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to the entire humanity. This aspect was deeply appreciated both from philosophical as well as spiritual angles.
Along with Dr Narendra P. Jain and Gautam Oswal, when Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj went to see the giant statue of Lord Christ on the highest hill top of Rio de Janeiro, he was deeply moved and felt a kind of divine inspiration to launch a World movement of Non-violence from Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the historic Earth Summit. The movement will arouse spiritual consciousness among human beings through the medium of Nonviolence and show the way for a lasting, soul satisfying and lifesustaining solution of problems connected with environment and development, progress and prosperity, contentment and achievement. Only through the practice of true and wholesome "Ahimsa' (Non-violence) in thought, practice, word and deed could the world sustain and strengthen peaceful coexistence, codevelopment and co-prosperity. Violence could never lead to a durable victory.
Guruji made the announcement at the plenary session of the Sacred Earth Gathering. He declared that he was launching the World Movement of Non-violence for Peace and Environment from here and now. Warm clap of hands from the assembled distinguished participants greeted the announcement. Deeply moved and inspired by Guruji's expose of the need to propagate Non-violence, Dr Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of U.N. and presently Chancellor of the U.N. University for Peace at Costa Rica announced his decision to become a cofounder of the Movement.
Mr. Maurice Strong, the Secretary General of the Earth Summit (UNCED II - U.N. Conference on Environment and Development), welcomed the launching of the Movement of Nonviolence and observed that, “From the country of Mahatma Gandhi comes yet another invaluable initiative which should receive the endorsement of the governments and humanity”. The renowned
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