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
negative in form, have developed positive meanings and are identified with sympathy, love, identification with the 'other', service, suffering, sacrifice for the 'other' or for the Truth, for the object and or cause towards which we adopt an attitude of Ahimsa. Once when I proposed to Gandhiji to adopt the word 'love' for Ahimsa, he said that though Ahimsa is the purest kind of love, the word 'love, has other meanings, So, he said, he was satisfied with the word Ahimsa, since he had grow with it, but he had no objection if others preferred the word 'love, in the christian sense. Thus in the present context Ahimsa means an attitude of constructive love towards all, with a view to the good and all-sided development, Sarvodaya of the whole of humanity,
I am using the word 'culture here in its widest possible comprehensive sense to include spirituality, religion, philosophy, socio-economic and political systems, literature and arts, customs and manners, in fact every activity of human beings in which they have exceeded and added and or improved upon more animal existence. Ahimsa-Culture would therefore mean an orientation to human activity and human affairs which is dominantly charged with love and altruistic attitudes towards all.
By human survival I do not mean mere survival for the sake of survival, here survival is not of much value if it does not lend itself to the progressive expansion and elevation of the human consciousness, culminating in blissful illumination of the highest order. I have used the words "human survival', as the background today is one of a universal apprehension of human extinction, in the wake of a nuclear holocaust, which is the logical result of the suicidal policy, man is following.
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