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Mahâvîra : The Systematizer
not even a glimpse. Gandhiji said three months before his death: "By reason of life-long practice of ahimsa, I claim to be an expert in it, though very imperfect...I see how far I am from a full expression of ahimsa in my life. It is his ignorance of this, the greatest duty of man in the world, which makes him say that in this age non-violence has little scope in the face of violence, whereas I make bold to say that in this age of the Atom Bomb unadulterated non-voilence is the only force that can confound all the tricks put together of violence.
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Fear and violence multiply each other. Fearlessness, and ahimsa go together. No task 2500 years after the Nirvana of Mahâvîra is more urgent and more meaningful than to strengthen our faith in, all to understand, practice and promote, ahimsa. And is this every step, how so small counts.
