Bharatiya Chintan ki Parampara me Navin Sambhavanae Part 2

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

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AHIMSA CULTURE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL
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I have tried to approach the subject from two different but non-contradictory and complementary angles, namely, intuitionistic and rational or Logical and pragmatic angle. 'Ishavasyam Idam Sarvam', 'all this existence that is, that moves, that lives and has its being in the vastness of infinity is the inseparable abode of the one supreme power self-existent, self-luminous, Infinite Energy with protein potentialities'. Thisk quotation from the Isha Upanishat, in fact, this first Mantra-potent word of the Upanishat stands for the intuitionistic approach. The second quotation begin. ning with 'Inspite of death...' represents the rational approach. Death, hatred, and darkness have been very much there, they are still there to eradicate life, love, and light.' And yet life, love, and light continue to live and prosper. That is proof positive that they have an edge over their negative opposites. Negatives have no positive existance. Human survival and along with it, life, love, and light survival as a step in human evolution for further progress and greater enlightment.
I would also like to explain here what I mean by the term 'evolution'. It is a biological term and has to be explained in terins of life and all that it means. Life started as a unicallular being; but life went on developing into multicallular organisms and today man is the apex. The characteristic of this development, which is called 'evolution' is that while different types of energies and functions have gone on increasing, bringing in its work more complexity and greater organisation, there is no entropy, no loss of orderliness. The organism as a whole, say, that of man, is one single entity. howsoever complex and multicallular it might be, whatever the number variety of cells and however complicated the
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