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MAHATMA GANDHI AND WORLD PEACE
Prof. Brahmananda Satapathy ઉત્કલ યુનિવર્સિટીના રાજ્યશાસ્ત્ર વિષયના વરિષ્ઠ અધ્યાપક. દેશના રાજકીય પ્રવાહો અને વહેણોના સક્ષમ વિશ્લેષક, ગાંધીજીના જીવન અને કાર્યના ગંભીર અભ્યાસી અનેક પરિસંવાદો, કોન્ફરન્સોના પ્રતિભાગી અનેક શોધપત્રો અને પુસ્તકોના લેખક.
The modern world is facing a multidimensional Gandhi's concepts and practices. The basic crisis; a crisis that poses challenge to each and groundship happens to be "Non-violence". He every aspect of our life. Among the outstanding practiced and prescribed non-violence as a remedy aspects of this crisis are; over militarization, nuclear against all social evils. It is the most ancient eternal proliferation and global reach of arms, values and culture of India. He said on this account, overdevelopment and underdevelopment resulting "I have nothing new to teach you Truth and nonin maldevelopment, a vast number of people violence are as old as hill." Non-violence and Truth suffering from poverty, hunger and marginalization. are two sides of a same coin. Added to these are environmental degradation in (A) Non-violence the forms of abuse and overuse of nature and
Total non-violence consists in not hurting some pollution and growing paucity of resources, denial
other one's intellect, speech or action per own of human rights, gender bias and injustice, crisis in
thought, utterance or deeds and not to deprive some the field of energy, mounting insecurity and violence,
one of his life." In essence, abstinence in toto from terrorism, war and conflicts, drug trafficking, AlDs. violence is non violence. In this context Gandhi Besides, there are corruption, communalism, clarified in an edition of young India. unemployment, regionalism, problems of language,
"..... to hurt someone, to think of some evil unto ethical and moral degradation in private and public
some one or to snatch one's life under anger or life. All these together pose a grave challenge to
selfishness, is violence. In contrast, purest nonthe world. Peace is far away so long as these
violence is an epitome in having a tendency and problems exist.
presuming towards spiritual or physical benefit unto
everyone without selfishness and with pure thought Among the various political ideologies, after cool and clear deliberations... The ultimate democratic governance appears to be best yardstick of violence or non-violence is the spirit because it is this very system which provides behind the action." maximum opportunities of public progress and (B) Non-Violence is perpetual development. People can themselves decide the From beginning unto now man has been mode of their weltare. But, is the democratic system ultimately treading path of non-violence. It came of governance free from above problems? Therefore into existence along with man It is coterminus Gandhian Philosophy is very much contextual today with life. In case, it has not with man from the very on this accord.
beginning, there might have been self-dom by man. Mahatma Gandhi treated his individual life in Besides there has been gradual enhancement in accordance with his ideas. He said "my life is my development and proximity in spite of presence of message". Therefore Gandhism is a mixture of various obstacles and hurdles.
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