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123 Deep thought reveals the point that the price for real peace is the lio of universal brotherhood and mercy. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's observations are significant, "Peace cannot be purchased by comph romise with evil or surrender to it." The brute-inman tries to enjoy without caring for the distress and anguish of others, but the gentleman's view. point keeps in mind the natural and moral rights of al living beings. George Bernard Shaw championed the cause of universal love and justice. He had observed, "If I were an omnipotent despot I should enforce such a distribution of the material conditions of natural vitality as to make my subjects independent of analgesics, intoxicants, stimulants, tobacco, fish, flesh and fowl for their endurance of life.”
Tirthankara Mahavira and others have enlightened us that peace or happiness is only there where the genial and boundless current of compassion and universal love incessantly flows. Killing the innocent or the weak is, in fact, the culture of vultures. It can never be real culture. This is not the proper way to peace.
The message of Mahavira is that miseries evolve out of violence or Himsa. The higher the type of poninjury the greater the peace enjoyed. Peace is not manufactured any where. It is not attained by power or treasures of mighty monarchs or democratic institutions. It is the sublime reward of noble and virtuous life. The virtuous are always happy and peaceful, whether they are poor or friendless or placed in worst circumstances. External environment
