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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Vol. XXIII, No. 4
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and similarly the acceptance of injustice is also a weakness. Gurudev says that if something just is demanded, it should be acce ded to, otherwise surrendering to force or a show of it is almost like killing of a principle. Violence can be defeated by goodwill, friendship. love, compassion, and use of force, compulsion or any sort of pressure, even if thay may be non-violent cannot be truly called non-violence, some elements of violence are present in it. Nonviolent resistence can succeed only with the spirit of sacrifice and absence of dread, because even violence itself cannot succeed unless some spirit of sacrifice is there. As wars are also won only when soliders are ready to lay down their lives. Being a disciplined "Sadhak", Gurudev Tulsi has conducted various experiments of nonviolent resistence. In religious conferences of calcutta, where misundestanding had reached climax, he in Jaipur during his chaturmas started Ekasan Tap (a sort of partial hunger strike) and made it clear that my vow for it is not for creating any pressure, because pressure of any kind is equivalent to violence. But if it does not produce change of heart, I will go upto still harder steps of penitence." With this non-violent resistence, a harmonious atmosphere of love and goodwill was created.
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Ahimsa Sarvbhom
As a result of the devastation from 2nd world war, various international organisations grew up, such as UNO, Institute for Peace and Justice, International Peace Research Institute, Shanti Sena etc. In the same tradition Gurudev Tulsi started Ahimsa Sarvbhom under the Anuvrat Movement, thus creating a platform from which the voice of non-violence could be spread in all directions. Man was trying for peace and non-violence on one side and manufacuring and spreading destructive weapons on the other side. Gurudev Tulsi tried to break this impasse through the Ahimsa Sarvbhom Movement, which he considers a big revolution
Mr. Janardan Rai Nagar of Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur has appreciated this movement saying that in present day hard circumstance, it is essential that voice of non-violence should rise, joint conscience must awake to its need and Ahimsa Sarvbhom is full-filling that need After Gandhiji, he has done a poineers work in the
field,
Addressing a working group of Ahimsa Sarvbhom and making clear its object, Gurudev Tulsi said that he was of firm belief that violence was an accepted feature of human society, it always had