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Violence in the context....
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All religions of India have dis-favoured war with a purpose of snatching away the ‘right to live of others. Yet if we have a glance at world history, we would find that innumerable battles have been fought in ancient times, medieval times also and even in modern times, we see that big battles are being fought. It is most surprising that majority of wars have been waged in the name of religions ! Thus, an inseparable knot has been knitted between religion and war.
The U.S.A. has blown the trumptet of war in order to crush for ever the terrorism. The Talibans have raised a crusade in the name of thwarting the attack on Islam Dharma. In India also, the war-trumpet is being blown against Pakistan for sovereignty and for abolishing the terrorism. As a result, many drums of world-war will be heard.
We get guidance from Indian philosophical systems the Ramayan and the Mahabharat as to what is prudence, what is morality and what is the religion of non-violence in war. Bhagwan Mahavir and Lord Buddha were called incarnations of nonviolence and compassion. They have always talked of destroying the violence. In their times also, many battles had been fought. But how and what the kings and generals who were the followers of theirs, behaved at those times of war, will be very interesting topics for observations.
The wise persons have demarcated certain levels in order to understand non-violence. They have divided violence into four classes. These levels depend on their situations. The violence which is practiced deliberately with some special determination or with a definite resolve or intention, is planned or a 'willed' violence. This is aggressive violence. It is to be avoided by everybody. Willed violence or planned violence is in consequence to revenge, hatred or jealousy, the outcome of which is always
