________________ Courtney Schlosser is a professor of philosophy at Worcester State College in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He was born in 1937 and he received his doctoral degree from Boston University in 1969. He is a teacher, writer, and world traveller. He lives with his wife Susan Coles in Barre, Massachusetts. This is the second edition of The Light of Nonviolence. It celebrates the life, teachings and memory of the late H. H. Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj or "Guruji." Guruji was a great Jain teacher. Jainism is a religious philosophy based upon a nonviolent way of living or ahimsa. It is practiced by millions in India and elsewhere. Guruji was born in 1926, ordained as a monk at fifteen and became an Acharya or Great Teacher in 1980. He became internationally famous as a religious leader and peace worker. He founded the World Fellowship of Religions. Before his death in 1994, he had travelled to over forty countries, met with world leaders, and established ashrams on nearly every continent. The forty stories making up The Light of Nonviolence express a unique vision of nonviolent philosophy. They describe interhuman, interspecies, international, interpsychic, and environmental relationships. Human
