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
the cosmos.
Life and death, health and disease, love and hatred, peace and war, calmness and anger face us every moment in life. The question before a rational human being is, with which force should he ally himself. The plain, simple, direct reply this question is that man ought to strengthen the forces of construction as he wants and wills to live a healthy harmonious, integrated, happy life, both as an individual and as a community. The destructive forces are anti-life and to help them is obviously suicidal and against the interest of man. The evolutionary urge in man two dictates to him to shine to live and promote the potentialities inherent in man. This is the raison dectre of AhimsaCulture.
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No other name is greater than that of Einstein in the modern world of science. He was a man of peace and admired Gandhi to the extent of saying that, secracely would people believe that a man called Gandhi in flesh and blood walked on this earth. He regretted that his own discoveries in science were utilised for foging atomic weapons of mass destruction. It is said he wept when he learnt that such weapons were being manufactured. But he is gone, leaving his message of peace and good-will to the distracted world. Dr. Robert Oppenheimer who was responsible for making the first fuisionable atomic bomb in USA wrote relentingly in his diary about the bomb, that it was 'born' for the annihilation of the world. Being an admirer of the Gita he quoted it in is diary saying, 'Kalosmi Lokakshayakrit Pravriddhah'. He tried to delay out of remorse the coming of the Hydrogen Bomb by two years, after the explosion of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. And he suffered for it. He too is gone along with the qualms of
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