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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brethren. It is this aspects of his activities which is jeopardising human survival. No amount of sophistication, talk of ones own defence, balance of power and terror, treaties Salt I and II can hide or camouflage the naked fact of the danger in which humanity finds itself today. Gandhi is not alone in calling halt to this madness and advising human beings to take to the path of love and friendliness. It was not he who wrote the Constitution of the United Nations Organizations. World without war' was a call given by the war-lords and the significant sculpture in front of the building of the UNO. of the sword to be beaten into a ploughshare, is a representation of the great saying in the Bible of the christians.
It is true that Gandhi gave Ahimsa-culture its shape and form by not merely preaching but by scruplously practising it throughout his eventful life and finally sealing its authenticity by his own martyrdom. But he often said that the principles he stood for and the culture he embodied were both as old as the hills. Even so, he added something to the principles and that was the method, the manner, and the detailed technique of making the principles operative. That something was Satyagrah, adherence to truth at the cost of ones life but with love in ones heart for even the wrong-doer and the aggressor.
Now let us see what are the sources culture of almost 'aggressive love', if such be appropriate, its strength and sanction, finally its roots in the science of today.
To the Vadic Rishis, the sun was the symbol of all power and the source of not only all life but also of all consciousness
परिसंवाद - ३
and origin of this an expression can its rationale, and