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PEACE THROUGH NON-VIOLENCE
[Speech at the Jain temple in Washington D.C. (U.S.A.) July, 2002]
It is a tragic irony that while we wax eloquent and quote chapter, verse and scripture on peace and non-violence, violence is escalating all over the world; violence is escalating in our thoughts, actions and expression on a worldwide scale. It is reflected in the way we are treating Earth's resources, environment, other living species and finally our own fellow human beings.
After having two world wars in the first half of the 20th century, the world may have made progress towards peace (howsoever cold) among nations, but violence is a much vaster scourge threatening children, women, families, youth, elderly, cities, nations and the air, seas, oceans, nature and living species of our planet.
Escalating Violence of Resource Abuse
On the one hand thanks to scientific and technological advances, communications revolution and extensive discoveries about the mysteries of Nature, humanity finds itself in the kindergarten of an entirely new age of promise and hope. On the other hand, humanity finds itself on the brink of universal disaster. There is threat to the very survival of universe because of the rape of the Earth and devastation of its environment by greedy unscrupulous exploitative and ungrateful humans - that is all of us - the supposedly better, more civilized and superior among all living species of this universe!
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