Training in Nonviolence

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

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Effects of Attachment to Wealth
When Acharya Tulsi started the Anuvrat Movement, he deliberated on these basic problems as to how one can behave morally while earning money. One of the vows was, "I will not behave immorally." The second was about the restraint on accumulation - "I will not acquire more than this." This used to be a resolution both of a Jain layman or upasak and of one who accepted the code of Anuvrat. Once Jaiprakash Narayan, an eminent Gandhian leader of India, visited, and we talked together for three consecutive days in Mumbai to lay down the limit of individual ownership but we couldn't arrive at any conclusion. In the end it appears that society does not agree on restraining or limiting consumption: "I will not consume more than this." An atmosphere of nonviolence can be built and a problem can be solved if three things are adopted: pure means of earning money, morality and a limit to the acquisition of money. We will have to go into the depth of all these topics while deliberating during training in nonviolence.
Keeping in mind all these things it is necessary for people working in this area that they find out a solution of the problem by thinking deeply about the economics of violence and that of nonviolence during the period of training in nonviolence and even after that.
Nonviolence trainees in a meditative posture
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