Bharatiya Chintan ki Parampara me Navin Sambhavanae Part 2

Author(s): Radheshyamdhar Dvivedi
Publisher: Sampurnanand Sanskrut Vishvavidyalaya Varanasi

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भारतीय चिन्तन की परम्परा में नवीन सम्भावनाएं
undescribable and beyond normal experience of the presentday human being. But about mundane truth, truth of daily life, there would be and are differences, not only between different persons and groups of persons, but even in one individual's mind, there are differences from day to day and from time to time about many a thing that affect our lives. Just as in the case of 'freedom' every one is free, no doubt. But freedom has always to be limited and regulated by equal freedom to the 'other'. Similarly everyone is free to arrive at his own 'truth' by the tools he is invested with by nature and enviromment, but equal freedom has to be given to the 'other'. It is in this respect that Gandhi has made the greatest contribution by declaring that Ahimsa-Non-violence, Love should be our sole, singular, and unexceptionable guide in asserting ones own 'truth', and in ones attempt to live and establish ones own 'truth' as the norm for others. One should be willing and ready to suffer oneself for ones own'truth' lest the truth is on the 'other' side. To impose by force or fraud or coercion or any other means ones own 'truth' on the 'other' is anathema to Gandhian conception of truth', and its votaries. The propagation and establishment of truth' has to be through love and what love dictates. The observance of this law of love lifts man from the category of the brute and takes him to the domain of mankind. To Gandhi, observance of the law of Non-violence in the propagation of 'truth of ones own finding was as important as the finding of 'truth' itself. But that is a subject by itself and consideration of it takes us to a vast field of thought on Ahimsa Culture and to the real evolution of man from his present status to what could be called supermanhood or the next higher stage towards divinity.
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