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people that the root for violent thought and emotion leading to violent action lies in a variety of factors that create imbalance and disharmony. Briefly they are:
(1) Mental Tension
(2) Differences in perception and thoughts
(3) Emotional imbalance
(4) Imbalance in body chemistry
(5) Imbalance in human relations arising from inequalities and exploitation
(6) Gap between the rich and the poor and ill-balanced social
structure.
(7) Arms race and craving for more and more destructive
weapons.
(8) Ill-balanced political structures, system and ideology.
(9) Casteism and racial discrimination.
(10) Communalism and religious fanaticism.
(11) Superiority and exploitative complex of human being leading to degradation of environment and endangering of other life species.
Unless we analyze to root causes of violence in their clearest perspectives, we would find it hard to mitigate it.
II. The Basic Approach
Let us understand what 'Ahimsa' is. It is not merely negation or eradication of physical violence. It is much more. Ahimsa is a positive and constructive concept and not a negative and destructive one (which violence is). Ahimsa is a synonym for love, compassion, tolerance, co-existence, cooperative peaceful interdependence and synthesis. These are not theoretical concepts, but in different situations they are Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner ★ (239)
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