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more to open the doors for a concerted and sustained worldwide synergic effort to replace conflict and confrontation by synthesis and conciliation, and exploitation by equity and fair play.
Need to usher in all-pervading Culture Of Non-Violence.
Patchwork solution would not do. Wars will only beget wars and durable peace - both inner and outer will remain elusive. What the world community needs is an all-pervading culture of non-violence for strengthening the foundation of peace and harmony and overcoming hostility, mistrust and greed.
2500 Years ago, Lord Mahavir, Jain Prophet (Tirthankar) called for practice of non-violence in action in all aspects of individual and community life. He emphasized:
"He who himself hurts the creatures or gets them hurt by others, augments the world's hostility towards
himself"
Late Acharya Sushil Kumarji, the renowned Jain monk while launching a Global Movement for Non-violence at the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992 at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) observed:
“The dawn of non-violence shall usher in an era of peaceful coexistence where the oneness of all religions becomes the foundation stone of the oneness of
humanity".
Jain religion has enshrined AHIMSA (Non-Violence) at the summit of all virtues. Indeed Jain culture has become synonymous with Ahimsa Culture. Acharya Shubhachandra in his celebrated work "Inanarnava" writes:
श्रुयते सर्वशास्त्रेषु सर्वेषु समयेषु च BÉ HINGTUR : alfanuale UNMH 11 13 11
09:--877-44-5177-821-aralacault सत्यशील व्रतादीनां अहिंसा जननी मता।
Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner
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