Great Warrior Of Ahimsa

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

Page 22

(vii) Even my Eldest brother had natural acquaintance with Srimad Rajchandraji's Literature since he was working under Shri Manilal Revashankar Jhaveri, the donor of Bombay's Mani Bhavan (Gandhiji's residence) and son of Srimad Rajchandraji's Jewellery Business Partner. My youger and elder brothers both died pre-maturely and the Eldest one recently. My brother-in-law was also jailed during Freedom Movement at Yeravada-Poona and my dedicated father-in-law was also with Mahatma Gandhiji carrying on his Constructive Khadi work from Kashmir to Kanyakumari along with my mother-in-law and later settled down at Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati Ahmedabad working for years together organising Khadi, Gramodyoga and Village Industries activities. Their worthy daughter, my life companion, also an M.A. and Sangit Visharada, has shouldered all of my Literary, Artistic, Musical and Philosophical pursuits pertaining to Mahatma Gandhiji and Srimad Rajchandraji througout. Much more remarkable and noteworthy contribution to our Life-Mission is of all of our Five Most-worthy Daughters, especially by Extremely Illustrious and Industrious Great Scholarly Soul of Seven Awards Winning, Seven Books Writing Gold-Médalist First Class First Post Graduate, Eldest daughter kum. PARUL (*)) who also died in a Motor Accident prematurely like my two brothers, leaving behind a trail of continuous chain of tragedies of my family Life.......! This entire family background is just to narrate the relevance of the Subject Theme matter circling around the ideclogies of Srimad Rajchandraji and Mahatma Gandhiji in one way or the other. Coming back to the theme, especially on Wars and Violence and their after-effects, I have to present an interesting reference of a unique story. It renders another perspective, worththinking, than Tolstoy's otherwise worthy and world-acclaimed novel "War and Peace". In course of my humble studies, writings, editings and translations of Srimad Rajchandraji, I recently came across his previously-referred follower and my Mystic Master Y.Y. Sri Sahajanand Ghanji's interesting, mysterious and suggestive true story. It depicts the tragicmost history of unworthy Great Violent Wars, their aftermath and fruitlessness for entire Humanity. This significant story was provingly and revealingly indicated by the Great Master during his Meditative Walking tours (Pada-Vihar) before some forty years in Bihar while mostly observing MAUNA (Silence) to my Scholar friend Late Shri Ganesh Lalwani, the Editor of Calcutta's "Jain Journal". Retold by the latter, it is titled as NAG KI ATMAKATHA (*K) in Hindi, which I am privileged to translate into English after long personal discussions with the late author-friend, just a few days before his death sometime back at Calcutta, under the title of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COBRA. (now include in Sy' SAHAJ-WMV tekur This worth-studying suggestive story aptly narrates the heart-breaking horrible results of India's Great Kalinga War. These are suffered collectively as well as individually, by its chieftain's soul suffering till today in form of several tyrranyful continuous chain like births and deaths as a Cobra as a punishment for such heinuous crimes committed against the vast humanity. Since this War of Kalinga had then killed and crushed lacs of soldiers and innocent people through the huge Mighty Weapons of that time such as "Mahashil Kantaka“ and "Ratha Moosala" etc.), this worth-analysing, worth-lesson-deriving story, in the end, suggests and points its fingers at, severest KARMA Punishment to the preent-day CRIMINALS OF HUMANKIND, the Nuclear Weapons, Manufacturers, order Politicians and Bombarders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other places. It ultimately shows supremacy and need of the Age for implementation of Non-Violence by replacing such wars with the Non-Violent ones. Such a change of ways and means through change of heart is suggested here in this small meaningful play through its developing characters, especially the Hero, the Space War Chief Major. This possibility was suggested by the humble author of these
(*)) "PROFILES OF PARUL" By self. (*K) Collection of Stories "BARSAT KI RAAT" By Ganesh Lalwani.