Golden Steps To Salvation

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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मोक्षं ध्रुवं नित्यमहिंसकस्थ
violent.
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Moksham dhruvam nityamahimsakasya.
-Suktimuktavali
Moksha or salvation is certain for one who is non
- सूक्तिमुक्तावली
Ahimsa or non-violence inspires a thrilled sense of the unspeakable potentialities of the soul but without realising this people engage themselves in violent activities. In this world the means of violence are countless and each is more devastating than the other; each is more destructive than the other and each is more dreadful than the other. Man has invented such weapons and destructive devices as the stone-weapons, the lathi, the sword, the spear, the arrow, the gun, the revolver, the atomic bomb, the Neutron bomb, the hydrogen bomb etc. each more destructive than the other. Man has invented these to destroy his fellow human beings. The world has seen the terrible destruction caused by the two world wars of 1914 and 1939. In spite of this, the world seems to be preparing for another world war. At present, in the world there are so many destructive weapons that by using them not only a nation but the whole world with all the living beings in it can be destroyed in a few moments; yet the big nations of the world are engaged in building up their piles of armaments.
Of the nuclear weapons that are there in the world today 95% are possessed by Russia and America and the rest are in the possession of the other nations of the world.
According to one survey everyday one hundred million rupees are being spent on the invention of destructive weapons. If the same amount of money is spent on building hospitals, providing education, providing help to the needy and for such socially useful activities, human beings would attain felicity and prosperity. But who can make the leaders of the selfish nations of the world realise