Sramana 2006 04

SR No.: 525058
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 226
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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110 : śramaņa, Vol 57, No. 2/April-June 2006
fields of human life, which totally supports the theory of nonviolence. The analysis of end and means and satyāgraha are the main parts of his method, they supplement each other.
End and Means
Often people lay stress on end. The common people follow the theory - 'The end justifies the means.' Even western socialism has accepted this theory. But Gandhiji has opposed this idea vehemently. According to his ideology the means justifies the end. The means and end cannot be separated. The end is the developed form of means. He has said.
“The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same unavoidable connection between the means and the end as there is between seed and the tree.”15
If the means are pure and proper the end will be naturally ide same.
Satyāgraha
The Hindi word Satyagrha means "Effort for Truth”. It is also named as Passive Resistance, Non Co-operation, Civil Disobedience. As Gandhiji has analyised it “Satyāgraha is to bear pain lovingly after being based on the truth". 16 In practice Satyāgraha may be seen in the following forms.
Non Co-operation - In the view of Gandhiji a man is tortured when he co-operates with the fellow troubling him. So he should not co-operate with him, if he wants to be saved from torture. The non co-operation may be performed as strike, social boycott, picketing etc.
Civil Disobedience - The civil disobedience is the expression of opposition in the form of non-violence or non-military. It is the last form of non co-operation and also too affective and fearful. Civil disobedience should be based on some right theory. It should