Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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I opposed the government's policy, I was only acting as a religious person. I was not using political tactics. However, when the violence occurred, the police used their guns, tear gas, and riot equipment, because they believed in those tactics and not those of the Jain monks.
Later, I was told that the government and some business people who stood to make a lot of money from the slaughter of the cows had hired some evil people from the outside to dress as monks and to start the riot. I became very saddened and upset by this knowledge. But I felt that my intentions and motives in organizing the rally had been pure and innocent of any wrongdoing.
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