Ahimsa Crisis You Decide

Author(s): Sulekh C Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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Shivamastu Sarvajagtah, Parahitanirata bhavantu bhutaganah Dosah prayantu nasham, sarvatra sukhibhavatu lokkah. Translation: May the entire universe be blessed; may all beings engage in each other's well-being; may all weakness, sickness and faults vanish, may every one and everywhere be healthy, peaceful and blissful. Sarve bhavantu sukhina, sarve santu niramaya. Sarve bhadrani pashiyantu, ma kashchit dukha bhag bhavet. Translation: May there be always happiness. May all see and feel good thoughts. May no one suffer pain and misery. "There are many causes I am willing to die for but no cause I am willing to kill for.” MahatmaGandhi “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living is to be the torture of sentient beings.” Mahatma Gandhi "Let us pray that our food should not be colored with animal blood and human suffering.” Gurudev Chitrabhanuji; a Jain monk.
A POEM & OTHER THOUGHTS ON AHIMSA A poem on ahimsa by Arjunan Subramaniam: Light the flames of compassion, In the altar of your hearts. Unless hatred is answered with love, Until forgiveness arises in the hearts, The chain that binds you to life after life, Will not be cut. And finally, “Thoughts on the Practice of Ahimsa by a Schoolteacher After the Newtown, CT, School Shooting,” by
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An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide