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end. If the armament producing countries resolve today not to export the weapons manufactured by them, the dangers of war will automatically end.
Contradictory Policies It is both paradoxical and surprising about today's diplomacy that, on the one hand, a nation is talking about treaties and agreements and, on the other, the same nation is supplying weapons to the parties engaged in fighting each other. A country is the mediator of peace and also provides encouragement to arms race by supplying weapons. This dual policy itself is the mother of violence and unrest
Who Will Eradicate Poverty? Everybody has the aspiration to become rich. However, big and large factories cannot make anybody rich. The machines, made of steel, cannot eradicate poverty from the world. Poverty will be eradicated with the principle of real swadeshi. Man should be able to live his life in peace with the limited, small aspirations. For this, it is not necessary to take the help of machines, robots and computers.
Laotse was going somewhere. In the forest, he met a woman. who was crying. Laotse stopped and asked, “Sister, why are you crying?” The woman replied, "Sir, the leopard has eaten my son; not only my son, he has also eaten my husband." Laotse asked, “Then why do you live in this forest.” She explained, “Because there is no cruel ruler here and there is peace here. The wild beasts do harm only sometimes, but we are at least free from the tyranny of the ruler all the time."
Man wants peace. If that itself gets destroyed, then happiness, prosperity and joy are of no avail. Today's economic theories may produce the material means. These means cannot provide real. satisfaction and inner happiness. The need today is to introspect and to re-evaluate the economic theories. In the context of non-violence and peace as the leading guideposts, this re-evaluation alone will provide the real understanding of the need and usefulness of the economics of non-violence and peace.
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