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SHRAMAN MAHAVIR
external with the internal, gross with the subtle, tangible with the intangible
Is the society that follows Mahavira comprehensive in its approach? A theoretical analysis won't offer an answer to this question An analysis of difference of thought-process, hatred and personal or sectarian vanity will offer the solution The thinking of people, even in the same society is diverse So long as differences cancel out one another the people tolerate one another. When the vanities flare up, the intellectual difference's cause mass-asseverations Mass-hatred and vanities cause differences and distances in such hostile circumstances The intellectual attempts are not fruitful to effect any practical reconciliation Non-violent reconciliation alone can bring about an amatory mutuality The doctrine of reconciliation enunciated by Lord Mahavira has an intellectual content on the material plane and a non-violent one of the human plane
It was certainly a Herculean task to initiate intellectual and behavioural reconciliation through non-violent means
