfalls in social behaviour.
He (Gurudev Tulsi) preaches that man should not become unrestrained, neither should he start thinking of himself as above others in society and in the case of all these negative tendencies, non-violence can play and does play, in fact, a major restraining role To counter the argument that without violence one cannot carry the normal duty of earning and living a life nor can one protect one self or one's property and life and honour, Lord Mahavir has said that you can start violence from that point onwards where non-violence becomes an impediment, but with the provision that you do not become cruel or aggressive.
Gurudev Tulsi advises average individual to follow the middle path. If violence is a mode of life, then non-violence is a need of pure life. Non-violence is a path for reaching the ideal when violence becomes a way of life, when it becomes a danger to society,
To create a non-violent society is a vision of Gurudev, he is on it through Anuvrat Movement for the last 50 years On 22 April 1950, in a press conference at Delhi, he addressed himself to the problem and said that he wanted to create and develop a non-violent society and to destroy the collective violence, which is the cause of basic unrest and laid dowa certain don'ts for it. 1. Not to kill any person on account of caste, religion, community
and social distinction. 2. Not to kill any innocent person and to have a feeling of oneness
with all. 3. Not to attack any differiog community or group or Nation. 4. Not to develop the tendency of hoarding more than the require.
ment of life,