Training in Nonviolence

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Anuvrat Global Organization

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Training in Nonviolence
Let us seriously think about practical exercises and training. We have seen how human consciousness is changed through practice and training. A big change can ensue if we deliberate on scientific and spiritual causes. I hope the Gandhians will not misunderstand me. The talk of training and practice disappeared with Gandhi's death. Since the talk of exemplifying or putting to practice what Gandhi said was pushed to the background, his words became progressively irrelevant. If the Gandhian principles had been practised and training in their use had been imparted, Gandhi would have remained present in our midst even today in the form of ideology.
He did all kinds of experiments on nonviolence, truth and peace throughout his life. He performed these experiments on himself and he trained other people too. Gandhi was a truly nonviolent person who successfully passed through the ordeal of training and experiments on satyagraha. Therefore, what is needed today is to pay attention to the fact that nonviolence will not grow and develop merely on the basis of statements and lectures until they are practised in daily life.
Acharya Mahapragya expounds the strategies for the inner transformation of an individual
on the second day of the Nonviolence Leadership Training Camp
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