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
parochial sense, self-interest in terms of possessions and or power is dominent as against all other interests, Exploitative injustice and constructive violence as that of the haves and have --nots is the rule rather than an exception. Hegemonial ambitions, arms race; piling up of atomic weaponry notwithstanding the awareness that atomic weapons are not defensive and atomic wars are unwinnable the total annual military budgets bulging to 500 billions, are all portents of a global magnitude. If man at this critical juncture fails to mobilise his spiritual resources, his commitment to truth and love for all, and neglects to utilise his rational faculties, there would not be any other opportunity, since humanity would itself have disappeared, Gandhi, with his unerring instinct and intuition in this matter pledged himeself to Truth and non-violence. Satya and Ahimsā, or rather, to Truth through non-violence alone, Satya through Ahimsa alone. His appearance on the human stage at the time that the most suicidal and devastating atomic bomb was in the making is historically also very significant. Gandhi might well be considered as the high priest of Ahimsa-Culture and all that it connotes.
Man today is in transition. He is at that cross roads. He has travelled far enough from the beast that he was and has been, towards manhood on his way to godhood, if that word can signify a very high level of superior truth-conscious existence. His has not being an easy career. He has tried hard to probe into the mysterious powers of matter and harnessed atomic energy. The tragedy is that today he is a slave of his ambitions for power, and is utilising science and technology, in addition to their other uses for human comfort and convenience, for the purpose of domination over his
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