Jainism Abroad

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

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FRONT WARS Being fought between the Brave soldiers & armies only and not with the innocent public. However, all of them were also not pardonable in the Human History. After all, wars were wars full of violence & were to be condemned for ever. While today with the changed times, the Wars developing into huge Nuclear weapons are clearly not being fought between the Armies & Soldiers only, on the contrary they are going to be disastrous for the people and peace craving humanity and as such VIOLENCE, WEAPONS & WARS have become the major problems of the humanity, which deserve and need early and immediate dissolution without even a day's delay.
The clue or alternative of it lies only in the JAINA philosophy of Anekantavad, Live & Let Live, Hindu Philosophy of 'VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM' & GANDHIAN practicality of its practiced & proven selection and application of Nonviolence, which has been very rightly interpreted & defined by Gandhi's spiritual Heir Acharya Vinoba Bhave saying :
SCIENCE + NON-VIOLENCE = SARVODAYA or RISE & WELFARE OF ALL.
SCIENCE - NON-VIOLENCE = DISASTER OF ALL.
Let us pray in the words of Tagore, as depicted in this Rabindra Sangeet, addressed to the Apostles of Non violence like Lord Buddha, Lord Mahaveera and Mahatma Gandhi to incarnate themselves once again, to extend their compassionate heart and hand for saving the humanity, for freeing this beautiful earth from the blemishes of Bloodsheds and Blood-Baths and from the clutches of VIOLENCE, WEAPONS & WAR DRUNK - POLITICIANS OF THE WORLD -----
"HINSHAY UNMATTA PRITHVI, NITTYA NITHUR DWANDA, GHOR KUTIL PANTH TAR, LOBH JATIL BANDHA....... HINSHAY
(GEET PANCHSHATI) -
Let us sing India's eternal prayer of World peace :
"SHIVAMASTU SARVA JAGATAH " & "SARVETRA SUKHINO SANTU"
11 OM SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTIHI|||