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Śramana, Vol. 57, No. 3-4
July-December 2006
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT OF NON
VIOLENCE
Dr. B. N. Sinha
The external situation in which a man leads his life is known as environment. It is the atmosphere in which a man lives. The environment consists of all things, all happenings around a human being and his relations to them. The environment is the base on which the lives of not only human beings only but all beings depend. The life and environment cannot be separated. Without environment, no life can exist. Therefore for having a good atid healthy life, suitable environment is needed.
The environment may be divided mainly in two classes. 1. Natural Environment
2. Human Environment 1. Natural Environment
The nature itself and the things presented by nature may be considered as natural environment. The natural environment may also be named as physical environment. The earth, water, fire, air and sky are the constituents of physical environment. 2. Human Environment
The human environment consists of all religious, social, economic and political activities done by a man and also by other persons living around him.
So far the relation between environment and non-violence is concerned, it may be observed through the method applied in the * Former Reader, Dept. of Philosophy, M. G. Kashi Vidyapeeth,
Varanasi
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