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ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA ON TRAINING IN NON-VIOLENCE
Non-violence is the key to life as it prevails in the Nature. It is par-excellence in the Religion also (fgar :). Pages and pages are abound in the glory of non-violence. It is a complete concept that can not be partialised in the terms of countries, cultures and times. But this way of life is not getting due attention with the needed strength, it is because of the fact that as is commonly obsorved, two thieves or dacoits can join in a joint venture, but not two saints or seers.
The present day organisation and concept of economy has turned the individual into hedonist. 'Earn a lot and enjoy yourself to the full'. More production, more acquisation, more gratificationthese three have become the ruling maxims of life. Such an approach has made some people hedonistic, it has rendered others poor and miserable. The pleasure-seeking approach has really become a problem.
Some think that there is no violence in rich countries. It is a great illusion to think that non-violence bides with prosperity. Wealthiness may decrease violence born of destitution, but the material cause of violence is man's brain. Without changing the human intellect there is no possibility of establishing non-violence. Action follows thought, first an idea arises in the brain. Unless the brain is properly trained, the talk of non-violence society makes no
sense.
Non-passessiveness and non-violence are spiritual values. Authenticity and honesty are moral values. These become established only with the adoption of the purity of means approach. In others words, it may be said that Anekant or the relative approach is the value of values. It is right vision, without it, right conduct is unimaginable. Therefore ground work of training in non-violence is the right vision, to establish non-violence without a change in one's out look is tantament to a man wanting to raise a crop without sowing the seed.
For sowing the seeds of non-violence seeds of non-violence is to be found in every Tulsi-Prajña, Ladnun; Vol. 23 No. 4
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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 |